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You can see there that I suggest https://yacy.net as the strongest choice. The reason being that we run our own crawls on sites we find of interest and contribute the information gained to the YaCy network. This is ideal for our community, as there is no censorship.
It takes a while to get used to and also a while to get your own preferences reflected in the instance you are running but it is the best way forward.
@Empire_Of_The_Mind makes a suggestion which is promising but needs caveats: using AI to suggest results instead of a search engine. Unfortunately, the publicly available AIs are ZOGged at the moment. The AI route has great potential though.
It is a pity that most of the people on Voat, and particularly those in this thread, are not going to try running YaCy. Even in this place, people are more like sheep than goats, leecher rather than seeder mentality.
I have seen that even one committed person on YaCy can dramatically improve the sort of results our people would want to find on that network. It is very rewarding to know that you as an individual can accomplish that. If you just can't be bothered or it is the wrong time of life, add Freespoke to your list of options.
As I mention in the other thread, there is a community dedicated to search on Aether: https://getaether.net
Please tell us the most important thing: What led to their enlightenment?
I hope you hang-on in there with them and mention a few worthwhile discussion sites. Dr. David Duke is always a good one.
Since they are in the middle of the normie herd, they will have some credibility with other normies. How are they finding conveying their newly found ideas to their friends?
LBRY is a strong choice for censorship resistance. There are a few distinctions which need to be made, but they are quick and easy to understand.
* LBRY - the protocol, released under a Free Licence
* LBRY Inc. - The company which created LBRY, continues its development, and which founded Odysee Inc.
* Odysee Inc. - The company which now runs Odysee.com, a front-end for LBRY.
* Odysee.com - A website which allows you to view content mounted on LBRY
Odysee Inc. run their own servers which help host content and help you livestream if you are streaming using odysee.com. Sometimes they remove content, i.e. mask it, to comply with DMC requests. They sometimes censor, too.
Paveloom created a fork of the LBRY client which removes the Odysee Inc. blacklist. If you use LBRY/Odysee, upload using a LBRY client, as this informs the backend LBRY network that content is available from sources in addition to the Odysee.com frontend. (If you use odysee.com webpage tools to upload content, the network isn't instructed that the content is also available from other sources.)
For censorship free content, you or somebody needs to host and seed the content that you find valuable. You do that with a LBRY client, eg the Paveloom fork. THe more people who seed it, the better a CDN (Content Delivery Network) you have. You also need what are now called Hubs. They used to be called wallet-servers. Hubs help people search for content, and you need non-censoring Hubs to help people find content.
Have a look at https://madiator.com He has setup a LBRY frontend using Odysee.com frontend code. The madiator backend is not run by odysee, it is run by himself, and he hosts and seeds content there.
You can serve all kinds of files, including documents and 3d schemas on LBRY.
Here is the paveloom fork which you can use on LBRY / odysee.com:
There was a thread here a while ago about SearchVoat closing. The maintainer was pulling the plug, I can not remember why. It is another loss to our community and again proves the point that we should move from using centralized systems to a distributed platform.
How many times do people have to keep seeing infrastructure like zlibrary, voat, search voat, etc. dismantled and eradicated because it is centralized? When will people say they have had enough and start supporting distributed systems?
All of that work lost again and again and again.
If you have had enough, try some distributed platforms and start encouraging others to do the same. Relying on centralized websites is unwise and irresponsible.
Aether is designed to be ephemeral, like words spoken in conversation, comments drop out of view after the default 6 months, unless there has been interaction with them, in which case, they do not go stale.
There has been a slight increase in the small number of users lately. People go where the content is. Where is the content from old Voat now? Gone. Nowhere. Lost. Where will the content from Talk.lol be if and when it is closed? Also, gone, along with its community, which is culled every time the site is lost.
