Full thread below detailing all the news, updates, progress & more of our incredible next generation social media development project!
Follow along with me and please share to help spread the news that it's out :) Video link at end of thread
Thanks to the generous support of our community, Panquake now employs 9 full time staff! We've regained all the ground we lost from PayPal censoring us & withholding our funds, & we've raised another $4,551 on top of that, picking up 127 new donors & 113 new @pan_quake followers
We've had another HUGE month of development progress, designing the 8 microservices which will compartmentalise (& make easily extensible for scaleability) the delivery of various types of Panquake data to our users. This is best practice & discussed in much greater detail in vid
Many people have asked where Panquake is hosted and why. We are happy to confirm that all Panquake data and services are hosted in Iceland - both because it is a bastion of internet freedom & because Iceland is 100% sustainable, green energy, aligning with our ethics & principles
As quite a few of you will know, in July we opened our BETA application process, and this month we briefly recapped our BETA delivery strategy. You can sign up to be one of our BETA team of 5,000 trusted users at this link: panquake.com/5000 & reserve your user handle now!
Every month a Panquake staffer writes an open letter to share with our community their experiences of working for Panquake. This month's letter is from our lead Graphic Designer. She recaps her journey from creating the @pan_quake logo to helping to design the @tl_eng branding
Speaking of Talk Liberation, some people asked why Panquake launched a news service in the middle of a software development project! A valid question, so we discussed the many reasons Talk Liberation serves our community as well as enhances Panquake, at today's delivery meeting.
From monitoring what police/intelligence agencies are up to on social media, to tracking law & compliance implications & censorship activities by governments & corporations, talkliberation.substack.com is a one stop shop for all the internet news that Panquake supporters need to know
Transparency is super important to us so we elected to share Talk Liberation's subscription stats with the Panquake community & will do so each month so you can track our progress with us. Our conversion & penetration rates are MUCH higher than usual for a free newsletter format
We've started to receive significant tips & news exclusives from people in our network so @seanodiggity & myself will be publishing deep dive investigations on highly relevant topics to an upcoming new section of talkliberation.substack.com we are calling Talk Liberation Investigates
Thus concluded our August monthly public delivery meeting! Due to staff being on summer holidays we were a couple days late this month (first time ever!) but will be back with bells on September 25th with more detailed progress reports, campaign statistics & development metrics
As for when we will be able to deliver Panquake? That depends on you! Word of mouth drives this project, so the more you talk about us to the people you care about, the faster word spreads, the greater the contributions to gogetfunding.com/panquake, the sooner Panquake is completed
And if you would like to support us with a recurring donation, you can do so monthly or annually and receive awesome and relevant written and video content every single week by subscribing to Talk Liberation - Your Worldwide Internet Report at talkliberation.substack.com
FULL EVENT VIDEO
Watch and share the full Panquake August Public Delivery Event here:
All the latest news & updates on PQ development progress, including the exciting announcement that we are now ready to show the world the look & feel of the PQ interface!
Follow the thread for more details:
You can see the full public delivery meeting video here: vimeo.com/683644353 featuring myself & @seanodiggity presenting @Panquake news and updates, as we do every single month!
Our crowdfunding campaign is at $172,400+ raised so far. Donate here: panquake.com/donate
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You may have noticed the recent tweet by @JohnKiriakou endorsing PQ.
John is one of the first people in the world to see the PQ application working & described it as 'futuristic'.
It was huge for us to get to demo PQ for him in this way & we can't wait til you can see it too!
Ppl constantly ask me for my opinion on what is going on. When I give it, many assume I am coming from a fixed position. Actually, every single day I consume the following:
I also watch all the press conferences, be they pro or anti Western position
When you review such a spectrum of media content on a regular basis you see the way single events are skewed not just by one of two sides, but by every single outlet
They ALL have their own slants
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I also watch both left & right wing podcasts & you tube shows. I follow & watch people I like and ideologically align with AND those who I don't, every single day
Living in Russia, I also have real world experience/perspective
As for @Panquake dev progress last month we revealed our interface had functioning elements in place. This month, the core structural components are basically complete
Our drag & drop panels move around & reset correctly & are now customizable - resizable, pop-outable & more
First thing I see: the site uses tracking cookies.
Second thing I see: it collects email addresses & phone numbers.
Third thing I see: Advertising on its dashboard.
That isn't alternative social media.
It's the same old data surveillance rehashed.
Having a closer look. Here's their privacy policy. Which is basically an anti-privacy policy.
GETTR is registered in the United States & thus subject to US jurisdiction.
So, it's Parler 2.0.
After some lip service to claiming they only collect what you voluntarily give them (incl your SEARCHES!), scroll down a little bit further & find they actually fingerprint your browser, device & router info
(Panquake is engineered to avoid capturing of ANY of this information)
Last week, we hit our Phase 2 funding target of 167k and launched Phase 3, where we will raise an additional 500k to complete the service delivery of the product. More details about this later.
Incidentally, to celebrate Phase 3 I got some cool new graphic templates :P
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In terms of general campaign progress, we're ecstatic to have the final goalposts in sight and will work to meet the final target as fast as possible.
In the meantime, we are progressing the blockchain build & performing the BETA delivery vetting for our first 5,000 users