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   touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 23:10:04 JST touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified:

   • pistolero
   @p check this out.
   4chan got hacked. of note: entire site has 12k active users on this admin panel screenshot
   
   so. it's about 1/1000 the size of pinterest
   (using some general assumptions)
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 23:10:16 JST pistolero

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     @fluffy Holy shit. Yeah, I'm reading the thread.
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     touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 23:10:22 JST touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified:

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     @p ah, hold on. that's just one of the boards. okay, that makes more sense
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     Kucing Goreng (stelo@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 23:34:15 JST Kucing Goreng

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     @fluffy @p i feel sorry for the jannies, they do it for free and now they are going to get stalked and harassed hard because they wanted to take child abuse media off boards about anime and programming
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 23:34:37 JST pistolero

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     • Kucing Goreng
     @stelo @fluffy Even the ones with .gov emails? :smug7:
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     Kucing Goreng (stelo@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 23:51:48 JST Kucing Goreng

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     @p @fluffy I can see .edu but no .gov -- https://media.freespeechextremist.com/rvl/full/9ea519dbfb12032a7110779cf34dec76be37c5f96eff666edee84c0664517117?name=emails.txt
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 23:57:40 JST pistolero

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     • Kucing Goreng
     @stelo @fluffy I think those are the mailfence users.
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     touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 02:46:39 JST touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified:

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     @stelo @p cool
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 02:47:18 JST pistolero

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     • Kucing Goreng
     @fluffy @stelo Per an old leak, 100% of the /b/ jannies were FBI agents.
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     touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 04:24:42 JST touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified:

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     • Kucing Goreng
     @p @stelo i believe it. do you still have the leak?
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 04:25:01 JST pistolero

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     • Kucing Goreng
     @fluffy @stelo It was screenshat in that thread, one of the attachments I posted has it.
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     Kucing Goreng (stelo@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 04:25:11 JST Kucing Goreng

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     @fluffy @p the official story was that there were no jannies for /b/ only global mods and admins could handle /b/
     
     the leaks suggest that if people are reported for violating US law and mods agree (referred to as GR1 internally) there is a process of sending all relevant info to LEO easily
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 04:26:04 JST pistolero

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     • Kucing Goreng
     @stelo @fluffy Do you think that, with the recent weaponization of those channels for "combating misinformation", that was the extent of it?
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     touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 04:29:46 JST touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified:

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     @stelo @p im asking for the stuff not hearsay
     it's fine if you don't have it. most people don't read the primary sources and prefer journalists anyway, so you're normal.
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     Kucing Goreng (stelo@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 04:32:48 JST Kucing Goreng

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     @fluffy @p im just giving context for "what was known" -- any hard facts past that are definitely of note!
     
     " 100% of the /b/ jannies were FBI agents." could mean that (a) all of the global moderators, people internally granted access to policing /b/, were confidential human sources (i.e., "agents") or it could mean that (b) there was a special group of jannies for /b/ who were literal employees of DOJ with fbi.gov email addresses or similar.
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     touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 04:34:34 JST touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified:

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     • Kucing Goreng
     @stelo @p so you didn't see any real information and are reciting this, with complete confidence, based on some 99 layer telephone game.
     got it.
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     Kucing Goreng (stelo@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 04:58:56 JST Kucing Goreng

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     @p @fluffy
     
     This is armchair speculation but if I were DOJ I would either (A) demand root access to server or (B) employ admins, especially the unique "manager" RAPEAPE for 4chan-related work, and otherwise leave the platform to its own devices. (He -- RAPEAPE -- was discussed in depth by VICE for playing a special role in turning 4chan "more racist" -- https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-man-who-helped-turn-4chan-into-the-internets-racist-engine/ )
     
     There are so many stories of criminal informants being given a blind pass to criminal activity as long as they throw other people under the bus that I won't bother citing the plentiful articles on this subject.
     