With Aether, even if every node is eliminated, if one node survives, it can keep the other nodes keep the network running till people recreate new nodes. Because it is text only, there is only a tiny usage of internet resources. The community could survive indefinitely on Aether, instead of being decimated every time Voat is shuttered.
If you use Aether, you are also supporting the network infrastructure as you are running a node. This means Aether has no financial overhead and would never need nor be influenced by 'funders'. Aether does not serve images, so there is no real issue with adverts, spam or pr0n. (You can enable thumbnails to permit viewing linked images in your client, if you like, but this is disabled by default.)
Aether is text-only. The Fediverse is more popular. If you want to use the Fediverse, the last I heard, Pleroma was the way to go.
There is a page explaining how Aether differs from other protocols here:
There is successful method called no-till gardening. You throw straw on the ground and then bury potatoes in the straw. Cardboard under the straw decomposes and the potatoes thrive surprisingly well. People rave about it.
Libgen is great and LibGenesis has a desktop application that uses the brilliant IPFS (inter planetary file system) technology too. Understand that, like many peer-to-peer technologies, IPFS will broadcast the IP address of your node, so use a VPN.
* FreeRead
http://freeread.org/ipfs.html
Readers should also be aware of:
http://pilimi.org/
Whilst here, let me plug Aether as a better home for Voat:
https://getaether.net
Instead of TOR, try using i2p, which offers greater anonymity. i2p is currently probably the best way of distributing files. The easiest way to get started is by using muwire:
The comments above don't show properly, so I am posting them here again:
A lot of people are curious about how Aether's network operates. The typical process is explained in the above documentation.
@GloryBeckons kindly [mentioned](https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=628ac172928c4) some concerns about Aether. I would like to quickly try and respond to some of the points he raises.
**Content**
The content on Aether is text only. By default, thumbnails are off, so you don't download or see any images. You can whitelist individual or lists of websites which you find acceptable.
**IP Address**
I think most people use a VPN, TOR, i2p or something like that. Your node will connect to a few others on the network in its neighbourhood.
**Associating a Node with Content**
@GloryBeckons is correct. With a lot of work, it would be possible through a process of elimination to eventually work out which node on the network was producing which content and it might then be possible to connect the node to an IP address. Of course, this is not desirable from an anonymity perspective, however you might be curious to know that there are strong grounds for making this concession, explained here in **Aether's Security Model**:
https://getaether.net/docs/faq/how_private_is_aether/
>Let’s think through this step by step.
Aether needs to be a tool for the masses. This means, it needs to be exceedingly easy to use, and be accessible for the regular user.
Any improvement to the privacy of an average user is multiplied by the number of people using the app. The most good in this respect can be done not via making sure it works for the expectations of users with extreme needs, but by making sure that it is as private as possible while retaining excellent user-experience. Good user experience brings a lot more folks to the yard than theoretically perfect security on paper.5
As a result, this is Aether’s security model: It’s designed for the average user who wants privacy. If you’re looking for an escape from corporate surveillance, or indiscriminate dragnets, it’s very useful.
Aether isn’t an app that tries to pitch privacy as one of its main features. Rather, it’s a communication app that can stand on its own merits, that also happens to come with excellent (qualified by the paragraph above) privacy.*
**TL/DR** The more people using Aether, the stronger the anonymity, and Aether aims to grow anonymity by ease of use.
**TOR**
Aether does support TOR. If you know what you are doing, you should be able to configure it.
**Protection against State actors**
As @GloryBeckons [points out](https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=628a93198b892&commentid=628bfe4b8629f), Aether isn't designed to resist a concerted attack by state actors. It would be great if we had that level of protection. For such communications you are probably better off using e.g.:
* [Session](https://getsession.org)
* [MuWire](https://muwire.com)
* [OnionShare](https://onionshare.org)
I encourage people to use these applications when higher levels of security are required. The problem is, and i am sure @GloryBeckons will agree, that it doesn't end there. You then have to ensure that your Operating System is reasonably secure too, for example:
* [Qubes OS](https://www.qubes-os.org/)
You would have to learn how to maintain and use that OS too, and also have it with you when you need to communicate. You would probably want to ditch all your hardware too and go back to something running:
* [LibreBoot](https://libreboot.org)
It takes discipline to stick to the Free Software that you can audit. You need also to persuade your friends and family to use your systems too. The task is enormous. Aether takes the approach that it is easy,anybody can do it, it is fun to use and it is actually pretty darn secure.
