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These chickens jacking our style?
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Just another flavor. To be fair, the nexus is sorta like erowid. Everything has been done and will be done again. If I may quote South Park, “Simpson’s did it!”
there was a dmt world back in the early-mid 2000s
Tony6Strings
Esteemed member
Twas the precursor to the Nexus, wasn't it? This was a question on the intro quiz.
that's what I figured.
I think the original forum actually dated back to 1999.
I think the original forum actually dated back to 1999.
Yep in the late 90's to early 2000's DMT World was the DMT forum. Nexus arose out of it's ashes.
When I was first made aware of this new social media site reviving the name I went and read their privacy policy and it left a lot to be desired so I haven't participated in any way.
Tripsit tried a social media site several years ago. It never really took off and died after a fairly short run. I expect similar from this one.
When I was first made aware of this new social media site reviving the name I went and read their privacy policy and it left a lot to be desired so I haven't participated in any way.
Tripsit tried a social media site several years ago. It never really took off and died after a fairly short run. I expect similar from this one.
the techknowledge amassed on the nexus is second-to-none. This forum succeeds where many others have failed. And part of it (actually a lot of it) has to do with the community, and quality of posts. It is largely a self-regulating community.
I got asked via PM on another forum (organic chem-centric, with focus on synthesis) how it would be possible to improve the quality of that forum. I mentioned the aforementioned. The screening process, a WIKI page, and a self-regulating community, focused on safety and sustainability.
I got asked via PM on another forum (organic chem-centric, with focus on synthesis) how it would be possible to improve the quality of that forum. I mentioned the aforementioned. The screening process, a WIKI page, and a self-regulating community, focused on safety and sustainability.
Some definite red flags on that site, aside from some questionable things in the sec policy. Not going to open that can of worms though lol.
Little too flashy for me, but cool to see another site nonetheless. Will pass on that though.
Little too flashy for me, but cool to see another site nonetheless. Will pass on that though.
TexasTrichocereus
Rising Star
I like the nexus.
The fact they have a shop speaks volumes. They are in it for the money, and are just riding the DMT hype machine.
I really don't have a problem with people employing an entrepreneurial spirit in their psychedelic zeal. It's far more creative and better for the general well being of the universe in my opinion than deciding one wants to be a drug dealer, I mean shaman which is the major life change many decide upon.Psilosopher? said:
That said, that site does seem just a tad wack.
Was the domain the original name for this place? I seem to recall that from so be nexus history lesson...
Not nitpicking, but I'll highlight some interesting things (of many) and this particular highlight spawns off many thoughts:
So from what this is saying they're liking their site to a social media alternative. Oh that's great.. lol.
Making a site a psychedelically-tidied up version of a social-media platform, while obviously being unique and different to say fb groups - I wonder if these folks fully realize that they're joining a site that's dedicated to illegal substances, and therein brings up several things which are obvious, but at the same time hilarious:
Meetups can happen obviously between forum members [which the nexus forbids for obvious reasons aside from conferences/festivals] - I just hope they realize that there's inherent risks to doing this. The most obvious being LEO, which believe it or not - frequent all drug forums. Then you obviously have a potential other scenario playing out - two folks from the forum meeting up, possibly of the opposite sex, and there being complications with one of the said people [i.e. one person potentially being mentally unstable, which has happened on a few occasions here at the nexus, but I won't get into that for a few reasons; security for the folks that were involved being one of them]
At the bottom of their main page they have the common social media platform links, with facebook being one of the option. Excellent..lol. I won't get into all the potential complications that can arise from this scenario - but I'll just say that if anyone ends up getting in trouble in any way due to how this particular area of the site's set up - then well - they deserved it. Being set up with facebook analytics like fb pixel and such, no bueno.
WooCommerce/Paypal for their store transactions, lol.
Also, if you read their About page, whoever wrote that, especially with regards to being more anonymous/secure, while potentially helpful - it's fairly obvious that said-people that wrote this page don't have too much depth on their understanding when it comes to security of it's members &/or the site itself.
There's many red flags all around/within this site. There's many security based/technical insufficiencies. I'll leave that for another thread, as that could take some pages.
There's quite alot of data collection on that site spread throughout.
Some other things I noticed:
Their Support Us page that links to paetron, their tiered system based on per month, which seems fine, but the fact of the 2$/month tier that allows merchants/vendors to post their services/products, lol. If these folks end up staying open for the long haul - then this specific portion of the site regarding vendors/suppliers - I can forsee that not ending well for some folks, in regards to the law.
Not knocking their pay scheme, as they're entitled to do as they want.
Also to have to lump in the chat functionality/discord server/s with the $5/month 'Psychonaut' membership. And I'm pretty sure discord in and of itself is free, and there's github repos's that allow embedment for discord functionality on a website. Just funny to me that they had to throw that in with the $5.
I happened to see a few of peoples avatars - which they funnily enough were using their own actual photos of themselves.
