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Cake day: November 25th, 2020

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  • I found another interesting article:

    Simon Harman, 23, Loki’s project lead, said Mr Watkin’s plan was by and large a surprise — and one, he conceded, that might not be optimal for the company’s emerging reputation.

    Mr Harman says Loki did not invite 8kun onto its open source network nor help build it.

    But some Loki staff may have advised 8kun administrators “to a limited extent”, he said, and provided some help to users hoping to access it.

    “Generally, if we get requests for technical information about our platform, we’ll just give it out. It’s all up open source anyway,” he said.

    “There’s definitely been interaction between 8chan users and the Lokinet team. I’m not going to say that that hasn’t occurred, but I don’t think it’s anything out of the ordinary.”

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-11-08/8chan-is-back-online-and-an-australian-startup-accidently-helped/11682438

    But I think all in all there isn’t clear intent here, so we’ll just have to see what the future brings.

    Good luck to your team and such.

    I’d like to host a router if there ever is a fork that doesn’t need the Oxen stake.





  • I see that the announcement advertising post wasn’t on 8chan or 8kun but overchan, which makes sense, since jeff worked on nntp-chan. Sorry that I claimed they did.

    8kun (rebrand after 8chan was banned) does host their site on lokinet and still does, for two years now though, right?

    Also there is this reddit post where someone claims that

    So it’s pure coincidence that Ron’s father Jim Watson, who has been hosting 8chan and is now running 8kun, has transferred some of his old business into a “Loki Technology Inc.” of his own some time ago (see https://www.5ch.net), and that 8kun’s planned “Project ODIN” caters to the same Norse mythology theme. It almost made me wonder, especially since Loki’s dev Jeff has also been active on endchan.

    Their name actually is Jim Watkins and wikipedia also states that

    Watkins also runs the Manila-based business Loki Technology.

    What is going on here? Nothing to do with the Oxen, lokinet etc?

    Is it just a coincidence that the biggest site hosted on your network is 8kun?

    Also: $17k min investment to help the network, lmao that’s insane and I can’t imagine that does any good.