**Ephemeral**
By default, the settings are that your node will only retain content for 6 months. If you want to archive and have a few Gigabytes of storage to spare, you can increase that to 6 years or 60 years.
Voat.co is, sadly, dead. Aether was around back then and it would have been better if people started using Aether then and survived. SearchVoat.co has announced it will die in a couple of weeks. It is time Goats established Voat on a strong platform. Take a look at Aether. Alternatively, try https://gab.com, which has come along in leaps and bounds and is a far more likely candidate to survive as an http platform.
That might be it! Will check later. There is a setting in the configuration file which enables you to view NSFW communities by default. This might allow the client to go direct to the thread. Thanks!
Antiwhites are actively banning activists from the financial system. The banking system is another choke-point for us, hence the advantage of a system that doesn't require any infrastructure beyond that which the users already have. This is another advantage of Aether.
I think Aether's "download and republish everything" solution is to be ephemeral. By default, after 6 months of non-interaction, content becomes "stale" and drops out of view from the client. So Aether "downloads and republishes everything" from the past 6 months, effectively. This constraint also keeps Aether's network fast.
Aether has a bootstrap server, which is a convenience, not a necessity. Its IP address is hard-coded into the client. Its role is to help a newly installed client rapidly connect to the Aether network. You can go into settings and provide a different point for your client to connect, if you like. The bootstrap server was proven to be unnecessary when it went offline for 6 months or so. Aether's network functioned so well, nobody even noticed that it was offline for half a year!
OK, thanks for the feedback. As a workaround till this is sorted, this might work for you:
In the Aether client at the top left there is a "Search" tool, with three categories which you can select from the tab: "Communities", "Content" and "People".
You can identify which category the link is by looking at the first part:
If you paste the hash after the / into the appropriate search, and click "Search", it ought to take you to the correct resource.
The documentation at the bottom of the page here tells us that a Webviewer is under development and will allow us to view Aether content without opening the client.
MagicMushroom 0 points 1.3 years ago
Check freespoke too
/v/AskVoat viewpost?postid=622b4eba2a138
MagicMushroom 1 point 1.3 years ago
Nice find and thank you.
"About You.com
You.com is the world's first open search engine platform that summarizes the web for users, with no ads, superior privacy choices, and personalization through preferred sources.
You.com is more than just a new search engine — it's a movement to make the internet a place of trust, facts, and kindness — our guiding principles that we're committing to from day one.
It's an audacious goal, but we're ambitious people. We're looking for a few more ambitious folks to join our team.
We’re not just wide-eyed dreamers – we’re pragmatic doers, too. Our founder and CEO, Richard Socher previously started an AI company called MetaMind. Salesforce acquired the company, and Richard became Chief Scientist, leading the company’s AI efforts. Prior to MetaMind, Richard received the best Ph.D. thesis award from Stanford for his groundbreaking work on deep learning. Bryan McCann, co-founder and CTO, is a scientist and philosopher who led natural language processing teams at Salesforce after completing his Master's in C.S. at Stanford. Our founding team members have built companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars and scaled software to serve millions of users. For fun, we run marathons, paramotor, write poetry, read Latin, hike, and camp in the middle of nowhere.
If this sounds intriguing, say hello!
About the Job
Do you have a passion and interest in what we're doing, but don't see a job that meets your skills at this time? Use this form to send us your resume. We'll keep it on file and if a position opens up that matches your background, we will reach out!