:!: :lol:
I know it might sound like I'm being cynical or nitpicky, but when dealing with things of legality, well - you have to be, especially when it comes to security of the members providing a portion/a good amount of your operation/s cost/s ..lol.
And I know we have the occasional members scoffing at how the nexus operates in terms of vetting members, how mods run things (much of which you don't see), along with how other things are structured and handled. It's all for good reason - believe it or not.
Just take a look at that site and be thankful :lol:
Despite how they dance around with some of the talk in their security policy regarding data collection - they most certainly collect enough data for nefarious outside parties to work with, no question about that.
They obviously have a huge bent on advertising and expanding their platform - for whatever that means. When you expand like that [especially in terms of social media], given the underlying topic/s of the site, I don't see much good from that tbh.
So from what this is saying they're liking their site to a social media alternative. Oh that's great.. lol.
Making a site a psychedelically-tidied up version of a social-media platform, while obviously being unique and different to say fb groups - I wonder if these folks fully realize that they're joining a site that's dedicated to illegal substances, and therein brings up several things which are obvious, but at the same time hilarious:
Meetups can happen obviously between forum members [which the nexus forbids for obvious reasons aside from conferences/festivals] - I just hope they realize that there's inherent risks to doing this. The most obvious being LEO, which believe it or not - frequent all drug forums. Then you obviously have a potential other scenario playing out - two folks from the forum meeting up, possibly of the opposite sex, and there being complications with one of the said people [i.e. one person potentially being mentally unstable, which has happened on a few occasions here at the nexus, but I won't get into that for a few reasons; security for the folks that were involved being one of them]
At the bottom of their main page they have the common social media platform links, with facebook being one of the option. Excellent..lol. I won't get into all the potential complications that can arise from this scenario - but I'll just say that if anyone ends up getting in trouble in any way due to how this particular area of the site's set up - then well - they deserved it. Being set up with facebook analytics like fb pixel and such, no bueno.
WooCommerce/Paypal for their store transactions, lol.
Also, if you read their About page, whoever wrote that, especially with regards to being more anonymous/secure, while potentially helpful - it's fairly obvious that said-people that wrote this page don't have too much depth on their understanding when it comes to security of it's members &/or the site itself.
There's many red flags all around/within this site. There's many security based/technical insufficiencies. I'll leave that for another thread, as that could take some pages.
There's quite alot of data collection on that site spread throughout.
Some other things I noticed:
Their Support Us page that links to paetron, their tiered system based on per month, which seems fine, but the fact of the 2$/month tier that allows merchants/vendors to post their services/products, lol. If these folks end up staying open for the long haul - then this specific portion of the site regarding vendors/suppliers - I can forsee that not ending well for some folks, in regards to the law.
Not knocking their pay scheme, as they're entitled to do as they want.
Also to have to lump in the chat functionality/discord server/s with the $5/month 'Psychonaut' membership. And I'm pretty sure discord in and of itself is free, and there's github repos's that allow embedment for discord functionality on a website. Just funny to me that they had to throw that in with the $5.
I happened to see a few of peoples avatars - which they funnily enough were using their own actual photos of themselves.
:!: :lol:
I know it might sound like I'm being cynical or nitpicky, but when dealing with things of legality, well - you have to be, especially when it comes to security of the members providing a portion/a good amount of your operation/s cost/s ..lol.
And I know we have the occasional members scoffing at how the nexus operates in terms of vetting members, how mods run things (much of which you don't see), along with how other things are structured and handled. It's all for good reason - believe it or not.
Just take a look at that site and be thankful :lol:
Despite how they dance around with some of the talk in their security policy regarding data collection - they most certainly collect enough data for nefarious outside parties to work with, no question about that.
They obviously have a huge bent on advertising and expanding their platform - for whatever that means. When you expand like that [especially in terms of social media], given the underlying topic/s of the site, I don't see much good from that tbh.
downwardsfromzero
Boundary condition
Link through to the more recent thread in Welcome area: Dmtworld.net - Welcome discussion - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus
Contains many additional (but unsurprising) points worthy of note.
Contains many additional (but unsurprising) points worthy of note.
The Traveler said:
Toshido
Research & Development
benzyme said:
This ^. From what I've heard, the master coding wizardry of The Traveler is also second to none in this place. But it's people like you Benzyme, and others like downwardsfromzero, endlessness, LoveAll, Hailstorm, the list goes on and on in terms of quality posts, professionalism, politeness (etiquette if you will), etc.
There seems to be an agreed upon level of mutual respect and care for one another that is simply unmatched by any forum I've ever been on, and I've been on a lot.
downwardsfromzero
Boundary condition
Thanks, Widderic - that was one of the stand-out posts for me too and part of the reason for this bump.widderic said:
Deeper reason was digging in to some older posts while following up some 'admin' here. Funny old day, gotta love the Nexus
