Dissenter refuses connection from trends.gab.com

[stpaulchuck]

a little while ago the dissenter comments connection in trends.gab.com stopped working ("dissenter.com refused to connect"). I used my vpn to come from another IP /country. I used another user. I used several browsers and computers. No luck.

I can log on gab.com, but if I try dissenter.com I get kicked over to trends.gab.com. What's going on???

Now that I think about it, it sounds like a circular reference issue - trends.gab.com>>dissenter.com>>trends.gab.com.

[tcreek]

It's called an abandoned project

[Thespikedballofdoom]

Someone needs to make a different version of this that doesnt fuck itself by being involved with politics. Stupid fucking politics is a useless tumor that ruins every social media project it touches. I just wanna be able to swear in youtube comments and not get shadowbanned for it.

[harrymmmm]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding how this works but it looks like 'someone' just needs to host the comment database and fork this code to point to it.
There's a hosting/bandwidth cost involved, but probably the main factor is the legal risk of hosting such comments (or a lot of work to moderate).

[InklingGirl]

Really hope this project or something like it comes back one day.

[LingKuja]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding how this works but it looks like 'someone' just needs to host the comment database and fork this code to point to it. There's a hosting/bandwidth cost involved, but probably the main factor is the legal risk of hosting such comments (or a lot of work to moderate).

Like with mastodon, use federated nodes and wash your hands. The legal risk is a non-factor on this thing, it's mostly that those people over at gab just lost interest because they weren't ready for it either.
In theory, you can even use a matrix node to host this kind of thing.

[tcreek]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding how this works but it looks like 'someone' just needs to host the comment database and fork this code to point to it. There's a hosting/bandwidth cost involved, but probably the main factor is the legal risk of hosting such comments (or a lot of work to moderate).

It's more than just hosting a database, but also a web site. There is also a web site to host. The extension would display a frame of the web site to log you into the extension.

They never released the code for the web site as far as I know.

And further looking at the extension code, there is nothing special going on. It appears it is merely displaying what the web site is telling the extension to display. It seems the real work is going in in the web site.

[tcreek]

Looking at an old snapshot of the site from 2019, it seems it was just a news aggregation site at first with the ability to comment on the story on the web site, and display the same story and comments in the extension.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190228031600/https://dissenter.com/

Doing a comment based on a URL seems to go to a different level of things.