More about You.com
You.com is an equal opportunity employer: your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status don’t matter. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace that is effectively distributed around the world.
We're a remote-first company, but work hours are generally within the Pacific Timezone (7 hours behind UTC). We get together in-person regularly as a team, but as long as your able to maintain significant overlap with Pacific hours during the workday we're comfortable hiring in almost any location (location-specific legal requirements permitting).
Benefits
• Competitive salary and equity
• Great health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• 401(k) plan
• Unlimited time off (4+ weeks encouraged annually)
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible work hours"
https://jobs.lever.co/you/52e6f2e5-10c3-4680-bb9d-4e03502d9abf
/v/PublicServiceAnnouncement viewpost?postid=63b99fee41baa
MagicMushroom 0 points 1.3 years ago
Oh, I forgot to say, try using each of the following two search terms to benchmark the quality of results you can expect on any search tool you use:
* Dr. David Duke
* Brother Nathanael
/v/PublicServiceAnnouncement viewpost?postid=63b99fee41baa
MagicMushroom 1 point 1.3 years ago
Check out the following Voat thread on Search engines:
https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost.php?postid=622b4eba2a138
You can see there that I suggest https://yacy.net as the strongest choice. The reason being that we run our own crawls on sites we find of interest and contribute the information gained to the YaCy network. This is ideal for our community, as there is no censorship.
It takes a while to get used to and also a while to get your own preferences reflected in the instance you are running but it is the best way forward.
@Empire_Of_The_Mind makes a suggestion which is promising but needs caveats: using AI to suggest results instead of a search engine. Unfortunately, the publicly available AIs are ZOGged at the moment. The AI route has great potential though.
It is a pity that most of the people on Voat, and particularly those in this thread, are not going to try running YaCy. Even in this place, people are more like sheep than goats, leecher rather than seeder mentality.
I have seen that even one committed person on YaCy can dramatically improve the sort of results our people would want to find on that network. It is very rewarding to know that you as an individual can accomplish that. If you just can't be bothered or it is the wrong time of life, add Freespoke to your list of options.
As I mention in the other thread, there is a community dedicated to search on Aether: https://getaether.net
aether://board/61e11dea56441d4a2f5244eff98090f851051c2f9982ea78f16c8f3288daf6e6
/v/PublicServiceAnnouncement viewpost?postid=63b99fee41baa
MagicMushroom 2 points 1.4 years ago
Please tell us the most important thing: What led to their enlightenment?
I hope you hang-on in there with them and mention a few worthwhile discussion sites. Dr. David Duke is always a good one.
Since they are in the middle of the normie herd, they will have some credibility with other normies. How are they finding conveying their newly found ideas to their friends?
/v/Covid1984 viewpost?postid=63a889e6b93ea
MagicMushroom 0 points 1.4 years ago
LBRY is a strong choice for censorship resistance. There are a few distinctions which need to be made, but they are quick and easy to understand.
* LBRY - the protocol, released under a Free Licence
* LBRY Inc. - The company which created LBRY, continues its development, and which founded Odysee Inc.
* Odysee Inc. - The company which now runs Odysee.com, a front-end for LBRY.
* Odysee.com - A website which allows you to view content mounted on LBRY
Odysee Inc. run their own servers which help host content and help you livestream if you are streaming using odysee.com. Sometimes they remove content, i.e. mask it, to comply with DMC requests. They sometimes censor, too.
Paveloom created a fork of the LBRY client which removes the Odysee Inc. blacklist. If you use LBRY/Odysee, upload using a LBRY client, as this informs the backend LBRY network that content is available from sources in addition to the Odysee.com frontend. (If you use odysee.com webpage tools to upload content, the network isn't instructed that the content is also available from other sources.)
For censorship free content, you or somebody needs to host and seed the content that you find valuable. You do that with a LBRY client, eg the Paveloom fork. THe more people who seed it, the better a CDN (Content Delivery Network) you have. You also need what are now called Hubs. They used to be called wallet-servers. Hubs help people search for content, and you need non-censoring Hubs to help people find content.
