cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/31443410

Cock.li will shut down before becoming complicit in crimes against its own userbase by duress of any government or organization.

For nearly 11 years, cock.li has remained one of the only public e-mail providers to allow registration as anonymously as a library card. The fact that it's still possible to get an e-mail address as easy as 20 years ago is a fact widely *hated* by international governments; at least the parts of those governments which have dedicated countless resources to target our service, our team, our family, and our friends with illegal surveillance, bad-jacketing, organized disinformation, and much worse.

A combination of these illegal tactics have become so serious that the site is now in grave danger.

The only way it's been possible for cock.li to weather this and stay online is thanks to the dedication of our entire lives to this bit. Our small team of 3-5 people have had our lives permanently altered and our stability sacrificed so Internet users worldwide can more-or-less enjoy the comfort of being able to access e-mail without requiring a phone number or other surveillance document.

Despite the constant attacks on the service and our personal lives, no one directly involved has ever been paid in 11 years for their work on cock.li. The personal costs of this volunteer work add up over a lifetime, and as we get older we've slowly taken steps back to compensate, when we should have been stepping up.

Stepping up is exactly what's needed right now, and we're here to do it. These recent issues have forced us to take leave from our jobs to make time just to keep the wheels spinning. I hope you can understand that is why, for the first time ever, I'm asking you to donate directly to the people who make cock.li possible.

Your donation will make a real difference by telling us to use the money where it will help the most right now. We have a sizable war chest for legal expenses that has never once been used to pay us for our work. Problem is, if we can't make time to put that war chest to work, what good is it? We believe cannibalizing this fund to offset our lost time would put cock.li in a worse position, so by creating a new fund we can make it clear what we're doing while keeping our legal funds secure.

It shouldn't surprise you that the people who are so passionate about this service are not profiteers or business people. We are private, unpaid individuals who don't want to see one of the last great liberties of this Internet fall victim to the criminal and violent attempts to shut it down. If these critical threats force us to change the world to ensure e-mail remains recognized as a human right, we won't hesitate to do it.

We never once asked for personal donations specifically in the hopes that if this moment ever came, our userbase would appreciate that we were able to make it this long on passion alone, and trust that your donation will make the best possible impact.

There is much work to be done. I will keep you updated as much as I can. Thank you very much for your consideration.

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In the 2022 film `COCKCON 2020 (2019)`[0], a 250MB encrypted file was hidden in a second video track of the 1080p release. You can download this film here[1]. I don't know if the encryption key will ever be released, but if it does, you'll want quick access to that file.

Furthermore, two more files are released today, 2024-11-12: ins10.luks[2] (555MB) and ins11.luks[3] (64MB). Please download these torrents and seed them as long as you can. Please consider your privacy when seeding.

[0]: https://vc.gg/film/cockcon-2020/
[1]: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:TBU2RE2ENTL6USAZVX7HH7V3TYMK2KVI&dn=COCKCON%202020%20(2019)%20(2022)%20%5B1080p%5D%20%5BOvO%5D&tr=https%3A%2F%2Fpub.tracker.aaathats3as.com%3A443%2Fannounce
[2]: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:RZ5PIPVCPPJC7JWIVU74V5JANJ4O3RXL&dn=ins10.luks&xl=581959680&tr=https%3A%2F%2Fpub.tracker.aaathats3as.com%3A443%2Fannounce
[3]: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DX6I2QFYIBYZPCP5FPRBORTQVCM4NVRG&dn=ins11.luks&xl=67108864&tr=https%3A%2F%2Fpub.tracker.aaathats3as.com%3A443%2Fannounce
  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    Don’t use inline code / code blocks formatting for text. There’s no line breaks and the syntax highlighting is nonsense.

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
    1·
    12 days ago

    Just curious, what’s in the torrents?

    Anyway, leaving your jobs to have time for your side project is exactly how we get another core.js story. Read that dude’s story.

  • Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    02·
    12 days ago

    Honestly I hope it shuts down. This provider caters to racists, fascists, misogynists and the like.

    Not to mention I don’t know why anyone would use a provider that was happy to warn people they aren’t trustworthy.

    It sounds like they are making excuses to take their “war chest” of money for legal expenses and give themselves one final bonus. Would not be surprised if this donation request ends up being one extra final payout before they close the service and ride out into the sunset.

    EDIT: lot of racists, fascists, and misogynists triggered by this comment lmao

    • DeathsEmbrace@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      To send cocks to people. You clearly aren’t a cock enthusiast. It’s a tor friendly email address. Anonymously making anything in this day and age is as rare as nuclear elements.

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      Not to mention I don’t know why anyone would use a provider that was happy to warn people they aren’t trustworthy.

      That’s the most honest statement, because that’s email by nature. If you don’t encrypt anything yourself with PGP, emails will be readable by the server and there is no way around it, some providers have automatic encryption between users of the same provider (e.g. Proton) but that’s most likely less than 1% of your email traffic, unless you really use it to chat (for which there are much better suited tools already), most the others will be on their popular service that doesn’t do encryption at rest, let alone in transit (and I mean one where they don’t hold the keys) and, if you want to contact them, you either put up with the fact that your conversation is exposed or you convince them to set up PGP

    • shaserlark@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      I don’t like the crowd they cater to but in my heart I’m forever 9 years old and I want to keep my @loves.dicksinhisan.us email address

      Ok fuck them I hadn’t seen the removed domains

        • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          0·
          12 days ago

          Context is important.

          It was made by 4chan users over a decade ago, when that sort of thing was accepted there as “edgy humor”. Clearly there’s been some growing up, since they don’t offer/support those domains now.

          • Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            01·
            12 days ago

            Thats some bullshit. There is no context in which using domains like Hitler.rocks and rape.lol are acceptable.

            If those are the types of people you find entertaining we have nothing to discuss.

      • Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        01·
        12 days ago

        Not the point in the slightest.

        Lot of people feel the need to explain to me why a service that used domains like rape.lol is totally fine to support.

        But sure, maybe you all just growing out of your pro hitler phase and I’m being unfair for not letting you grow.