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I, too, was fascinated by a "web without browsers" (or with other kinds of browsers, really) until i stepped into the community and realized that community was

I, too, was fascinated by a "web without browsers" (or with other kinds of browsers, really) until i stepped into the community and realized that community was a proto-nazi cesspit full of misogynistic attitudes. Maybe now that times have passed, people have died who posthumously admitted their preferences for white supremacy (and heavily bitcoin-supported that), and whole projects have been renamed, there can be a more inclusive community built around browserless web? For those who haven't followed, i'm refering to Woob (previously Weboob). I'd be interested in other people's feedback about that community lately, the ideas are great!

meepmorp 5y ago
> I, too, was fascinated by a "web without browsers" (or with other kinds of browsers, really) until i stepped into the community and realized that community was a proto-nazi cesspit full of misogynistic attitudes. Could you expand on that? It seems a bit out of (anti-)left field, so to speak.
- southerntofu 5y ago
  The name and logo of Weboob were specifically chosen to be a provocative pair of boobs. There were attempts to sexualize and feminize all kinds of things through "boobs" throughout the project. You could find comments about "faggots" and "niggers" in the code. All in all it was not a very friendly community in my standards. If you wanna know more about the recent revelations/scandals, you can look up Pankkake's suicide notes and the big Bitcoin donations he made to the US alt right and neo-nazi networks (he's from France). > It seems a bit out of (anti-)left field, so to speak. Sorry but english is not my native language. What does that mean?
matheusmoreira 5y ago
I had this idea too. Wrote some code to scrape data from my school's badly designed website and it significantly improved my quality of life. Really made me think. What if we had a huge library of scrapers for every single website out there? We could build custom clients and have full control over everything. If people can maintain absurdly huge adblocking databases, surely something like this would also be possible. Nice to know about Weboob. No idea what the community was like but it's nice to know I'm not insane for thinking about stuff like this.

meepmorp 5y ago

> I, too, was fascinated by a "web without browsers" (or with other kinds of browsers, really) until i stepped into the community and realized that community was a proto-nazi cesspit full of misogynistic attitudes. Could you expand on that? It seems a bit out of (anti-)left field, so to speak.

southerntofu 5y ago
The name and logo of Weboob were specifically chosen to be a provocative pair of boobs. There were attempts to sexualize and feminize all kinds of things through "boobs" throughout the project. You could find comments about "faggots" and "niggers" in the code. All in all it was not a very friendly community in my standards. If you wanna know more about the recent revelations/scandals, you can look up Pankkake's suicide notes and the big Bitcoin donations he made to the US alt right and neo-nazi networks (he's from France). > It seems a bit out of (anti-)left field, so to speak. Sorry but english is not my native language. What does that mean?

matheusmoreira 5y ago

I had this idea too. Wrote some code to scrape data from my school's badly designed website and it significantly improved my quality of life. Really made me think. What if we had a huge library of scrapers for every single website out there? We could build custom clients and have full control over everything. If people can maintain absurdly huge adblocking databases, surely something like this would also be possible. Nice to know about Weboob. No idea what the community was like but it's nice to know I'm not insane for thinking about stuff like this.