Gun: The P2P database for freedom fighters

It seems rather counterproductive to call something like this "Gun". It's like they're asking for censorship of source repositories.

I see today that the app stores have banned the Parler app. A cesspit, yes (so is Twitter), but it'll be personal hardware next, and along with that will come "signed code only", with a restriction to the source libraries which the hardware vendor has approved, because otherwise we get terrorists arranging insurrections and building their own drones, right?

The name of this thing seems to be playing into that narrative. "You don't need general purpose computing unless you're doing something wrong".

I briefly used this but ended up giving up because it was hard to debug. Like all I wanted was a simple FIFO queue but that proved to be quite a challenge. I'm not sure if things changed since 2019 but that was my last crack at building a p2p app.

Support from dev is fantastic and is very active, I just wish it worked for my case, I think it has potential still.

I have come here to state that the very name of this piece of software to me is offensive to the degree that I have never from my first perceiving it years ago to this day even remotely considered using it or even read its docs. The insensibility of it popping up in times like these and branding itself with the words "freedom fighters" is staggering and disturbing. I want to encourage the community to make it clear to the owners of said software in no uncertain terms that their frivolous use of words is at best immature and unreflected, that the continued use of even metaphorical language like "gun[s] for fighters" will be seen as a glorification of violence, and has no place among people whose endeavor is the peaceful, democratic exchange of ideas.

Isn't it a bit tone deaf to post this project right now?

> For security purposes, we recommend you include these dependencies with your app, rather than trusting a public CDN. (Although we do love jsDelivr! It is free, open source, and give us download stats!)

Isn't this the point of subresource integrity?

Not impressed with turning the ban on Parler into a marketing opportunity.

Especially if this is to cater to so called “freedom fighters“ who committed treason.

Back to tech: wouldn’t it make more sense for these people to migrate to Mastodon? After all, it’s Twitter they’ll miss.