My blog has been silent recently in large part because I’ve been working on a new project: The Androsphere Archive.
I registered that domain years ago after Sigma Frame had a discussion about Manosphere sites going offline. I made it with the intention of unifying sites, especially sites that have gone inactive or offline, or else to mirror other sites that were currently online as an anti-censorship protection. But I never actually used it until now.
I run my own blog and all of these blogs on a dedicated server. In the event of censorship, I retain physical custody of the server and the data. WordPress can’t arbitrarily shut the sites down for terms-of-service violations. Even if a more serious censorship happens, the sites themselves can always be brought back online under a different domain or at a different location.
Currently the archive includes Boxer’s v5k2c2 blog, Gunner Q’s two old blogs GQ and GQ2, and Artisanal Toad’s blog.
Moving forward, if any blogger sends me an exported copy of their site, I’ll likely import that too, whether the site is old or currently active.
Also, if anyone wants me to host a current blog for them that does not rely on the WordPress organization, I’ll make them one and they can post to their heart’s content. For many, the barrier to entry is too great to run their own server on a trusted platform, but I can add as many sites as needed.
The Androsphere name=title first floated around sometime in 2012.
Then Roosh for a time in ’13 took up the cause of popularizing it.
”anti-censorship protection” almost everytime the ‘sphere in general talks about
leftist censorshship and ”their after us” , i think of what has happened to i ,DEREK , MOD & LIZ by the same people who yell ”free market place of ideas” with one breath and then ban/moderate with another breath .
Then they wonder why their ” authoritah” over myself doesn’t exist mainly because it never did!
i gave them traffic and the spotligfht and they wasted it.
WE all here gave them taffic and the spotlight and they treated us as it says here ”when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.”- 1 Corinthians 4:13
i was patient perhaps too patient with them(jack @sf and that troll known as sharkly) and that’s when i vowed i definitely would never come back to any site that told i to restrain myself while they wage war on me-as i was treated at Spawnyspace for 2+ years as troll sharkly was free to slander i as he is essentially their boss over there ever since he first played the damsel-in -distress over them posting topless pics then in his war waged on i for 2+years he again played the damsel-in -distress there talking that tony robbins butt-kissing ”he’s ruining all the fine-work of the fine commenters here”when he really meant ”I’m still angry he’s not bringing traffic and attention to my as jack said in cobwebs site so I’ll slander him until he thinks ”I want to prove to that troll sharkly I’m a good guy and return to his site(s)” .”
i wouldn’t return to any site that treated (or allowed i to be treated as such) me like dirt now period.
But i will instead ”And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.”Matthew 10:14
This is great!
Thank you for doing this, Derek.
🙂
The most prominent Red Pill Archive only includes more “mainstream” Christian Red Pill sites. But these authors of these blogs are among the more controversial and offensive: two of three were censored and the remaining is a hardcore atheist. A large reason for me restoring these sites is because I have referenced their content in the past and I don’t like having dead links.
All three of these sites were also closely tied to Dalrock: both their authors and audiences frequently interacted with each other. It makes no sense to try so hard to restore St. Dalrock’s content but not to restore these sites, regardless of my opinions on all their contents.
My only concern is that these sites are not child-friendly. For whatever reason, way too many children read my site.
“For whatever reason, way too many children read my site.”
….I would not have guessed that. I’ll try to modify my statements a bit.
I allow my children to read my blog if they want to, but I know about that and can manage it like a parent should. It’s their friends that are apparently visiting the site from time-to-time for whatever reasons. Whether any of them do much actual reading, who knows. I can’t imagine that they find the content very interesting. A year ago one of them left a fake comment on my blog, but I deleted it. I should have banned the IP address.
Are they trying to get me in trouble? Use it to bully or taunt one of my kids? Who knows. Kids are immature and they do stupid stuff like that.
This is what comes of me having a name and site that anyone can Google and every kid having their own cell phone. I try to keep the site more-or-less PG-13. In theory, I’ll delete or edit comments that cross the line, but this hasn’t been an issue to date.