Hi Frot, me ole mate!
Happy New Year & many of them to you & yours!
I received a gift from Twatter over Xmas 2020 - full deplatforming. I tried to create new accounts later, but was swiftly spotted by the haters and reported, so I gave up with that site.
At 8.10pm on New Year's Eve just past (while I was sending much love to my many followers) I was summarily dismissed by FakeBook and Discord at the same time. Fakebook found my change of IP suspicious and Discord declared that I had posted false and misleading information.
I have been unable to recover either of those accounts despite much patient hoop-leaping ever since.
This leaves me only Hive.blog and email for communication.
I haven't tried either GAB or BASTYON and, tbh, I am reluctant. Why enter the boxing ring with more heavyweights who want to batter fuck out of me? I am just a grannie in Dorset UK after all....
Today, after reading a couple of snidey comments on my articles I am alerted that my Hive.blog account could disappear at any moment. I read the Hive Terms & Conditions - yep.... they can delete our accounts and they don't even need to explain why. Just BISHBASHBOSH YOU ARE DEAD styly!! https://hive.blog/tos.html (see Section 13)
I have looked for a way to safely store my 1,100+ articles or, at least, to download a copy of them as backup but it is beyond my limited IT skills. Do you know if it is possible to make a full copy (as happened when Hive forked from Steem)??
Or must I suffer the total loss of a decade of research if I fall foul of the stalking whales and downvoters?
You know I value your opinions & advice.
Much love, as ever, Fran xx
Wow, that is a harsh start to the new year!
I've long had a strong dislike of Discord which I think is spying on users - but you are the first person I've heard of being kicked off it. You have done well!
Now then, attempting to answer your question:
Storing 1100 articles. Neither Bastyon or Gab would be much help there. But Baston chat is a very good private chat for communicating with other people who are on it. Only catch is that most people don't have accounts on Bastyon and are not used to it. I do think it is genuinely private. Gab has chat too but it is nothing special.
Hive, being a blockchain, in theory can't delete your content. But insiders can downvote you until you have a negaive rep and your pictures dissappear on the Hive front end - you can see that done on one of my burner alt accounts - @pube - over the years lots of accounts on Steemit and Hive have had that done to them.
From there it gets more complex. You can post your content on Wordpress, but if you use their servers they can certainly delete it.
I do use Wordpress myself but I'm hosting it on my own server space I'm renting. But that server is hosted in New Zealand, and can be threatened by the NZ government. I've already been told to remove some content under threat of a 7 year jail term.
I keep backups of all my content on both cloud storage and my own hard drives. If I got wiped I would probably rent server space in Switzerland and repost it there. But even that is not fully secure, if the globalists really want something removed, they can get it deleted in Switzerland too.
Here is a workaround: If you only post on Hive with your rewards turned off, the insiders can't downvote you and take your rep down, So all your old content remains visable on the Hive blockchain.
And if you add the tag #vyb to your posts, even with the Hive rewards turned off, you can still earn VYB tokens. In fact, in those, I'm a whale and can give your posts good upvotes.
So basically, your existing content on Hive is secure if you no longer post with the rewards on in Hive. That is the situation I've found myself in, and that is my best solution. But I'm sure other people could answer this a lot better...
https://www.vybrainium.com
We are being hounded offline, wouldn't you say?
Fascist bullies everywhere, on & off the internet!
My grandparents (RIP) would be shocked that this world has become so hostile towards original thinkers, especially as they trusted Churchill & believed they lived in a "free country"!
Maybe I should take up knitting & crochet like a good obedient grannie?
Now that might be a more relaxing pastime!
Fighting with dyed wool rather than dying fools?
Yes, we certainly are - but in many ways I think that the more they try to censor us the more they help create new uncensored ways to spread information - VYB for example grew out of downvoting on Hive.
And the big platforms like Twatter are driving everone onto other platforms