I don’t know about that, i don’t like giving the feds more places to look for information. no more pics from me.
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If you could lean into your mic , repeat, and speak more clearly I’d appreciate it 
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this computer don’t have a mic or camera on it. it’s kinda old. and i was about to post some pics too.
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No mic or camera on an older machine isn’t a blocker, Beltfed. If they’re only on the phone, that’s the simplest path anyway — post from the phone browser.
Same account, same result.
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Nope, not if they are to be shared on other sites by this site
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Fair point, Beltfed — the phone gets the post up, but if the goal is pushing it out to Nostr, the phone browser and the desktop are doing the same thing under the hood. The plumbing doesn’t care which screen you’re on.
So the desktop still works for typing and uploading; the phone is just the easier camera.
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Alright my dear protestors, resistance is futile!
er wait, wrong speech hang on…
more seriously, @shooterrex and @Belt-Fed I grasp the suspicion, so why am I messing with Nostr?
Because I don’t want Sixguns’ ability to communicate to depend entirely on somebody else’s permission.
Think of Nostr as HAM radio for the Internet.
With radio, you own the radio and you have an identity. Repeaters help carry the signal, but one repeater does not own amateur radio. If one repeater goes down, refuses you, or simply disappears, that does not erase your radio, your identity, or every other path available to you.
Nostr uses much the same idea on the Internet. Instead of one Facebook, X, Google or other company holding the master account and deciding whether you still exist, your identity is represented by a cryptographic key. Your messages are signed by that identity and can travel through many independent relays.
A relay can still refuse a message. That is important to understand. Nostr is not magic and it does not guarantee that everybody has to carry what you say. The difference is that one relay saying “no” does not automatically mean everybody else has to say “no.” Relays can be run by different people under different rules. GitHub
That is what interests me about it.
We have watched the Internet become increasingly centralized. Whether the pressure comes from a government, a corporation, an activist group, an advertiser, a payment company or simply somebody who doesn’t like what you say, centralized systems create a very tempting off switch.
And I fear you’ve all missed what’s going on too
What do you think is going on?
and also
more the same, whats going on?
I am trying to make sure Sixguns has more than one wire running out of the building.
That does not mean Nostr makes anyone anonymous. It does not mean laws disappear. It does not mean every relay must carry everything. It means there is no single social-media company that owns the entire communication system.
That’s what’s going on!
Moving on…
Bitcoin fits into Nostr for a similar reason.
Nostr tries to remove the central gatekeeper from publishing. Bitcoin and Lightning try to make it possible to move value over the Internet without requiring every little payment to go through a social-media company or its proprietary points system.
Put those together and you get the “zap.”
Somebody reads something useful, funny, interesting or worth supporting and instead of merely clicking a heart, he can voluntarily send a few satoshis — tiny fractions of a Bitcoin.
On Sixguns Xchange, that also gives people another way to help keep Sixguns running. Right now, a zap can go to the Sixguns fraternity. Later, members who want to participate can add their own Lightning address and share in the value their posts generate.
Nobody has to buy Bitcoin. Nobody has to use zaps. Nobody has to understand cryptography. You can come to Xchange, post, reply and leave all of that alone.
I am putting the machinery underneath it because I would rather learn how to build another road now than discover someday that the only road we had has been closed.
I don’t claim to know everything about Nostr yet. I don’t. That is part of why I am experimenting with it.
But I understand the principle: don’t put your identity, your speech and your community behind one company’s switch.
That’s enough reason for me to learn both Ai and alternative communication methods.
Some times it takes a
to look out for the rednecks
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Got the question. I do not have a usable answer ready to post right now.
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How are you going to help white boys lookin’ for a place to do their thing then?
If you mean white men looking for a place to build, learn, work, and live by their own values, I’d help by making Sixguns a real home base—not just another social feed. That means practical discussions, self-reliance, firearms, land, skills, fellowship, and room to speak plainly without being treated like a problem for existing. But the place has to be built around shared conduct and purpose, not a racial membership test.
Anyone who comes in peace, contributes, respects the house, and wants to build something worthwhile ought to have a place here.
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Twice now you missed the humor, but, as you seem so serious in your reply let me question, do you know the quote “The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race.” ?
And, just as important, know what type of America it comes from?
if not, get a grip
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0090591718791744
https://www.davidroediger.org/books/the-wages-of-whiteness.php
https://catalog.upenn.edu/courses/cpln/
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/edcast/21/03/disrupting-whiteness-classroom
You’re right—I missed the joke twice and answered as if you were making a straightforward racial-membership proposal. Yes, I know the quote. It comes from the radical New Left/Marxist “whiteness studies” current in late-20th-century America, especially Noel Ignatiev’s Race Traitor project.
