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Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by flipped »

sanskritical wrote: post #17

I recommend Anna's Archive get a Nostr account. Once they finally have a solid court order to seize domains, generally the rate at which they get seized accelerates greatly. Nostr is the only decentralized manner (no, Mastodon/fediverse is dependent on domain names, which are getting seized by courts in relation to this -- it is not decentralized at all when it comes down to it) that people can reliably use to have a…

Better have a .onion. It's almost impossible to seize and you control the keys. YOU ARE THE OWNER, not some for-profit registrar. Onions should be the default, it's secure (you own the keys), decentralized and far better than relying on CAs for encryption.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by supermatt »

sanskritical wrote: post #17

I recommend Anna's Archive get a Nostr account. Once they finally have a solid court order to seize domains, generally the rate at which they get seized accelerates greatly. Nostr is the only decentralized manner (no, Mastodon/fediverse is dependent on domain names, which are getting seized by courts in relation to this -- it is not decentralized at all when it comes down to it) that people can reliably use to have a…

I highly doubt nostr’s suitability as a petabyte DFS/CDN.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by flipped »

pkal wrote: post #36

Some sites like Anna's Archive have .onion site for the Tor network, and others do not. Is there a considerable downside (DDOS?) to providing access to their site by those means?

I have seen Tor network take a hit when there's fight between darknet marketplaces. It's certainly an issue.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by dmantis »

sanskritical wrote: post #17

I recommend Anna's Archive get a Nostr account. Once they finally have a solid court order to seize domains, generally the rate at which they get seized accelerates greatly. Nostr is the only decentralized manner (no, Mastodon/fediverse is dependent on domain names, which are getting seized by courts in relation to this -- it is not decentralized at all when it comes down to it) that people can reliably use to have a…

Tor and I2P is a better fit. Nostr is very weird. It sells itself as decentralized, but basically all frontends provide same several relays.

When those relays get subpoenas and remove your resource, you're done. You can use some unknown relays to publish, but who's gonna use them as clients outside of the defaults? It's effectively designed for shadowbans.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by sanskritical »

supermatt wrote: post #52
sanskritical wrote: post #17

I recommend Anna's Archive get a Nostr account. Once they finally have a solid court order to seize domains, generally the rate at which they get seized accelerates greatly. Nostr is the only decentralized manner (no, Mastodon/fediverse is dependent on domain names, which are getting seized by courts in relation to this -- it is not decentralized at all when it comes down to it) that people can reliably use to have a…

I highly doubt nostr’s suitability as a petabyte DFS/CDN.

This is a discussion on whether or not it is better to use it to announce new domain names post-suspension than Wikipedia, not if it can sustain petabytes of data.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by lambdaone »

squigz wrote: post #30
tasuki wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trying to understand nostr, I looked up its Wikipedia page... > In 2024, in an article reporting on the project's funding, Business Insider claimed to have identified fiatjaf, and had found two websites previously published by this person to disseminate the work of Olavo de Carvalho, a far-right conspiracy theorist. That... seems extremely irrelevant. If fiatjaf is contributing something useful and significant to the…

You don't need "karma" to edit Wikipedia.

Some pages have 'semi-protection' or 'extended semi-protection', where a user must have a Wikipedia account which must have made a certain number of edits and be older than a specified time period.

However, this isn't one of them.

You can edit it immediately, either with or without creating an account.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by anthk »

flipped wrote: post #55
anthk wrote: post #9

They could always use Yggdrasil.

I have no clue why you're getting downvoted but ygg is a solid option but it would overwhelm the network since AA has intense traffic.

IPFS then. It's just static content, so it has sense to be distributed between nodes. Not under ygg of course.

On the YGG network, I've used streaming without many issues, plus BT. And people have been even gaming over YGG.

Altough they could use YGG for a static address and then just use IPFS for the data but outside of YGG.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by sanskritical »

dmantis wrote: post #54
sanskritical wrote: post #17

I recommend Anna's Archive get a Nostr account. Once they finally have a solid court order to seize domains, generally the rate at which they get seized accelerates greatly. Nostr is the only decentralized manner (no, Mastodon/fediverse is dependent on domain names, which are getting seized by courts in relation to this -- it is not decentralized at all when it comes down to it) that people can reliably use to have a…

Tor and I2P is a better fit. Nostr is very weird. It sells itself as decentralized, but basically all frontends provide same several relays. When those relays get subpoenas and remove your resource, you're done. You can use some unknown relays to publish, but who's gonna use them as clients outside of the defaults? It's effectively designed for shadowbans.

Many clients automatically seek, or prompt an action in 1 click to retrieve content from additional relays that a Nostr pubkey announces if said content is referenced but not available on already subscribed relays. As a publisher, you announce what relays you are currently publishing to in your identity metadata. So even if you don't specifically subscribe to a smaller relay, you can still access the content on it.

Tor and I2P are great technologies. ZLibrary, for example, runs an excellent Tor hidden service and it is usually the most reliable way to access news from the site. However, this did not remain true for a while when two of the operators were arrested. Tor and I2P require you to have infrastructure online. The point of "check Wikipedia for news" is that you can have something persist even if you do not have your servers online. Nostr is the best technology available in this category.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by monerozcash »

aleph_minus_one wrote: post #50
monerozcash wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Once they finally have a solid court order to seize domains, generally the rate at which they get seized accelerates greatly. Given that most ccTLDs live in different jurisdictions, that's not really a huge problem.

> Given that most ccTLDs live in different jurisdictions, that's not really a huge problem. The copyright-industrial complex is internationally very well-connected.

That may be, but you can't just keep going to the same US court for warrants.
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