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ty i forgot to clarify❤
Since you're maintaining a subreddit, you might want to create a comm in lemmy as well. Reddit has already taken down other piracy subs like GenP
yeah sure a little help on getting started would be great but ill get to it
From the responses in this thread, it seems like OP is either a fed, or, much more likely, extremely inexperienced and naive when it comes to Opsec. At the very least, they are putting themselves at risk. Is it still advisable to leave this post up?
putting aside the obvious glowie talk someone else raised, you should really, really reconsider your opsec. And I mean, really. Using discord to communicate? And spamming Reddit, from a non-dedicated account, no less? Posting PII to justify downtimes? If this gets any traction at all, you're in deep shit. There's a good reason Anna is as anonymous as she is. Cat is out of the bag at this point, I'd recommend shutting it down. You could always continue developing the code for it, the frontend looks pretty good. But please, reconsider if you have the dedication and knowledge it takes to run a shadow library and not be caught.
My opsec doesn't allow for any Russian projects at all
having a .ru domain is just precaution against takedowns - none of the devs are russian its just the west and russia dont get along so takedown requests for a .ru domain would be ignored by russia
Fair, at least as long as they're not open-source
our model is just like the old movie-web, we are open source and if we are DMCA'd then we will take it down but our mirrors will still be up but i understand the opsec point and may move from discord to signal
that's good and all, but as it stands now, it seems almost guaranteed your PII will leak. Are you okay to never set foot into a country that extradites to the US again?
Are you saying there is a way to escape my student loa*s forever?
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Seriously, I though Lemmy users would be a little more aware of this stuff. I've seen people openly saying they want to assault federal agents and government property, and now this guy
Being “private” and having a discord is like an oxymoron.
I only see a front end on GitHub. Is this just a libgen mirror?
No its not a libgen mirror - we have our own collections and are torrenting from libgen + zlib aswell - and backend is going to be open sourced in the future once its finished and ready - right now the code is very janky and im too embarassed to release it lol. Theres still alot of additions to do to the backend and once that is done I will release.
We also have a telegram and signal group - the discord was just for my existing community who are primarily discord users aswell
The backend is so janky that you are embarrassed to release it? I'm all for free knowledge but that is concerning.
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Bit gross that it's a RU domain though
there is a .org domain and a few other mirrors go check out https://rentry.co/bookracy the .ru domain is just us taking precautions against a takedown request
Looks like the GitHub also has its location set to Russian Federation too. 👀
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Why?
You really have to ask?
I was an idiot and read it as .ro for Romania. Of course I know about Russia and the war.
Still I also wouldn't comment on people posting .com-links, even though the US are fighting endless illegal wars for decades and the president is wrecking democracy for a police state.
.com is not the cctld for the us, that would be .us
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Saw some good engineering textbooks on there too. Great job.
🖖 ty
btw you say “ad free” but I can see an ad in the home
Regarding the download speeds etc, also Anna’s archive was faster time ago but then the more you grow the more you have to take care
So my question is, are there any plans for scaling?
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This is giving me Fed vibes
Fed as in?
I'm new to Lenny and wouldn't mind learning the lingo.
In the piracy world, “fed” is short for Federal Bureau of Investigation police officer.
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Thanks, this sounds like a great project! Also, glad dbzer0 was your choice of a community :)
Is there an rogue date where you'll release it to be open source?
Also, seeing you mentioned ad-free, i'm curious about this.
i meant annoying ad free as in no redirect or popup ads - we still need a way to fund the project since donations are scarce
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Based. I'll check it out and see if I can be of help on the development front. Been meaning to learn typescript
tysm we've got alot on the roadmap and are in need of devs
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