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pistolero@p@fsebugoutzone.org
Resident hacker, leader of the fsebugoutzone.org coup of the FSE Autonomous Zone, BOFH of freespeechextremist.com, and former admin of FSE before the establishment of the FSE Autonomous Zone. Launching a guerilla war against myself from this bunker.
I'm not angry with you, I'm just disappointed.
I am physically in Los Angeles but I exist in a permanent state of 3 a.m.
I have dropped a bytebeat album, feel free to DM me for a download code or a link to a tarball: https://finitecell.bandcamp.com/album/villain . There is a chiptunes album there, too.
Revolver is coming: https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/revolver-kickoff.html . Witness the apotheosis: https://fsebugoutzone.org/apotheosis (I am now whoring: 1BZz3ndJUoWhEvm1BfW3FzceAjFqKTwqWV )
War has changed: https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/update-and-roadmap.html
The usual alt if FSE is down: @p@bae.st or @p@shitposter.world or @p@nerv.st. (If all of those servers are down, maybe I will verify that I'm me by signing the bio with the @warrantcanary key.)
Joined: 2026-04-18 07:37:02
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pistolero@p@fsebugoutzone.org (2026-04-19 06:47:35)
@silverpill @phnt Okay, well, to be fair, the timestamp on the "Scope of the socialhub policy" post is August 1, 2023, and the "PhotoDNA Attestation extension" is from August 4, but I think that was possibly preemptive, because he posted this on August 18:
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/scope-of-the-socialhub-policy/3506/9
> Thanks. So, if I have a problem with how someone is behaving in PRs on codeberg, what do I do next?
And then in https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/scope-of-the-socialhub-policy/3506/12 and https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/scope-of-the-socialhub-policy/3506/13 , he made it explicit that this was about the PhotoDNA discussion.
And he directly retreats into "But think of the optics of not thinking of the children!"
> I ended up withdrawing the PR. I had adapted the proposal in the Stanford Internet Observatory’s Child Safety report into a FEP to start the discussion process. I was attacked personally in the comments, and the FEP wasn’t allowed to be merged. I don’t think it helped our movement to have such vigorous opposition to developing CSAM filtering standards.
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pistolero@p@fsebugoutzone.org (2026-04-19 06:35:44)
@silverpill @phnt
> Curiously, Gleason was supportive of the proposal
Is that curious?
> Also, some strange things started to happen in the aftermath of closing that PR. I started seeing vague posts expressing moderation concerns on Codeberg and SocialHub (in this thread, for example: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/scope-of-the-socialhub-policy/3506). People suddenly started talking about adding a CoC, etc etc. But every time I asked what this is about, there was silence.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
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pistolero@p@fsebugoutzone.org (2026-04-18 16:22:12)
@silverpill Oh, shit! I remember his name now, yeah.
Wonder why they have just a photo of his head. Was there something written there before?
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pistolero@p@fsebugoutzone.org (2026-04-18 10:45:37)
@silverpill
> This is a good analysis, and I can confirm that there is indeed some coordination between the organizations and people you mentioned.
:bigbosssalute: Thank ye.
> I wouldn't call it a conspiracy, though.
I'm a fuckin' lunatic, I'll call it one.
> I know some of them well enough to conclude that it is a not a single organization, but a loose group.
The thing is they put out tendrils without acknowledging the coordination or any other kind of transparency about who decided what and when and why. Like, Seirdy puts out his receipts, IFTAS just declares things and then calls people enemies of progress and says "Well, you can't just have a website where people say whatever they want": this behavior is as good as an acknowledgement of an agenda that they don't want to publicize.
> others seem to be sincere in their convictions.
Oh, yeah, I mean, I can acknowledge that. I think a lot of them are sincere in their convictions the way Bob McNamara was, though. "Taquiyya is praxis." I don't doubt that there are some that hear these things they're saying and agree with them and push them.
> - https://about.iftas.org/yoel/
Am I missing something? It's just a photo of the guy's head.
> Remember this guy? Given the timing, I suspect that some of these projects were supposed to be sinecures for former Twitter employees.
That is interesting.
> - https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/140
> This is a draft of a FEP about mandatory CSAM scanning. As one of the FEP repo maintainers, I immediately raised concerns about privacy, centralization, etc. That made me persona non grata at W3C.
*Very* interesting.
Evan Prodromou, "Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation." says:
> This conversation is not very fruitful, so I'm withdrawing the PR. I'm going to rework this proposal and submit it to the SocialCG directly instead.
And Jaz shows up as well. Very interesting conversation; worth reading.
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pistolero@p@fsebugoutzone.org (2026-04-18 04:50:38)
:globalistlocated: Lotta fluoride moving through the glowieverse. Welcome to Friday Hell. Hold onto your :manhattan3: while I poke the global surveillance bear. :terryno:
TL;DR: :glowing::glowinthedark::globalistlocated::plasticbottle::fluoride::drinkfluoride::manhattan3: INDEPENDENT FEDERATED TRUST AND SAFETY (but first I talk about mirroring for a couple of paragraphs)
A lot of the URLs can be mirrored to your instance locally and read/replied to/reposted on your instance without making you look at the glowie servers. Paste the URLs into the search bar, they'll show up on your instance. This should probably be easier in most FEs.⁰
:zerocool::acidburn::lordnikon: You know what's better than archive.today links? Mirroring the shit onto a few dozen fedi instances. You put, e.g., https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/iftas-funding-crisis/ into the search bar, it is mirrored to your instance. If you reply to it or repost it (or you are on Pleroma and you smash dat like), it is mirrored to instances where someone follows you. :phantomphreak::plague::cereal:
:glowing: IFTAS is making another push for centralizing fedi. IFTAS is a surveillance/steering organization that has enough overlap with Newsmast, the Social Web Foundation, Oliphant, FediMod, indieweb.social, hachyderm.io, that they are effectively the same organization. (Sockpuppets are bad when you're LITERALLY HARASSING JOURNALISTS but it is fine to use orgs as sockpuppets. These people spin up 501(c)(3)s faster than most of us spin up domains. The orgs are, not coincidentally, all based in .us/.de/.uk/.ca.) Here's who they are: https://about.iftas.org/advisory/ .
:glowinthedark: The organizations get government/corporate funding through organizations like nlnet or the Social Web Foudnation ( https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/03/27/defederation-on-the-fediverse/ ) or the Ford Foundation through the DIIF. They use this sort of thing as a mechanism to pay themselves, so Newsmast "buys" indieweb.so
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