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| Published: 2024-10-27 [Sun] 14:28, by |
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Once you cut spam out of the equation, per month multichan maybe had 3 or 4 non-spam users posting, and I suspect at least half of them post here. To the best of my knowledge, 0chan was the only multichan node up. If you do with to host your own node, be informed the moderation tools are subpar. I will be releasing the full set of posts and tags this week on github if you want to restart the project. Multichan works fine on Tor and Tor and clearnet instances can even talk together. I was thinking about how to improve on multichan. Anonymity + federation = spam, a hypothesis verified by NNTPchan, Multichan, and Fchannel all alike. I was thinking: what about a *chan based around the use of PGP keys? it would reduce spam and make it easier for users/instances to filter out low quality content. Then I stumbled upon Nostr protocol... I'm debating whether to make a proper multichan sequel with PGP support and better moderation tools, building on multichan/pohon source, or building a *chan-like frontend for Nostr network. While Nostr is less anonymous than multichan, it is much more resilient and gives users a ton of great tools. Nostr is intended to be a microblogging-like service, but it isn't necessarily one. There are wiki, blog, and market softwares built on the protocol. (not to mention, end-to-end encrypted messaging) See some Nostr-verse software here: http://nostr.net/ Even though multichan had cool ideas, spam was a nightmare and for... 2 years? there has been to my knowledge only one node operating, and it got very little traffic. So I simply didn't see any point to make it keep living and put it out of its misery. If you can convince me why it should be brought back, I'll consider it, as a subdomain here or on //4x13.net If there is to be a multichan2 at some point, aside from PGP, I would also like it to maintain a living archive of all known textboards and make it easy for people to scrape other sources to generate threads. This was part of my plan for multichan from the start although I never got around to it. |
| #1. multichan/0chan.vip down |
| Published: 2024-10-24 [Thu] 17:37, by |
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0chan.vip (multichan) is down. unavailable. the last bastion of truth & freedom. a truly decentralized federated multichan bbs without js bloat. bring it back. pohon is not a replacement because it's not a decentralized multichan. |