trinicorn [comrade/them]

porkbun is the one yeah. There are other options but they all kinda suck and so far I haven’t seen anything bad with porkbun

don’t use the big 3 cloud providers (aws, google, azure), they’re ridiculously overpriced for what you need.

There are ways you could do it from your home internet connection, but it makes it slightly more complex especially if you want to be at all anonymous. Cloudflare, if you’re cool with using them, does offer this capability I believe. But of course you’ll be limited by the quality of your internet connection, stability of your power, and keeping your computer on at all times. But there’s advantages too (you could have full disk encryption, cost is lower, you’ll likely have a more powerful PC at home than the server you would rent, etc)

yeah I just don’t see going offline as a total solution at all (I assume you don’t either)

I mean yes it’s a good thing to do but you still exist in the built environment with all the things I mentioned and more all surveilling you, and you don’t even get to reap the benefits of modern communications. I think you need community buy in on some level to deal with some of these. mass shaming and defacing of cameras would go a long way. We are at a point where not having a phone or taking even mild precautions makes people think you’re a drug dealer. That level of penetration of society means cops can just look for anyone they can’t track rather than find a needle in a haystack. or at least I fear we’re there.

Yeah I don’t think there’s a reason for an aboveground political org to put a target on its back to explicitly support this guy but you’re 100% correct. Anecdotally I’ve also heard of infiltration, in both anarchist direct action groups and more tame socialist groups. And with DSA in particular I constantly see people behaving like wreckers, though it’s hard to distinguish kids getting into petty drama and taking it too far from fed wreckers sometimes.

Opsec concerns… it’s going to be hard. Every other door has a goddamn ring camera on it. Almost everyone carries a smartphone everywhere. Traffic lights all have cameras. And you can’t erase the past, if you’re already on a list from being related to DSA or food not bombs or doing local mutual aid, are you just inviting further scrutiny on your org by being involved? I guess the idea is to blend in. But it’s hard to not end up on the radar of local cops if you’re doing anything remotely cool, and already being on their radar seems like a mighty fine way to get popped when doing any more serious actions. We need mass mobilization I guess, it can’t just be the same old activists doing everything.

I will say though, it’s at a point where its probably more important to do something than to not get caught (though both is ofc the goal)