To start this project, you 1. Install Nix and 2. Run nix run (god I really love Nix. When it work. And use IFD to not have to manually update a single hash/run a command when you update the lock files.)

If said content contain books (or maybe others pdf/epubs/docx), I would recommend uploading to one of the website that will eventually be mirrored by Anna’s Archive. (see https://annas-archive.org/datasets)

Matrix use the term of “homeserver” too

ISP can’t block it easily if it’s on I2P, something akin to TOR but also kinda different. Thought going against the hoster is totally possible if not anonymous (and there actually are already piracy (torrent over I2P) website on that network)

That’s actually a pretty good idea, thought It have some defect, in particular, each ActivityPub server have a limited view of the whole network. While it is usefull for avoiding abuse, it also have the downside that you can’t search for the whole thing that’s published on a platform.

But that could be solved with what is called backfilling (that Matrix does incredibly well). Sepia search (for Peertube) also does this.

Mixing ActivityPub with backfilling would be a really good idea. You can share metadata of ressources, have multiple instance, admin could block abusive website, and searching the whole site would be possible.

Maybe I’ll go study what already exist on this side.

(as an aside, Tribler does something similar to that, but only for Torrent and P2P)

Thanks a lot, exactly what I thought was missing (without taking the time to implement it myself). Will switch to experimental/git/unstable as soon as I’m back home.

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