Is SciHub available on other social media platforms, ie Mastodon?
Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended
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#52As 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…
We need an alternative. Simple personal Rss will do. Users will go wherever the techies tell them to go
> Users will go wherever the techies tell them to go
Only if those techies make it worthwhile. How do we make something like private RSS feeds as easy as facebook?
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#53As 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…
We need an alternative. Simple personal Rss will do. Users will go wherever the techies tell them to go
That's never been the case. Users at large want convenience above all. If Twitter were to hire a private army and take over a small remote island exterminating its indigenous populace in the process, I would bet good money they would lose fewer users than if they were to force mandatory 2FA and >16 character passwords.
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#54Their platform their rules. Scihub can create their own twitter. Edit /s for those missing the point
Phone company cut my line today. They said I am too critical of their parent company in my conversations. But - what can I do? Their phone platform, their rules. Right?
Stick with the truth over lies.
Your line wasn't cut.
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#55As 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…
In sone countries twitter et al are the best way to get information that is not directly controlled by the government. They are imperfect (accounts banned, state funded troll farms etc) but still better than the alternatives
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#56Is the source code of the Sci-hub proxy open source (i.e. their secret sauce)?
SciHub relies on credentials donated (or sold) by people with access to journals to obtain the papers. (If you are in a university, your university likely provides access to many journals and pays for it on your behalf). So yeah, even if they did open source the code, you'll still need to obtain the credentials somehow. Which isn't very pratical.
Well, that's not necessarily true for current existing documents that are already available. I believe they're pinned on IPFS nodes, and so are available through IPFS. So if you did clone their front end and index you should be able to continue operating the system, at least with current availability.
What would be nice would be a distributed table that functions as an index specifically for these documents, that way researchers with access could pin to IPFS themselves and add the keywords and content hash to the table. This would be basically unstoppable.
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#57Is SciHub available on other social media platforms, ie Mastodon?
Not that I'm aware.
There's a bot which repeats the Twitter account:
That's not updated in over a year.
Alexandra Albakyan's personal Twitter account remains effective AFAIU:
Re: Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended
#58As 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…
> As someone who hasn't used social media in 5+ years, what do these social networks need to do to make you quit using them? HN is social media (we’re here posting things and socializing, right?), so I’m assuming you’re referring to Twitter and Facebook type sites instead of social media in general. I admit that I’ve used sci-hub a lot, and I strongly agree that publicly funded research shouldn’t be hidden behind pay…
I think the law (generally in western countries) gives you some liberty to express how you disagree with it.
The issue with having as you mention guidelines in line with the law, is that it prevents people discussing it. Which is an absolute necessity for lively democracies.
You're going to tell me that you can discuss the law without breaking it. But that's a very debatable point. Generally the law moves because of pressions from interest groups that would be beneficiary from a change. So banning them would in effect ban the most vocal proponents of changes and those that really understand the fine details and issues and that can meaningfully make the debate progress.
Re: Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended
#59As 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…
I used Twitter for about 10 years. Over that time, my timeline -which consisted mostly of tech workers and artists- became a cesspool of political rants and toxicity, no matter how many times I "cleaned it up", and how hard I tried to restrict content to professional stuff. Quitting TW was definitely a good decision.
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#60join 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 would seriously consider focusing on IPFS integration and indexing using a distributed table. Most of these documents are already pinned on IPFS, focusing on bittorrent requires users to change how the files are shared, and we have all seen the rot that happens with bittorrent and trackers, try to find something from 30 years ago using bittorrent, or even 10 years ago in many cases. If you want to make these documents available well into the future and make it easier for scihub users to transition, focus on IPFS.