The Reach of Techrights Has Broadened
This week is the last week of our annual holiday. Last week was a record week for us in gemini://, and in HTTP/S as well we had a good week, seeing that several of our articles had struck a nerve. Even in IRC we reached a new high (number of online users).
Techrights isn't a new site; it's active every day - without exception - and it is a relatively old site. I was literally a student when it started. All the old articles were composed while I was at the university, seeing that a midnight "shift" worked for me (I'd come into the lab at night when it was quiet) and sitting there typing on my - or the university's - computer. The Web was a very different thing back then. WordPress was still relatively new and bots weren't the majority of Web traffic (far from it). People didn't browse the Web from phones (or very seldom did; old feature-phones could not handle the complexities of "modern" browsers of that time). RSS feeds were gaining in popularity and social control media was still in its diapers.
We nowadays cover a broader range of issues - the breadth is due to changes and new, emergent threats - and we have zero dependence on social control media or third parties. This makes us very hard to censor.
We got a lot of our inspiration from Groklaw, a site that not only got hijacked but also has a new "logo" (see below). It's getting worse each time we check. █
