Chances are they were already aware of us, but also wtf who the fuck cares about us that much that they would do that. Our haters have some wild priorities.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It was me. I promise I am no hater of HB. It's an awesome site with great people. I put the request in as a response to a post asking someone to make a FOIA request.. The response then was positive. Last thing I want is to cause site drama. There's a discussion here: https://hexbear.net/comment/5784821

[–] nandos_house_of_glues@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

with regards to the "encouragement" thread, people here are always posting under a thousand layers of irony, but talking to or inquiring with the feds for any reason is generally a bad idea, and i don't really care about how minor or fruitless it seems to some. it costs you absolutely nothing to not contact the feds.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It could've been interesting though if they did have something on us. It would've been worth it to know and doesn't really cost us anything that they made the request. People are making these requests all the time, literally anyone can do it. YouTubers, podcasters, journalists, there are so many frivolous requests, it's not that big a deal. We're not all suddenly going to get swatted or get a file because some office stone had to do a ctrl-f in their database for some dumb, niche website. This site is nothing compared to the more public facing organizations that do actual work in the real world.

[–] MouthyHooker@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah the FOIA backlog is absurd. Ken Klippenstein was just complaining about it recently.

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago

I thought it was funny sans-shrug