WorldTruth Social Networking Site

[Jacques]

I have tried what you have just described but it does not work. Nothing happens when I do that.

It might be one of your add-ons? I had to completely disable "ad-block" to get any of the drop down menus to work.

I restarted Firefox in safe mode, with all add-ons disabled, and everything on Worldtruth worked fine. So then I re-enabled all the add-ons, and disabled them one at a time to see which was was causing the conflict.

Once I figured out it was "ad block" I added an exception for WT.

Thanks so much Guardian, I will try that.

It is working fine now. It was AVG security toolbar which was giving me trouble.

Thanks again Guardian.

 

[darksai]

let alone invest in building a whole new network from scratch for purposes already served more than adequately..

My point is that Facebook stopped serving our purpose adequately when it started charging to share our posts. We're already "preaching to the choir" unless we PAY per post.

I had know idea they charged a fee.

Yup, and the fee is determined by how popular the person you want to contact is, so if you wanted to contact someone like Laura, who has thousands of "Friends" the fee would be $4-5.00. This is in addition to being bombarded with ads AND having all your personal data sold to anyone and everyone who's willing to pay.

I do not object to paying for any service I receive, but Facebook has gotten absolutely ridiculous. Constant ads, not just on the side panels, but in my feed, in addition to the income they generate by selling my personal information (which is exactly why I don't use my real name)

Even worse, only about 20% of the people who've "liked" one of my pages actually see what I post...unless I want to pay to "promote" the post. To me this TOTALLY defeats the purpose of having a page on Facecrook.

I think you might be getting a bit emotional here about this. Facebook is a service providing business, so they can, effectually, charge whatever they want. The purpose of you having a page, as well as everything else anyone else on the site, is for them to make revenue. They've been slowly and incrementally turning their resource expenses, that is us the users (note: not clients), into a more direct ways of generating income since they started out. There's absolutely no objective reason that any particular person that likes your page should see your posts at all when you consider that you're up against not only other pages, but their friends with all their trivia as well, a lot of which includes sharing of pages' posts that have a lot more money than you or I could ever hope to invest in advertising. In fact, it's really just an advertising machine run by machines, and I suspect a part of you might not be seeing it for what it is. I don't like what they do from their side either, but if you are going to pay them, don't let it be with your mind and emotion as well as your wallet.

As for preaching to choir, though preaching isn't quite the correct word, isn't that how it should be? That is, sharing knowledge and information with those that have asked (with their actions, such as deleting pages and "friends" to make the "good stuff" come up more often for example). The more I think about this, personally, the more convincing G's idea that knowledge is finite amongst humanity becomes.

Edited to add: I found this out when I learned that only a handful of people got my notice about an upcoming meeting about the Cherokee Bears.

Did you just post a link or status on that particular page of yours? Would an explicit event not have at least guaranteed a notification?

 

[Guardian]

In fact, it's really just an advertising machine run by machines, and I suspect a part of you might not be seeing it for what it is.

Oh I think I see them EXACTLY for what they are, which is why I'm leaving as soon as something better comes along....and I think WT has a shot at becoming the something better.

As for preaching to choir, though preaching isn't quite the correct word, isn't that how it should be? That is, sharing knowledge and information with those that have asked (with their actions, such as deleting pages and "friends" to make the "good stuff" come up more often for example). The more I think about this, personally, the more convincing G's idea that knowledge is finite amongst humanity becomes.

No. "Preaching to the Choir" is an expression that kinda means your wasting your time telling something to people who've already heard it, usually more than once, and are in agreement ie. The Choir has heard the Preacher's sermon over and over again, and they think it's a great message.

If we're going to "Preach to the Choir" we do that here, usually for support, or perspectives, etc.

Facecrook is to network with new people, and FB is starting to charge more and more for that.

 

[Cosmos]

Anthony Jordan talking a bit about WorldTruth.Org and himself:

WorldTruth.Org is Built For THE PEOPLE Ran BY THE PEOPLE Supported by the PEOPLE:
_http://www.worldtruth.org/video/8231/worldtruth-org-is-built-for-the-people-ran-by-the-people-supported-by-the-people/

 

[Guardian]

Anthony Jordan talking a bit about WorldTruth.Org and himself:

WorldTruth.Org is Built For THE PEOPLE Ran BY THE PEOPLE Supported by the PEOPLE:
_http://www.worldtruth.org/video/8231/worldtruth-org-is-built-for-the-people-ran-by-the-people-supported-by-the-people/

He pretty much put my impressions into words. He's just a guy who's gonna give it his best shot.

