First things first. Hexbear makes my life bearable sometimes. I don’t use an account because I don’t like how addicted to social media I get sometimes and I’m afraid of pissing people off, because although I consider myself an ML, I come from a very conservative family where I unknowingly say bad things about idpol.
Anyways. As a very drunk man (bad very bad day first time drinking in months - not an alcoholic), do you think the US government monitors hexbear? Like if I browse it without a VPN do you think I become a POI, serious, if not stupid, question?
Again, thank you for being a shining beacon in my day surrounded by people who justify genocide, political violence against the global south, and endless enterprise. I really am grateful even if I’m not the best Marxist. You’ve taught me about donbas, about the struggles of north Korea, the toils of Iran among so much more
Edit: As a still drunkman someone asked me about idpol. I uh can’t see ur messages here but I can on my Lemmy client.
uh to make myself clear not in an Obama way - I find nick Mullen stuff funny. It makes me feel bad because of the punching down so i avoid it. and I might do things that are unintentionally mean, forgetting to use the correct pronouns (like genuinely I hardly meet with my enby friends so my mind just defaults to calling someone female presenting she rather than the preferred they. I do try to correct but sometimes I’m so absent minded that I’d rather not upset anyone.
I am trying to self crit so I’m OK with being dunked on I guess. But I isolate BC I don’t wanna upset ppl. Its harder to express my intentions online when I mess up. @lemmmygradwontallowme
I’m sure this site and everyone on it has a file and the site itself also does. But I also wouldn’t worry too much about it because fucking everyone and everything has a file. It’s the information age and these are intelligence agencies. So like, yeah, there’s for sure a hexbear folder and I’m guessing some guy named Steve has had a look here from time to time for his fed job but probably most data being tagged and stored is done so automatically by whatever algorithm or keyword trackers or whatever. It’s there if they ever need it but if I were a fed tracking threat levels I’d put us at nearly harmless, have Steve lurk there once a month or so and have computers do all the rest of the snooping. I’m sure you’re a person of above average interest but like…most likely not by enough to matter. If you do becoming a person of interest enough to matter they’ll be able to pull up several hundred pages documenting you for sure, but you just kinda gotta accept that’s part of living a functional life nowadays and if you do go bigger or if shit gets real bad be ready to operate under the assumption they know everything you do on an electronic device.
Think of it like drug dealers, your mids guy who sells so he can smoke for free can pretty much just openly text message about setting up deals with the bare minimum effort of code talk "hey you good to stop by?’ From a bunch of different numbers being your entire text history. The guy he’s buying from, honestly is probably still using phones but probably demands much more subtlety, they guy that guy is buying pounds off of is gonna have a more robust system of contact, a meet will be arranged and business will he handled at a known to be safe location. Harder drugs means even more secrecy up and down the line. Same methods just different targets.