Have a look at https://madiator.com He has setup a LBRY frontend using Odysee.com frontend code. The madiator backend is not run by odysee, it is run by himself, and he hosts and seeds content there.
You can serve all kinds of files, including documents and 3d schemas on LBRY.
Here is the paveloom fork which you can use on LBRY / odysee.com:
https://github.com/paveloom-f/lbry-desktop/releases/tag/v0.53.8
/v/TellVoat viewpost?postid=63875662209d6
MagicMushroom 1 point 1.4 years ago
Thanks very much for this. It is good to know David Irving is still alive, let alone working. Is there a source for this communication?
/v/whatever viewpost?postid=638571d5d7762
MagicMushroom 0 points 1.5 years ago
UK: Patriotic Alternative - https://patrioticalternative.org.uk
US: NJP (National Justice Party) - https://nationaljusticeparty.com/
Australia: Australia One - https://australiaoneparty.com/
New Zealand: Action Zealandia - https://action-zealandia.com/
/v/whatever viewpost?postid=636939ad8e925
MagicMushroom 1 point 1.5 years ago
https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=63663cc334f31
/v/Glowniggers viewpost?postid=6365de5a05cc8
MagicMushroom 1 point 1.5 years ago
There was a thread here a while ago about SearchVoat closing. The maintainer was pulling the plug, I can not remember why. It is another loss to our community and again proves the point that we should move from using centralized systems to a distributed platform.
How many times do people have to keep seeing infrastructure like zlibrary, voat, search voat, etc. dismantled and eradicated because it is centralized? When will people say they have had enough and start supporting distributed systems?
All of that work lost again and again and again.
If you have had enough, try some distributed platforms and start encouraging others to do the same. Relying on centralized websites is unwise and irresponsible.
/v/Glowniggers viewpost?postid=6365de5a05cc8
MagicMushroom 1 point 1.5 years ago
Aether is designed to be ephemeral, like words spoken in conversation, comments drop out of view after the default 6 months, unless there has been interaction with them, in which case, they do not go stale.
There has been a slight increase in the small number of users lately. People go where the content is. Where is the content from old Voat now? Gone. Nowhere. Lost. Where will the content from Talk.lol be if and when it is closed? Also, gone, along with its community, which is culled every time the site is lost.
With Aether, even if every node is eliminated, if one node survives, it can keep the other nodes keep the network running till people recreate new nodes. Because it is text only, there is only a tiny usage of internet resources. The community could survive indefinitely on Aether, instead of being decimated every time Voat is shuttered.
/v/Glowniggers viewpost?postid=6365de5a05cc8
MagicMushroom 0 points 1.5 years ago
Aether is distributed, the Fediverse is only decentralized:
https://miro.medium.com/max/3272/1*CoOeROiKmvViwed1hrJMfw.png
If you use Aether, you are also supporting the network infrastructure as you are running a node. This means Aether has no financial overhead and would never need nor be influenced by 'funders'. Aether does not serve images, so there is no real issue with adverts, spam or pr0n. (You can enable thumbnails to permit viewing linked images in your client, if you like, but this is disabled by default.)
Aether is text-only. The Fediverse is more popular. If you want to use the Fediverse, the last I heard, Pleroma was the way to go.
There is a page explaining how Aether differs from other protocols here:
https://getaether.net/docs/how_is_it_different_from/
/v/TellVoat viewpost?postid=63663cc334f31
MagicMushroom 0 points 1.5 years ago
There is successful method called no-till gardening. You throw straw on the ground and then bury potatoes in the straw. Cardboard under the straw decomposes and the potatoes thrive surprisingly well. People rave about it.
/v/pics viewpost?postid=636584e1e5d15
MagicMushroom 3 points 1.5 years ago*
Thank you, Joe_McCarthy.
