■ 🕑 2. │ 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. │ └─■ 🕑 3. n i n n & F I ( S o t o o e a o s s s w e d n r t m t t h l o d r r a r r a s n y y t ' O j i m l t h i u p s a " i , f s o y R k n t s n e e e b m s o s l e t e p e t e a t d w r s e y h b e s m " e t d e v s e r w o i e a r l i e i n n n m v i s t ' g t e e k a t t s r e j r e a u l u e r u s n e s s s b p r s l t m a e i a e s i o n t m s , g r r a c o h e e l e d i l n t i o n o s v o l n f g t w s e r y c u u r n u d a n e a e e p p r d , l r p 2 o n a i & r p l a m z o o . i t e I e n a b s i n d d l a h o t n n d e n e n a e p o s m d l e r s s n o s d o t t o r f p r r o s e t p r . u f t b e h 2 i s r i c a p e t i r h t t p r t o j a t f e h n i r o s l m e r y / a o a e a t w y f i d . g h e l ! e b w w i t t 3 h e n o h e . o b g u q 3 l b b u " i e ) a h p s . t o o t r i s i e o t n c s n s t o o . " n l 2 f v c e e l o r d i r r . e e n s n S t c c p u e a c t . m o t n l i t e s e b n u n t t o t t m . a t y h e g o # 1 o f b f i l g i g n e e s . t