Interesting stuff, I had heard of i2p before, but mostly in connection with darknet and not yet with torrenting, but it‘s something I might play around with now that I know.

That and repost bots, keeping some artificial copy of the community that used to be alive indefinitely.

Yeah, the way Musk bragged about engagement while he burned down Twitter made me wary of even loading Reddit now. No way am I giving that shithead spez the satisfaction to see some, any line go up, if it does anyway it won‘t be because of me.

I bet so many of us work in IT lmao, we absolutely could do all of that. Issue is that most western people are at risk of law enforcement, just look at a bit of this:

https://www.reuters.com/world/british-man-gets-22-months-prison-over-global-movie-piracy-us-judge-2022-02-07/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/02/last-remaining-pirate-bay-founder-freed-from-jail-fredrik-neij

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/german-piracy-sentenced-jail-276076/

https://ca1.topnews.media/2023/06/15/in-new-zealand-two-men-who-helped-run-the-popular-pirate-site-megaupload-were-sentenced-to-prison-2/

Or look at Aaron Swartz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

What he got slapped with trying to “steal” (COPY) intellectual "property“ from a university, which hoards knowledge like a dragon.

That we rely on Russians mainly for our shadow libraries is just one twisted facet of how this whole system is messed up. We could share all information and all human knowledge, with everyone for free!! We could have managed it technologically a decade ago. The monetary cost is so small nerds can now do it alone in their basement.

People could educate themselves to university levels and get reading comprehension like never seen before. I learned English mostly through books from these online libraries cause I was far from any IRL library in rural Austria and poor. Without it I would have stayed small minded like I was at 18 voting for conservatives.

Christians preach of sharing, many religions do, yet they (self proclaimed religious politicians and CEOs) put those who want to share it all into the farthest corners of the internet and in prison. To pretend like this possibility doesn‘t exist and one needs to be well off to afford books and go to some special place to get an education. All to make line go up.

Reasonable rules really, lets hope we just fly under the radar.

Nice, I just joined too and am already enjoying this community and the whole lemmy thing in general. Some weird stuff about it like instances defederating each other is new to me, but I think I can get used to posting more on here.

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