Why?
Probably because Twitter is an arm of the state and weaponized against threats to their desired monopoly on information
Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended
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#32join sci-hub rescue mission https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_... there is a new p2p client being developed (in Go) that makes sci-hub papers accessible via DOI https://www.reddit.com/r/libgen/comments/ompcvk/need_help_fr... it could use some help with indexing & IPFS integration (or just code review), see e.g. https://github.com/Trim21/sci-hub-p2p/pull/23
I don't mean to sound cynical about such projects with good intentions, but I'm not convinced this effort will last without the cooperation and approval from the sci-hub admin herself. Having said that, any alternative way to access sci-hub would have to use a p2p architecture just like this.
Looking at the project, They don't really connect to SciHub at all, SciHub on downloading a paper (using the credentials) saves it on libgen so it could be accessed later by others quickly. These just look like attempts to p2ping easy access to libgen (Which has a huge database (public), and would be sad to lose)
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#33As someone who hasn't used social media in 5+ years, what do these social networks need to do to make you quit using them? There has to be some threshold but I just don't understand how this threshold hasn't been crossed for more people. I don't want to see Twitter legislated or controlled. The counter balance and equilibrium should be doing crazy things causes a massive loss of users so crazy things do not happen. T…
It's not so much what the social networks need to do, but rather what you as a user need to do. Or to have. Or to be. You need to have sufficient willpower. And you also need to have a job that does not rely on social media to function. I.e. not an entertainer, not a journalist, not a blogger, not an SMM, etc.
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#34Re: Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended
#35Suspension of Sci-Hub's twitter account is a shame. This is not new development however, the Twitter account has been suspended since early January 2021 [0,1].
[0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20210109003829/https://twitter.co...
[1]: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/twitter-shuts-down-a...
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#36I am no scientist, and I have no access to paywalled platforms and publications. So Sci-Hub is my only available option, and it is increadibly valuable when it comes to doing research on a specific topic. - I can remember the old days of the internet, pre-wikipedia, when encyclopedias were a paid thing. And I did not have the means to subscribe to them. And I remember the days of the internet pre sci-hub, where a lay…
Not to take away from Sci-Hub, but even without institutional access, there are often alternatives: - more and more research institutes have a public repository of articles. - plenty of authors put their own (preprints of) papers on their personal website, a preprint server like arxiv, or researchgate. - lastly, you can mail an author and request a preprint. Not all will reply, but plenty will be happy that someone n…
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#37As someone who hasn't used social media in 5+ years, what do these social networks need to do to make you quit using them? There has to be some threshold but I just don't understand how this threshold hasn't been crossed for more people. I don't want to see Twitter legislated or controlled. The counter balance and equilibrium should be doing crazy things causes a massive loss of users so crazy things do not happen. T…
If they asked for money, I'd stop using them.
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#38Their platform their rules. Scihub can create their own twitter.
Edit /s for those missing the point
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#39I am no scientist, and I have no access to paywalled platforms and publications. So Sci-Hub is my only available option, and it is increadibly valuable when it comes to doing research on a specific topic. - I can remember the old days of the internet, pre-wikipedia, when encyclopedias were a paid thing. And I did not have the means to subscribe to them. And I remember the days of the internet pre sci-hub, where a lay…
My cheat code for research publications is to go to a University library on weekends, one of the universities that will actually let you in if you're not a student or staff, and download all the publications I want or need onto a USB stick.
But none of the stuff should be behind paywalls in the first place if it was funded by the government of any nation. Good luck fixing that.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those take effort and time (hours or days) to make them work. Sci-Hub type solutions are the only way to make this work at scale.
Oh definitely it takes more effort than Sci-Hub. Should've mentioned that in the post. For a single paper, googling for the pdf, failing that, searching for author page / institutional repo doesn't take much effort. A few minutes, I'd guess. That still becomes prohibitive for >10 papers sought. Then you need institutional access, something like Sci-Hub, or a lot of patience. Mailing works as a last resort option. Hon…
> That still becomes prohibitive for >10 papers sought. Then you need institutional access, something like Sci-Hub, or a lot of patience.
That's a fraction of the citations on most interesting papers. I'm not a practicing scientist (now or ever) so my access patterns are different but every time I explore a topic in academic journals that process becomes prohibitively expensive almost immediately. Even when I had institutional access it was a pain in the ass - without SciHub every doi is a game of subscription roulette.