     Given that 4chan internally seems strongly committed to following US law as its gold standard and mentions of specially implemented systems for dealing with "GR1" (eg "when in doubt, send everything to FBI") I'm tempted to say that B is the more likely option. Less paperwork and manhours for DOJ to contribute as well. There are no legal grounds for officially handing the platform over to the feds and this is merely a feeling but I don't feel like moot would be fine doing that voluntarily.
     
     Feds don't understand fediverse. When feds visited me 10 years ago over my forced-anonymous IRC network, they didn't understand anonymity or IRC. I'm tempted to say that feds cannot and will not understand 4chan for the same reasons they can't understand fediverse or IRC so it most likely makes sense that they would put site admins on their payroll and offer them kickbacks when they forward "actionable content" -- they tried to offer me a deal exactly like that for my network, despite not understanding how IRC or anonymity "work" -- obviously I rejected it but I could see they had a standard procedure for dealing with "weird online shit"
     
     Here's a weird idea: feds approach RAPEAPE and say, "hey, by all means encourage more retarded nazis to post mentally ill bullshit on /pol/, and if any of it can lead to arrests we'll offer you a kickback." Now he can build strong "right" power while earning kickbacks from uncle sam when taking out the trash. And thus a janny manages to no longer do it for free.
     
     cc @BowsacNoodle , @ins0mniak , @bajax
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 05:05:30 JST pistolero

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     • Kucing Goreng
     @stelo @BowsacNoodle @bajax @fluffy @ins0mniak
     
     > I were DOJ I would either (A) demand root access to server or (B) employ admins,
     
     See, the CIA is interesting: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html . Instead of hiring someone to do it, they found someone that was already doing it and sent him cash.
     
     > (He -- RAPEAPE -- was discussed in depth by VICE for playing a special role in turning 4chan "more racist" -- https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-man-who-helped-turn-4chan-into-the-internets-racist-engine/ )
     
     Interesting!
     
     > but I don't feel like moot would be fine doing that voluntarily.
     
     Whatever he did think, he is now no longer in control of the site; all bets were off after he failed to bring back snacks.
     
     > Feds don't understand fediverse.
     
     I'm inclined to agree. (Did you read the FBI thing? I forget who I have sent it to and I think I sent it to you but maybe I didn't: https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/fse-vs-fbi.html )
     
     > I'm tempted to say that feds cannot and will not understand 4chan for the same reasons they can't understand fediverse
     
     I remember seeing their attempts to explain who Anonymous was after the Chanology stuff, they were obsessed with figuring out who the "leader" was. I think they've figured it out, otherwise they wouldn't have flipped Sabu.
     
     > they would put site admins on their payroll and offer them kickbacks when they forward "actionable content" -- they tried to offer me a deal exactly like that for my network,
     
     Now this is interesting!
     
     > And thus a janny manages to no longer do it for free.
     
     Makes sense.
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 05:15:02 JST ins0mniak

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     @p @bajax @fluffy @stelo @BowsacNoodle Sabu was a fatfuck.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 05:15:34 JST pistolero

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     • Kucing Goreng
     @ins0mniak @BowsacNoodle @bajax @fluffy @stelo He was a snitch.
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 05:22:29 JST ins0mniak

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     • Kucing Goreng
     @p @bajax @fluffy @stelo @BowsacNoodle Oh I'm aware.
     
     He sent a lot of people down river man. All the while that lolsec shit was going on he was reporting back to the FBI in real time.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 05:22:48 JST pistolero

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     @ins0mniak @BowsacNoodle @bajax @fluffy @stelo Yeah, I mean, of course he was a fat fuck.
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 05:27:04 JST ins0mniak

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     @p @bajax @fluffy @stelo @BowsacNoodle Everytime I saw him on the news I wanted to see him fall down the stairs or something.
     
