freenet-core VS DiscordChatExporter

I just picked Dioxus to build a decentralized homepage for Freenet[1], it will be the first decentralized website people see when they get Freenet set up. It reminds me a bit of my Kotlin web framework called Kweb[2] that I've been working on on-and-off for a few years now, particularly the way it handles state and the DSL that maps from code to HTML. So far I like what I see.

[1] https://freenet.org/

[2] https://kweb.io/

I find that surprising, even in 2010 it was difficult to find illegal content on Freenet unless you were looking at it - and certainly in recent years it's virtually impossible, the default indexes are carefully vetted.

In any case, the original Freenet was never going to be a general-purpose replacement for today's centralized services. For the past few years we've been working on a sequel to Freenet, you can learn about it at https://freenet.org/.

MaidSAFE appears to be just another IPFS which you can pay to get your data hosted on.

HyperCore apparently got acquired and they are a company seeling solutions to businesses.

Freenet 2023 is a FOSS project. I'm watching the matrix server for a while. Ian says they're launching the network in 2 weeks. It is a decentralized data store + runtime. So while the original Freenet was analogous to disk, Freenet 2023 is analogous to an entire computer. See https://freenet.org/

I loved playing around with Gemini. Something loosely along those lines can definitely work. Who knows what will become popular in the future. Extreme web page bloat leaves the door open.

Here are a couple of other alternative ideas for the web:

https://freenet.org/

https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet (an idea, not implemented)

I think cryptography is a decentralizing force in general, though its intersection with ML is small, Also, related things, steganography, differential privacy, federated learning, all things that tend to decentralize. Anonymizing text fingerprint with LLMs, ML-ish censor evading algo , possibility of a decentralized vector database

btw, you may be interested in https://github.com/freenet/locutus/

Through a variety of mechanisms that you can read about here.

This Friday we will be hosting an AMA with Ian Clarke (/u/sanity) the creator of FreeNet and the recently announced FreeNet 2023.

check out https://github.com/freenet/locutus/discussions/619 i like it

DiscordChatExporter: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter

It's a standalone program using the API in a nonstandard way but I don't think anyone's been banned for using it yet.

In case anyone is not aware, you can download Discord logs.

https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter

I'm sure many people are annoyed by online forums being replaced by Discord. For a while I've hoarded servers I'm a part of with this tool. It's incredible, there's even a frontend tool they also made to browse your archived servers. Over time I've helped people find deleted guides, individuals who edit/delete content to get around rules, etc. This is becoming more of a necessity as time goes on.

I've used this tool: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter

Someone in the Discord server could try using DiscorcChatExporter.

Discord to me is like a burning library when it comes to archiving. You can try to save somethings but servers are disappearing all the time. There's discord chat exporter to archive discords, you can have an option to save attachments/images that you have to toggle on otherwise it won't. You could set it up so you could just use your account (which is against tos) or make a bot which does need to be invited to the server in question. So there is a way to download discords, but it risks getting you banned from discord. Note that being able to open the resulting html file relies on your computer, as some exports I've done are BIG and my computer being unable to load the file and read it (and no, my computer is not bad).