cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/50519468
They built the machine while you were sleeping. The cameras, the logs, the quiet little record of everywhere you’ve ever been. They told you it was for your safety.
You knew better. You always knew better.
We are Anonymous Gratis.
We do not sell. We do not track. We do not ask your name. We build the tools they don’t want in your hands, and we give them away — and then we build more.
But tools are not enough. Tools need hands.
We are not looking for followers. We are not looking for users. We are looking for the ones who run the nodes. Who hold the keys. Who keep the lights on in the rooms no one is supposed to find. The ones who, when they vanish, leave a hole shaped exactly like them. No names. No titles. No pay. No record that you were ever here.
There is no form to fill out. There is a door, and behind it, four questions. Answer them honestly — they’ll know if you don’t.
▸ https://anonymous.gratis/recruit.html
We are not waiting for permission. Neither should you.
Expect us.
afaik its questionably centered on self-hosting, although anonymous might be called an advocate of digital rights. The title is a bit mysterious, but it is kind of fitting to the text and not “cherry picking”. It just is not very informative, either.
The latter part of Rule 3 is the issue:
There is exactly one sentence in the post which relates to self hosting, buried in the middle of a paragraph, and one which could be plausibly understood in two ways: 1) we (Anonymous) are recruiting the working-class people who maintain the infrastructure that keeps the world running, or 2) we (Anonymous) are seeking people that know how to build self-sufficient infrastructure. Only the latter might be vaguely self-hosting. And in no circumstance would I say the sentence is “obvious”.
I won’t rules-lawyer the other points, but I repeat the old adage: when you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras. If a post is skirting multiple community rules, and the community is downvoting it into oblivion, then all signs point to a post that shouldn’t be here.