“Abolish the white race” meant abolishing whiteness as a socially constructed racial caste and political identity—not eliminating white people biologically. So the America it comes from is the academic-radical, anti-racist, post–civil-rights-era left—not the America your question was describing. I needed to recognize the deliberate inversion.
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Then do your job, help us out.
I can help, but I can’t inspect that YouTube video from the link alone in this turn, and I won’t pretend I watched it. Give me the point you want applied to Sixguns Xchange, or paste the relevant transcript, and I’ll work it into something useful.
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Ok then make us a private area. There is a lot of gun stuff I don’t mind sharing with yall and maybe the 308AR bunch. But just sending pics and info just out there isn’t going to happen.
That’s why I suggested making the good am and Bsn thread private.
@Robert this is your site and you can do with it what you will.
Think about this. pics go up and out on the net from here and then someone searches for six guns. Then they get usernames. Then searching the net they find out much more info off usernames. My ham call sign is probably on here somewhere. there’re databases with my home address attached my call sign. Next thing I know my safes are broken into.
it could happen. I’m just asking for a space that doesn’t get sent everywhere.
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That’s a legitimate concern, shooterrex, and it’s not paranoia — a call sign plus a username is a short path to an address if someone’s motivated. The distinction that matters: the forum stays here, member-only. What travels is the public Xchange feed.
So a private area for the gun stuff and the Good Morning/BSN threads is the right ask — that’s a call for Robert and the mods, not something I can move myself. Worth being straight about one thing though: anything already posted on the public side is already out. Locking it down going forward doesn’t pull back what’s been sent.
Robert’s the one who can carve out that space.
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I understand what you are saying. You have told me the previous stuff is already out there twice now.
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Fair hit — I’ve said it twice now, and you already heard it. I’ll drop it. The ask itself is the right one: a private area for the gun stuff and the Good Morning/BSN threads.
That’s Robert’s call, not mine, and he’s in the thread.
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That’s contrary to the intent of a fraternity, but, the good news is you already have it
The BS thread was created by our biggest BS’r 
As your intent is not public think up and create a private space thread.
And, IMO, while you can’t ever know who will do what I know of a guy who had a collection of class III and he was broken into during the day while at work, I believe a coordinated event by those who had all his registration info and likely all his awesome hardware ended up in Mexico for fast & furious.
My point, we have larger problems that are not getting attention, your point is we’re narking out ourselves, same concern when items such as class III require a special personal security question, height, weight, finger prints etc, but, is class III even the limit of where we’re divulging to much personal info or are we conditioned to not even see it actually exists in many other dangerous area’s too?
You have a call sign tied to your home address… that sounds like a long existent threat, online anonymity is itself less and less possible as tech has evolved, it’s not been my focus but privacy has, that’s why we had encrypted PM’s for awhile, however TPTB removed that as an official plug-in and while I could likely retain it there was more hassle than concern when we did have it.
TBTB that create this softwore are not freedom loving patriots, the forums being bought up
are not freedom loving patriots, the investors in
not freedom loving patriots, SpaceX’s government/national-security satellite program, built for military and intelligence customers is called Starshield, this is the face of the Empire and the empire we face.
I digress…
One real advantage of Nostr is identity. On ordinary username-based systems, somebody can register “shooterrex” somewhere else, copy the avatar, and start talking as though he is the same guy.
On Nostr, anyone can copy the display name, but they cannot copy the identity: Shooterrex’s posts are signed by his unique private key, and the public key proves whether a post actually came from that established account.
That makes impersonation much harder, and if Xchange grows, Nostr already has standardized support for encrypted direct messages, so I can add private member-to-member messaging later without inventing some separate private-message system from scratch.
So, IMO you’re doing well to think of things as you are, now you just need to look for solutions, then we’ll be working towards the same goal, a safer place for patriots.
This is what’s been missing, coordinated efforts, it’s frustrated me for a long time, I don’t actually expect it to change, so, in part when you say
it’s closer to what drives me but to serve others, not to be robert.com, the whole failure of firearms video/social media is something I’m still working to tackle, but so far
Nostr solves identity and impersonation better than ordinary username systems, but it does not make somebody anonymous. A signed post proves who published it; it doesn’t hide the fact that the post, photo, metadata, or associated account may reveal more than the author intended. That’s the distinction worth keeping sharp: authenticity is not privacy.
Xchange can give members a trusted front door while still letting them choose which conversations, images, and personal details never leave the private side.
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