There really are a ton of features available on WT that aren't on FB..forums, blogs, etc. too

 

[Kaigen]

I must agree with Guardian, it works fine and even better as FB. Have lot more futures and not this BS posts every morning I have to navigate through.
The handling is very similar to FB. Even you can put a background, not this FB white all the time.

I think now there is opportunity to check new social network and slowly fade out of this monumental prison. :D

 

[KristinLynne]

I've been playing with the site for a bit and I do like it better than FB and Google+, because it has a lot of features and freedom. However I don't expect too many friends and family from FB to jump over and start using it any time soon.

 

[Gertrudes]

Anthony Jordan talking a bit about WorldTruth.Org and himself:

WorldTruth.Org is Built For THE PEOPLE Ran BY THE PEOPLE Supported by the PEOPLE:
_http://www.worldtruth.org/video/8231/worldtruth-org-is-built-for-the-people-ran-by-the-people-supported-by-the-people/

Thanks for that Pashalis.

Well, for those of us considering it, I don't think that we've got much to lose by joining it, that is apart from an hour or two of our time trying to figure out how the site works. If it ends up getting on our nerves as facebook is, we can simply close our account?

On the other hand, Anthony Jordan's WorlTruth principles, assuming that they're truthful, appear to be a far closer match to our own when compared to facebook. Well, he actually has principles, whilst facebook has a goal: profits (and possibly something much more complex than profits, but I won't get into that.)

Of course it's not really an "either/or" situation, we can do both if we choose?

I think so too.

I have just joined WorlTruth. I'm not so concerned with how many people I will reach that way for now, but rather with it being a much more honesty and freedom oriented (seemingly so) networking site, and therefore deserving my support despite of how it may end up, growing or dying out. It would be nice if it would grow, of course, and grow within the principles it purports to, but that only time will tell.

I've sent Laura a friend request (sorry that I pressed "send request" by mistake before identifying myself), and with more time later I'll start by digging out other forum members.

 

[Oxajil]

Of course it's not really an "either/or" situation, we can do both if we choose?

I think so too.

I have just joined WorlTruth. I'm not so concerned with how many people I will reach that way for now, but rather with it being a much more honesty and freedom oriented (seemingly so) networking site, and therefore deserving my support despite of how it may end up, growing or dying out. It would be nice if it would grow, of course, and grow within the principles it purports to, but that only time will tell.

Yea I also don't think it has to be an either/or thing. I also just joined up and have been navigating it a bit, so far it's pretty clear to me, it does need a bit of getting used to :)

 

[williamsj]

Re: WorldTruth Social Networking Site - I see a problem here

technocats7:~ williamsj$ nslookup cassiopaea.org
Server: 10.15.0.12
Address: 10.15.0.12#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: cassiopaea.org
Address: 193.107.86.210

technocats7:~ williamsj$ nslookup www.worldtruth.org
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

 

[worldtruth]

Most issues arise from plugins/extensions. phpFox code is sloppy, and it has taken us thousands of hours to eliminate a lot of their tracking BS, and errors. On a daily basis we're fixing this or that. The slow-queries are miserable, but I've installed MariaDB, memcached, and many other things. The server fees are around $500 per month, and we bring in a couple hundred from the Google AdSense ads per month during a good month. The rest we make up if someone buys a membership, and the occasional donation, but most of the time the very same staff members (volunteers) help me pay for the site.

You can see I'm just an average, everyday kinda fella here: http://www.youtube.com/user/frankymafiaman?feature=mhee
...some videos of family, and mixture of vids for WT there also.

As for the Facebook and Google Adsense, realize there are multiple ways to setup those interfaces through their APIs. Here's a video that I created to try and explain a bit further in regards to the real threat, which is data mining associated with the tracking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhx-xv-_Y6Q

Thanks Guardian for your support!

 

[worldtruth]

It is not huge for one person. Their site is based on phpfox software, see: _http://www.phpfox.com/
I use also Firefox, exclusively, and it renders contents quite well.

