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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday July 05 2015, @08:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the i-wonder-if-they-run-rehash dept.

Stumbled upon this (disclaimer, I'm not affiliated and don't hold any special interest):

Aether is an app you install to your computer to connect to Aether network. This network is made of different boards (forums) where people post and discuss things. On the surface, it's fairly similar to Slashdot, Metafilter, Reddit, or any other community site on the Internet.

The different thing about Aether is that it doesn't have a server somewhere. The only thing the app does is that it finds and connects to other people using Aether. In other words, it's a distributed, peer-to-peer network.

This makes it impossible to censor, and renders its users anonymous. It's useful for people concerned about privacy, or pretty much anyone who doesn't want to be watched and catalogued for every word they write on the Internet (so, pretty much everybody).

It's also temporary. Whatever you post disappears after six months. It's designed to be an ephemeral space, and it's focused on now, rather than the past. Other people can still keep copies of what you wrote, but it won't last forever in the network itself. They also won't know who you are.

Community moderated, distributed and anonymous. Almost to good to be true, but... how do you know it is actually _gewg that's posting?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @10:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @10:47PM (#205396)

    It's also temporary. Whatever you post disappears after six months. It's designed to be an ephemeral space, and it's focused on now, rather than the past.

    A lot of newspaper-sponsored forums already work like this, although they weren't intended to. Old stories and old posts mysteriously vanish, out of reach of a Google search.

    Same with YouTube. Try posting comments on someone's uploaded video of copyrighted content (regardless of whether it appeared a deal was cut) and then check back in three years. Chances are, that upload will be gone, along with all the comments, and will be replaced by someone else's upload of the same tune or video clip.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @10:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @10:56PM (#205397)

    IMDB comments disappear too, but it depends on the specific movie - posts to low volume titles last a long time.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @11:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @11:30PM (#205405)

    out of reach of a Google search

    On those sites, are new comments added to the -top- of the stack such that old comments are pushed to another page?

    If so, when you make a comment (or find a useful comment), go to another forum where posts are permitted (but which does NOT use the nofollow tag) and post to a low-traffic thread.
    In your post, add a link to Page 2 (and Page 3...) of the comment thread you would like to be indexed by search engines.

    Give it a while to be discovered and indexed (which may take a month or more) then try your search again (using the site: parameter).

    -- gewg_