     Sweaty bitch.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 05:51:42 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @reallyangry @stelo @bajax @fluffy @p @ins0mniak they do it for free :sneedcat:
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     annoyed (reallyangry@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 05:51:43 JST annoyed

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     @stelo @bajax @fluffy @p @ins0mniak @BowsacNoodle the article keeps saying "janitor"
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 06:07:16 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @p @bajax @fluffy @stelo @ins0mniak >Poole and Nishimura did not respond to repeated requests for comment. RapeApe responded by sending an email that contained only a single link to a video of naked muscular men dancing.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 06:11:03 JST pistolero

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     @BowsacNoodle @bajax @fluffy @stelo @ins0mniak
     
     > only a single link to a video of naked muscular men dancing.
     
     :blackscienceman:
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 06:13:31 JST ins0mniak

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     @p @bajax @fluffy @stelo @BowsacNoodle :putindisgust:
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 06:14:26 JST pistolero

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     @ins0mniak @BowsacNoodle @bajax @fluffy @stelo It was almost definitely a "thug shaker" video but they just said "naked muscular men dancing".
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 06:18:55 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     @p @bajax @fluffy @stelo @ins0mniak @BowsacNoodle The only reason to go to 4chan is to take memes tbh
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 06:20:33 JST pistolero

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     @dcc @BowsacNoodle @bajax @fluffy @ins0mniak @stelo Do they have anything good lately? There's, like, a lot of wojak shit coming out of there; I haven't seen much that was fun in a while.
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 06:21:14 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     @p @bajax @fluffy @stelo @ins0mniak @BowsacNoodle I only really took a big pile like three years ago, sometimes there are few good ones.
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 06:22:44 JST ins0mniak

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     @dcc @bajax @fluffy @p @stelo @BowsacNoodle I thought the paranormal board was kinda fun, havn't been there in years tho
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     jae (jae@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 06:28:42 JST jae

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     @p @stelo @BowsacNoodle @bajax @fluffy @ins0mniak
     
     
     > I think they've figured it out, otherwise they wouldn't have flipped Sabu.
     
     this is a bit, right? the only thing that guy led was a competition for eating sosig's in bulk and doing nothing-burgers on the terminal while siphoning irc to the plant
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 06:29:08 JST pistolero

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     @jae @BowsacNoodle @bajax @fluffy @ins0mniak @stelo
     
     > while siphoning irc to the plant
     
     That is them flipping him, is it not?
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 06:29:30 JST ins0mniak

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     @jae @bajax @fluffy @p @stelo @BowsacNoodle 💯
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     jae (jae@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 17:34:04 JST jae

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     @p @BowsacNoodle @bajax @fluffy @ins0mniak @stelo
     
     > That is them flipping him, is it not?
     
     he was storing oil for a rainy day long before glowbugs turned him on his greasy back. there was never a head, it was many and still is. while many moved on, there's still some a-gamers a-gaming
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 17:57:50 JST pistolero

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     @jae @BowsacNoodle @bajax @fluffy @ins0mniak @stelo
     
     > he was storing oil for a rainy day long before glowbugs turned him on his greasy back.
     
     I did not know that. Skeevier than expected.
     
     > there was never a head, it was many and still is.
     
     Well, yeah, I mean, they must have determined this to flip Sabu; if he was just waiting to flip before they even asked, then maybe they still didn't.
     
     > while many moved on, there's still some a-gamers a-gaming
     
     Yeah. Lotta feds, too. Also a lot of Cyber Force India. I wonder what the ratio is.
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     @p @dcc @BowsacNoodle @bajax @ins0mniak @stelo best dating site online
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     Kirino Kousaka (kirino@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 21:55:44 JST Kirino Kousaka

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     IGNORE ME, SAW YOUR REPLY.
     
     Think those active users might be just for /v/, which is one of (if not the) biggest board so it's not far off from the truth.
     
     Definitely seems it's been WAY overreporting the 20,000,000 or so monthly users they claimed in the past.
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     ShovelTrouble (shoveltrouble@pone.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 22:12:19 JST ShovelTrouble

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     @fluffy @p 4chan's influence across the whole of the internet was never about raw numbers.

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     touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 18-Apr-2025 05:21:28 JST touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified:

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     @Kirino @p well
     that does seem out of reach with these numbers, yes
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