Frigyes06
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Hey are you going to revive Aether? I am from Reddit r/modcoord, we are looking for alternatives to migrate communities, we are also the ones who organized the sitewide blackout on reddit
@MrLuxuri Trying to :) Current builds are functional, both official and ours. We need more contributors though. I think you'd be best off trying out Aether with a smaller group of people first. Also remember that Aether is ephemeral, meaning content disappears over time.
@Frigyes06 I see, I'd love to join a matrix chat room if you ever plan on creating one, that way we can discuss more directly and it can help attract more contributors to the project, keep the discussion alive.
Also remember that Aether is ephemeral, meaning content disappears over time.
I think this is the ONE thing I hated about aether. Reddit content can be incredibly useful when people can return to it and refer to the information, erasing high quality content over time is not such a great idea.
If you have plans to revive it, considering a new name? If it will be recreating as a new platform/brand, maybe you can take this is as an opportunity to take a second look at some areas like ephemeral and maybe take such areas to a different direction.
We certainly can't go for aether if it's going to remain ephemeral, any plans to reconsider that in the future would be great.
EDIT: BTW if you can give me a clearer picture of your long-term plans and reconsider areas like ephemeral, I can absolutely help you get some contributors, even though I myself am no technical developer, again a Matrix chatroom would be great and easier for further discussions :)
It's ephemeral by design. You can't expect every node to hold all posts it ever fetched. Maybe we could add a function to save select posts indefinitely on your node, so it stays on the network? Also iirc someone was working on an Aether archive using IPFS.
I made a matrix space: https://matrix.to/#/#aether-dev:matrix.org
I am happy to discuss anything related to aether development.
I don't know what would be required for implementation of such a feature but there could be an opt-in option for users to donate storage and bandwidth to communities they follow to allow for more data permanence. I greatly support a p2p structured space like aether and i'm sure lots of people would be happy to opt in to maintaining community data as long as it's well encrypted
