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.
MagicMushroom 1 points 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.