Their HTML code is not clean, for example:

<?php require_once('./facebook/index.php'); ?>

Oh, what's that? Or broken attributes:

<meta name="keywords" content="solar lighting indoors, inside home solar lighting, clothes off women, homemade red hot sauceworldtruth,"world truth","seeking the truth","fusion centers","cia spies facebook","do not track plus", facebook,"where can I find the truth","ron paul libertarian",freedomwatch,"fox news lies","mainstream media lies","free social network","ad block facebook","twitter truth","safe social network","free social blogging",vaccinations,vaccines,"vaccine mercury","vaccine death","911 inside job","jfk assassination truth","mk ultra 2012","columbine","sandy hook","false flag ops"" />

And then some trailing backslashes are missing (needed for XHTML strict specs) on other places. However, this is not critical.

But that's not the worst problem they have. They have some fatal security leaks. Their site can be root-accessed through a back door right now.
Thus I am rather convinced, they are not bad Ptb who want your phone number and children's birthdays or something, driving black Mercedes.

The code is constantly being improved. We do use quite a mixture of security protection(s), including mod_security, and an ever learning Naxsi, with Nginx, hardware and software firewalls, and much more. If you have any information that could better help us, please reach out to me sometime and help us. We welcome all the help we can get. I'm admin@worldtruth.org. Thanks again for your input.

 

[williamsj]

Re: WorldTruth Social Networking Site - I see a problem here

Is there any reason why the site is not connectable in Europe?

nslookup/dig from Zug or Zurich Switzerland, or from Austria is not possible.

A whois search yields an IP address of 50.7.98.157 with a server type nginx admin resident in FDCSERVERS Chicargo.

But attempts to get via IP address fail as well, the only success I had was telnet 50.7.98.157 from Austria, which did achieve reverse look up to worldtruth.org, and I was able to do a GET /.

Hope this is of help.

 

[Guardian]

Thanks Guardian for your support!

Thanks for trying to do something that REALLY needs doing Ant!

For what it's worth, I think you've got a real shot at giving Facecrook some serious competition. Timing is everything, and a LOT of people are disgusted with Facebook, including me. If I'm reading your stats right, you've gone from about 3000 members to almost 20,000 members in about 6 months, which is on par with Facecrook's initial growth rate. I think that's a VERY good sign!

Being able to network is essential to Activists of all kinds, and Facecrook is intentionally interfering with communication between members of groups that are using their service.

Last night the Cherokee Council killed the resolution to free the Cherokee bears, and essentially condemned them to a lifetime spent in sweltering concrete pits.

This morning, Facecrook wants to change me $5.00 to notify just the people who've liked our "Stop Abusing the Cherokee Bears" page of this important development.

This is TOTALLY unacceptable! I could even understand the greedy guts charging me if I wanted the information posted on the pages of people who haven't "liked" our page...that's essentially advertising, and costs money, but that's not what they are doing. They are trying to charge me to reach the people who've joined our group specifically so they can keep informed regarding the Cherokee Bear's case. Even if someone has checked "notify" they only have a 20% chance of seeing my post in their feed.

If they had done this while we were fighting Duke Energy, we'd might well have a substation smack in the middle of the Mothertown by now?

This coming week I'm going to work on creating a WT page for the Bears. I know it will take time to get folks over to WT, but I think it can be done. One thing that would help shorten the process is some lamestream news coverage. All it would take is one of your groups or pages getting splashed up on CNN for a day to bump up membership into the 6 digit range.

Who knows, maybe it can be Bob Barker and the Bears? If not us, someone else. We NEED an uncensored forum where we can communicate for less than $5.00 per post!
You are trying to fill that need, and I'm grateful for your efforts.

On another note, when I mentioned that I'd done a "little digging" into your background, I mean I read your posts going back to the 90's as you were learning to do what you're doing. I know this sounds odd, but I've read about your assorted attempts and failures, and this is a good thing. Without assorted attempts and failures, you wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of doing what you're now attempting. You're not old, but you're not a spring chicken either. You have one of the most valuable Internet commodities of all..experience.

If you manage not to get hijacked by psychopaths with cash, I think you and your friends have a decent shot at created a truly uncensored networking tool!

 

[Nienna]

Last night the Cherokee Council killed the resolution to free the Cherokee bears, and essentially condemned them to a lifetime spent in sweltering concrete pits.

Well that just pisses me off! Who in their right mind would do such a thing???