Libgen is great and LibGenesis has a desktop application that uses the brilliant IPFS (inter planetary file system) technology too. Understand that, like many peer-to-peer technologies, IPFS will broadcast the IP address of your node, so use a VPN.
* FreeRead
http://freeread.org/ipfs.html
Readers should also be aware of:
http://pilimi.org/
Whilst here, let me plug Aether as a better home for Voat:
https://getaether.net
/v/Glowniggers viewpost?postid=6365de5a05cc8
MagicMushroom 2 points 1.5 years ago
Instead of TOR, try using i2p, which offers greater anonymity. i2p is currently probably the best way of distributing files. The easiest way to get started is by using muwire:
https://muwire.com
https://geti2p.net/en/
/v/Glowniggers viewpost?postid=6365de5a05cc8
MagicMushroom 2 points 1.5 years ago*
Use a proxy if you must visit Big Tech websites. There are several instances for each one:
* Reddit --> Teddit: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit
* Twitter --> Nitter: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
* Youtube --> Invidious: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
* Privacy Redirect (auto redirects to privacy respecting proxy): https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
Voat --> Aether: https://getaether.net (Aether is a distributed, privacy respecting, Free Speech platform
OR
Voat --> Plebbit (Bleeding edge but available on multiple platforms) https://github.com/plebbit/plebbit-react/releases
/v/Glowniggers viewpost?postid=6365de5a05cc8
MagicMushroom 0 points 2.0 years ago
I have responded here: https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=628d2d1fc18e2&commentid=628d2e661ad15
/v/TellVoat viewpost?postid=628ac172928c4
MagicMushroom 0 points 2.0 years ago
I have responded here: https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=628d2d1fc18e2&commentid=628d2e661ad15
/v/Goats_on_Aether viewpost?postid=628a93198b892
MagicMushroom 0 points 2.0 years ago
The comments above don't show properly, so I am posting them here again:
A lot of people are curious about how Aether's network operates. The typical process is explained in the above documentation.
@GloryBeckons kindly [mentioned](https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=628ac172928c4) some concerns about Aether. I would like to quickly try and respond to some of the points he raises.
**Content**
The content on Aether is text only. By default, thumbnails are off, so you don't download or see any images. You can whitelist individual or lists of websites which you find acceptable.
**IP Address**
I think most people use a VPN, TOR, i2p or something like that. Your node will connect to a few others on the network in its neighbourhood.
**Associating a Node with Content**
@GloryBeckons is correct. With a lot of work, it would be possible through a process of elimination to eventually work out which node on the network was producing which content and it might then be possible to connect the node to an IP address. Of course, this is not desirable from an anonymity perspective, however you might be curious to know that there are strong grounds for making this concession, explained here in **Aether's Security Model**:
https://getaether.net/docs/faq/how_private_is_aether/
>Let’s think through this step by step.
Aether needs to be a tool for the masses. This means, it needs to be exceedingly easy to use, and be accessible for the regular user.
Any improvement to the privacy of an average user is multiplied by the number of people using the app. The most good in this respect can be done not via making sure it works for the expectations of users with extreme needs, but by making sure that it is as private as possible while retaining excellent user-experience. Good user experience brings a lot more folks to the yard than theoretically perfect security on paper.5
As a result, this is Aether’s security model: It’s designed for the average user who wants privacy. If you’re looking for an escape from corporate surveillance, or indiscriminate dragnets, it’s very useful.
Aether isn’t an app that tries to pitch privacy as one of its main features. Rather, it’s a communication app that can stand on its own merits, that also happens to come with excellent (qualified by the paragraph above) privacy.*
**TL/DR** The more people using Aether, the stronger the anonymity, and Aether aims to grow anonymity by ease of use.
**TOR**
Aether does support TOR. If you know what you are doing, you should be able to configure it.
