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Cost/benefit analysis of in-person meetings

I would like to have some kind of meetup / in-person book club for NRX topics in my city. When I look on Meetup there's one existing group that is more general/mainstream right wing. I'm curious if people think it's risky to engage in physical meetings for these subjects. I'm on the spectrum and I can't really tell how NRX is perceived by the public. Could attending in person meetings be career-threatening? I have a family and need to protect them, and my income. I'd really like to make some new like-minded friends but the very act of reaching out feels somewhat risky.

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2024/04/14
00:46 UTC

Mencius Moldbug two nations tale

So I remember a story told by Mencius Moldbug between two nations that are not allowed to communicate with one another and are enemies. One is a very liberal, democratic nation, the other is an authoritarian, persecuting nation. Despite their inability to communicate with one another, Mencius Moldbug points out the the secret liberals in the authoritarian state will have even better ideas of subversion than those professors in the liberal state who indoctrinate people with their ideologies for the sake of keeping their job.

What are the two nations called again?

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2023/12/22
17:57 UTC

Daily Moldbug Post October 07, 2020: UR: Banned in San Francisco

This is The Daily Moldbug post of /r/darkenlightenment where one long-form link to the founder of neoreaction, Mencius Moldbug, gets made every day, going chronologically through all Unqualified Reservations posts ever made. You can easily refer to previous Daily Moldbug posts on /r/darkenlightenment’s sister sub /r/TheDailyMoldbug. You can review more moldbug link compilations at molbuggery and the cathedral compilation.

UR: Banned in San Francisco

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2020/10/07
14:05 UTC

Daily Moldbug Post October 06, 2020: The Honduran rebellion – or, state’s invisible world revealed

The Honduran rebellion – or, state's invisible world revealed

Additional Short post:

Young America

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2020/10/06
14:05 UTC

Alternative Platforms Announcement/Reminder

In order to ensure the continuation of the network and discussion we have here, as well as just exploring new technologies and formats, the DE Community has expanded to some other platforms.

TL;DR: Neither these platforms is particularly difficult to sign up for, and if you want to skip all this you can just go to the sites and everything is pretty intuitive. This guide has been made to give people more in-depth instructions if they need them, and serve as a future reference

Ruqqus

An anti-censorship Reddit-style scrolling thread forum.

Signup

DE Community

App (Android-only atm)

GitHub

[Matrix]

A real time, federated, secure, chat platform with lots of functionality and significant space for future expansion. Highly resistant to censorship and deplatforming.

Terms: Just a few brief definition of terms, an explanation of how things on Matrix work, since while it is not exceptionally complicated for say it is a little bit more nuanced than something like Reddit or even Discord

Matrix: The platform itself is called Matrix. Specifically it is [The Matrix Protocol] which is an open source, decentralized, federated communications standard that was first developed in 2014. In English - it is a set of specifications and software that can be deployed on a server by anyone, and allows different nodes to communicate so long as they are using the same standard. In even simpler English - it's a communications network with a lot of configurable options, but a set of core requirements, that can be used to send a whole lot of different types of information, but at the moment is used almost entirely for the kind of messaging and media sharing that most are familiar with.
Riot/Element: Element - formerly called "Riot" before the recent name change - is a Matrix client, but it is not itself a chat platform. It's just one program used to communicate with the Matrix Protocol. It is not the only Matrix client, but because it was the first - and is certainly by far the most well-developed, stable, and fully-featured client - it is the most popular, and overwhelmingly the one people are going to be using. (That said, anyone can write a Matrix client - even something as simple as a basic terminal interface - and many people have. If you are interested in exploring other options, a list can be found here (be aware though, that as of this writing, Riot/Element is the only one that fully supports all features natively - such as encryted messages - and for other clients you may need to use additional software to get the same functionality). It is also the closest to an "official" client.
Home Server: Like Discord, and IRC, Matrix makes use of a network of interconnected and decentralized service - "federation" - but unlike those platforms the server is not where you actually chat, it is just where your account resides. An analogy can be made to email, where you will have a handle/address on a certain server - johnsmith@hotmail.com - but you are not limited to communicating with people on that server and can message anyone on any server that is properly connected. Matrix accounts take the format @nrxfan1:matrix.org where "@nrxfan1" is your handle and "matrix.org" is your homeserver (Your unique username is considered to be the whole thing, so multiple people can have the same handles on different Home Servers. In addition you can set a separate display name that need not bear any relation to your username, though people will be able to see the latter if they open your profile). Actual discussion takes place in a...
Room: every interaction on Mateix aside from the settings menu will take place in a room. Rooms are fairly analogous to the IRC or Discord concept of a "channel", except they don't really "exist" anywhere - specifically they are not hosted on or owned by any one home server but are instead simply the sum total of all interactions of the users with in that room [simplification]. They cannot be "deleted", even by Home Server admins, at most they can prevent their specific users from accessing a given room. The more different Home Servers have users in a room, the harder it is for any specific note to censor it; this is at the heart of Matrix's resilience to de-platforming.

