"EAv3 is running on a server that Fusion owns, and the only people that have access to user info are the board admins that need it to make things work and fix problems... In addition the site is backed up to a few other locations (in different parts of the world) on a regular basis.... So we have the privacy that many of us desire, and are pretty much impossible to shut down as long as the Internet is up..."

OK, enough. I got the message. The Facebook thing was a bad idea. I should learn to live by my own motto, "Trust No one". As far as any place being safe, dream on. As long as humans inhabit the earth, here will be cheating, stealing, killing, The whole nine yards. I've been around long enough to know. As far as this subject is concerned, time to move on. Your point has been taken.

TheRagingEunuch wrote: Fri Oct 24, 2025 4:56 pm "EAv3 is running on a server that Fusion owns, and the only people that have access to user info are the board admins that need it to make things work and fix problems... In addition the site is backed up to a few other locations (in different parts of the world) on a regular basis.... So we have the privacy that many of us desire, and are pretty much impossible to shut down as long as the Internet is up..."

OK, enough. I got the message. The Facebook thing was a bad idea. I should learn to live by my own motto, "Trust No one". As far as any place being safe, dream on. As long as humans inhabit the earth, here will be cheating, stealing, killing, The whole nine yards. I've been around long enough to know. As far as this subject is concerned, time to move on. Your point has been taken.

Not saying it's a bad idea, just that I won't participate in it, and won't encourage others to. Most of the rest of it is going into why FB is not a great platform for those that don't want to be publicly out to one and all. You made the decision to follow a different path and be very out, so this might not bother you, or others that might wish to be involved. No right or wrong about either choice,

To the extent that we benefit as a community the more people know we exist, and that it is an option for those that wish to take it, there might even be advantages to it. I just am not going there personally.

I also don't trust FB for other reasons that I consider sound, obviously given their userbase, lots of other folks don't agree with me... Their choice.

There are people that do bad things, no getting around that for sure. I just figure that the harder you make it for them, the less likely they are to bother me instead of the guy that makes it easy. I don't have to outrun the bear, just the other guy he is also chasing...

WheelyFixed

WheelyFixed wrote: Fri Oct 24, 2025 11:09 am There was also the concern that if you are running on someone else's service, all it takes is for the service to decide to change their rules about what's acceptable content, and everything goes poof...

That (not the 'poof' part) almost happened before - initially EAv2 was 'under the wing' of BME, and then they split, when attitudes changed, if I remember correctly.

But this is a real concern. Asking some service to leave due to policies is easy (reddit bans groups for various reasons all the time). Taking down domain name, with private hosting is way harder and requires actually illegal content, among other things.

I have lots of friends on Facebook. Many of whom I compete against in sports. If they knew they were losing to a eunuch…lol

No I think I'd better keep these two worlds apart.

NaturalEunuch wrote: Sat Oct 25, 2025 5:38 pm I have lots of friends on Facebook. Many of whom I compete against in sports. If they knew they were losing to a eunuch…lol

No I think I'd better keep these two worlds apart.

That would be another topic on it's own. "Are eunuch's egos as fragile as intact males' egos?"

fhunter wrote: Fri Oct 24, 2025 9:19 pm

WheelyFixed wrote: Fri Oct 24, 2025 11:09 am There was also the concern that if you are running on someone else's service, all it takes is for the service to decide to change their rules about what's acceptable content, and everything goes poof...

That (not the 'poof' part) almost happened before - initially EAv2 was 'under the wing' of BME, and then they split, when attitudes changed, if I remember correctly.

But this is a real concern. Asking some service to leave due to policies is easy (reddit bans groups for various reasons all the time). Taking down domain name, with private hosting is way harder and requires actually illegal content, among other things.

It did happen then with the split from BME, and it sort of happened again as EAv2 was shutting down... There were at least some efforts to save the EAv2 content that would have happened in the last week or two, but then there was a communications mixup with the ISP that was running the hosting server for the site, which led to it being wiped unexpectedly...

Hopefully the current setup is robust against that sort of failure.

WheelyFixed

mounds_dont wrote: Sat Oct 25, 2025 8:22 pm

NaturalEunuch wrote: Sat Oct 25, 2025 5:38 pm I have lots of friends on Facebook. Many of whom I compete against in sports. If they knew they were losing to a eunuch…lol

No I think I'd better keep these two worlds apart.

That would be another topic on it's own. "Are eunuch's egos as fragile as intact males' egos?"

I agree, might be worth splitting it off, or starting a new thread. Definitely could be an interesting topic...

WheelyFixed

I'll volunteer!
See you on the other thread!

MD