**Protection against State actors**
As @GloryBeckons [points out](https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=628a93198b892&commentid=628bfe4b8629f), Aether isn't designed to resist a concerted attack by state actors. It would be great if we had that level of protection. For such communications you are probably better off using e.g.:
* [Session](https://getsession.org)
* [MuWire](https://muwire.com)
* [OnionShare](https://onionshare.org)
I encourage people to use these applications when higher levels of security are required. The problem is, and i am sure @GloryBeckons will agree, that it doesn't end there. You then have to ensure that your Operating System is reasonably secure too, for example:
* [Qubes OS](https://www.qubes-os.org/)
You would have to learn how to maintain and use that OS too, and also have it with you when you need to communicate. You would probably want to ditch all your hardware too and go back to something running:
* [LibreBoot](https://libreboot.org)
It takes discipline to stick to the Free Software that you can audit. You need also to persuade your friends and family to use your systems too. The task is enormous. Aether takes the approach that it is easy,anybody can do it, it is fun to use and it is actually pretty darn secure.
**Ephemeral**
By default, the settings are that your node will only retain content for 6 months. If you want to archive and have a few Gigabytes of storage to spare, you can increase that to 6 years or 60 years.
Voat.co is, sadly, dead. Aether was around back then and it would have been better if people started using Aether then and survived. SearchVoat.co has announced it will die in a couple of weeks. It is time Goats established Voat on a strong platform. Take a look at Aether. Alternatively, try https://gab.com, which has come along in leaps and bounds and is a far more likely candidate to survive as an http platform.
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MagicMushroom 0 points 2.0 years ago
That might be it! Will check later. There is a setting in the configuration file which enables you to view NSFW communities by default. This might allow the client to go direct to the thread. Thanks!
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MagicMushroom 0 points 2.0 years ago
Antiwhites are actively banning activists from the financial system. The banking system is another choke-point for us, hence the advantage of a system that doesn't require any infrastructure beyond that which the users already have. This is another advantage of Aether.
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MagicMushroom 5 points 2.0 years ago
The best way to try and do this is to convert a (soon to be extinct) website into a .zim file and allow people to browse and search it using Kiwix.
https://kiwix.org
https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/Build_your_ZIM_file
https://zim-wiki.org/manual/Usage/Publishing.html
https://github.com/openzim/zimit
Verify this for yourself by downloading Kiwix and and a .zim archive of a relatively small (10GB site) and try browsing the site using Kiwix.
A while ago, we tried to use a service, zim.it I think to convert voat.xyz into a .zim but it wasn't readable. It should be possible.
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MagicMushroom 0 points 2.0 years ago
I think Aether's "download and republish everything" solution is to be ephemeral. By default, after 6 months of non-interaction, content becomes "stale" and drops out of view from the client. So Aether "downloads and republishes everything" from the past 6 months, effectively. This constraint also keeps Aether's network fast.
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MagicMushroom 0 points 2.0 years ago
Aether has a bootstrap server, which is a convenience, not a necessity. Its IP address is hard-coded into the client. Its role is to help a newly installed client rapidly connect to the Aether network. You can go into settings and provide a different point for your client to connect, if you like. The bootstrap server was proven to be unnecessary when it went offline for 6 months or so. Aether's network functioned so well, nobody even noticed that it was offline for half a year!
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MagicMushroom 0 points 2.0 years ago
OK, thanks for the feedback. As a workaround till this is sorted, this might work for you:
In the Aether client at the top left there is a "Search" tool, with three categories which you can select from the tab: "Communities", "Content" and "People".
You can identify which category the link is by looking at the first part:
* board = "Community"
* thread = "Content"
* user = "People"
If you paste the hash after the / into the appropriate search, and click "Search", it ought to take you to the correct resource.
The documentation at the bottom of the page here tells us that a Webviewer is under development and will allow us to view Aether content without opening the client.
https://getaether.net/docs/aether_links_on_the_web/
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