I'd like to waste these next few moments of life stating my highly respected, erudite assessment of this scholarly cyber enclave endeared to us as VOAT.XYZ.
There's a lot of wit here and it shows in the "nome de guerre" or username, of the contributing OPs. There's a type of structure to these usernames that "if I have to explain you wouldn't understand" but the articulate wit is evident in the name.
Most every faggot here understands full well what's going on, we're way ahead of the game. OPs here are no fools, intellectually honed and culturally refined most here are worthy of respect...EXCEPT THAT SHITSKIN VOATSLAYER, FUCK THAT WART. As I was previously stating I think this forum represents everything that the West is starving to recover but can't.
Most importantly is the eclectic range and blend of submissions, from DOOMSDAY PERSPECTIVES and ORWELLIAN SOPHISTRY to THEOLOGICAL FAIRYTALES based on TALMUDIC HALLUCINATIONS and right down to why the West needs more niggers, shitskins and queer/tranny paedophiles(sarcasm alert). Everything that's good for the WHITE S.A.N.E. RACE, is written here.
This is the new "CODEX"...is there any way that VOAT.XYZ archives can be chiseled into clay tablets? This way when these tablets are discovered by intelligent life many eons from now at least there'll be proof that at one point in time there were some people who knew what the fuck was going on.
There's more valuable reading here on this site than anywhere else...it gets me away from reading the 12 volume autobiography of Idi Amin.
Archiving our content is important for posterity and to enable our work to accrue. People become demoralized if their body of knowledge is repeatedly destroyed, as happens with centralized, http websites.
The problem is structural. We need to establish ourselves on a distributed, encrypted platform, where each of us contribute to the archiving using our own resources and bandwidth. An excellent solution is already here: Aether
That project has been proven to run without any infrastructure at all. It would be very hard to censor. The project has been going for years and has a lot of privacy and tech people. Start with /b/Voat
Text compresses remarkably well. Kiwix is a tool which compresses a website, like Wikipedia (or Voat) into a .zim file. The .zim can be loaded into Kiwix and pages read/browsed offline. You should try it! The people behind the Kiwix project had (have?) another service where you nominate a website and they will convert it into a .zim for you. This file is a snapshot of how the website looked at that moment in time. There was some development work a while back on using zsync to provide updates to the main download. Here it is:
The solutions above share the problem that the information there goes stale in time. Also, the data is siloed, which is not terrible, but is a problem. Finally, who is going to serve this data? It will be centralized again and the content could be unreliable, as it might be tampered or offline. We need a CDN (Content Delivery Network) and I think the best solution we have is:
You can check my previous posts for information about this brilliant protocol. A quick get started is to install ipfs-desktop and ipfs-companion for your browser.
MagicMushroom 6 points 2.1 years ago
Happy Saint Patrick's Day, everybody!
Archiving our content is important for posterity and to enable our work to accrue. People become demoralized if their body of knowledge is repeatedly destroyed, as happens with centralized, http websites.
The problem is structural. We need to establish ourselves on a distributed, encrypted platform, where each of us contribute to the archiving using our own resources and bandwidth. An excellent solution is already here: Aether
https://getaether.net
That project has been proven to run without any infrastructure at all. It would be very hard to censor. The project has been going for years and has a lot of privacy and tech people. Start with /b/Voat
/b/Voat
aether://board/f2c944108971c509c3718a43e8bc77d95d3591746241b6a490e537f00122d98d
/b/Politics
aether://board/a570802f2c5f35dff6b47c2a5db8bb2eea65d1994ad18f038ac6c6599d8a6533
/b/TechnologyNewsNetwork
aether://board/e6c159b9a2897d5b6c9fd561ac605fd61e60111d51f23027169357f0b48c231c
/b/Vaccines
aether://board/25b8bc1be03eff326d0a4b0c52fb29c8bf375bec1aeba5801bb423977e237268
If you have questions about Aether, I will be happy to try and answer.
As for what to do with preserving the content already created on (frail) http, centralized platforms, there are a couple of tools to recommend:
Kiwix
https://kiwix.org
Text compresses remarkably well. Kiwix is a tool which compresses a website, like Wikipedia (or Voat) into a .zim file. The .zim can be loaded into Kiwix and pages read/browsed offline. You should try it!
The people behind the Kiwix project had (have?) another service where you nominate a website and they will convert it into a .zim for you. This file is a snapshot of how the website looked at that moment in time. There was some development work a while back on using zsync to provide updates to the main download. Here it is:
https://www.youzim.it/
(I will post a link to a .zim archive of talk.lol later in this thread, so check back in a while.)
Another option is to use httrack (or winhttrack if you are on windows) to download an archive of the website.
https://www.httrack.com/
The solutions above share the problem that the information there goes stale in time. Also, the data is siloed, which is not terrible, but is a problem. Finally, who is going to serve this data? It will be centralized again and the content could be unreliable, as it might be tampered or offline. We need a CDN (Content Delivery Network) and I think the best solution we have is:
IPFS (Inter Planetary File System)
https://ipfs.io
You can check my previous posts for information about this brilliant protocol. A quick get started is to install ipfs-desktop and ipfs-companion for your browser.
https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-desktop
https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion
Using ipfs-companion, when you find something you value, you can pin a page or highlighted text to ipfs, by right-clicking!
If you are unfamiliar with IPFS and would like an introduction, try this video here:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=0IGzEYixJHk
I hope you are interested in ipfs and try this amazing technology.