It should be noted though, to continue with the email analogy, that the admin of your Home Server does have near complete power over your account. Aside from end-to-end encrypted messages, they can – at least in theory – access all of your information, see your interactions and so on. In addition they obviously have the ability to deactivate, delete, or even acquire control of your account. Therefore it is a good idea to avoid openly hostile Home Servers (even though these are few and far between some do exist) and generally be aware of the "terms of use" or "code of conduct" if they have one. Of course, if you are even a little bit tech-savvy, or can just read basic instructions, and you are willing to register a domain and pay a small hosting fee it's not too difficult to get your own home server for your account or your friends.)

This is just a brief overview, more specific questions can be asked in the Matrix rooms themselves.

How to sign-up: getting a Matrix account is pretty straightforward.

1 • Get a client: Element/Riot has apps for every major platform as well as a browser client - Downloads - Web client access

2 • Create account: Choose server, choose account username and password, choose phone/email (if applicable)

NOTE: The sign-up form will always have the option for phone/email, but only certain servers require it, and you can always remove it afterwards. (If you want a burner, use https://sharklasers.com or https://cock.li)

3 • Login: Once logged in you can set a display name and avatar. All version of the Element/Riot client have a dark mode that you can enable

NOTE: When logging in for the first time (technically anytime you do a new login anywhere) you will be prompted to setup a "recovery phrase" or "recovery key" for encrypted messages. What exactly this is, whether it will increase or decrease security, etc is a bit too much to get into here, and more can be explained in the Matrix rooms, but just be aware that "skipping" it for the moment will not cause any problems.

4 • Join rooms: you can create or join a room or start a chat with anyone right out of the box (everything in Matrix happens in a room) I would recommend creating a room just with you in it for now where you can mess around and test things out. To join the official Dark Enlightenment rooms you can do this a number of ways.

First, you can simply use what are known as alias, basically room handles (you should be able to just type these in the text field, hit send, and then they will become a clickable link within the client. If that is not working, you can just use them in conjunction with the URL format shown in option 2). Current DE Rooms are: #DEGeneral:halogen.city, #DERandom:halogen.city, #DEJokes:halogen.city, #DEMusic:halogen.city, #DEConspiracy:halogen.city, #DETechnology:halogen.city, #DEAnnouncements:halogen.city, #DEVideos:halogen.city
Second, on the browser client just put in the full address of DE General: https://app.element.io/#/room/#DEGeneral:halogen.city
Third, you can view the DE Community list of rooms (same procedure as aliases): +dark_enlightenment:matrix.org

NOTE: If you create an account through one of the Riot/Element clients, and do not specify a custom Home Server - as pretty much everyone will do - it will automatically put you on matrix.org. Be aware that this is not the only option or even technically the "official" server, it just happens to be the default, and the longest-running and most popular one. There are many other options, and some run by people who are more sympathetic to our principles, but it is probably sufficient for now. If this is your first time using Matrix it is recommended you just create an account there, other Home Server options can be discussed once you get to the DE Rooms

If there are any questions please ask in this thread.

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2020/10/05
17:22 UTC