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[–] 54 points 3 weeks ago

Giving people a way out of truble by saying

I read banned books ... in Minecraft.

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  • [–] 122 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    Cool idea but also really impractical? Stuff like Anna's archive seems more useful.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Anna's Archive is also a very easy target for government censorship because of its practicality.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Distributed, self-repairing storage would seem to be the way to go. Anna's Archive is huge so practically it might be necessary to prioritize the most threatened books. And someone would need to pay for the storage, whether it's in data centres or in people's homes. I remember many years ago experimenting with Freenet and Tahoe-LAFS, but I don't know if anyone's using systems like this for books, or if they have the adoption they'd need to be really robust.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    Freenet looks cool. I think the closest we get to that right now that people actually use is soulseek i guess. Plenty of people on that with stuff.

    God damn it freenet does the mortal sin of its official installation instructions telling you to curl straight into sh. No Friend I Do Not Trust You Like That.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago*

    Anna’s Archive is also available as a torrent.

    I have all the hardware needed for a cluster of BitTorrent servers for the 1.1+Pb archive torrent, what I am lacking are the 80×24Tb drives (4 as hot spares) that will allow me to run it.

    So if there is any wealthy “data needs to be free” people in this community, I’d be willing to sign a service contract that limits the use of those donated drives to purely Anna’s Archive torrents. Like, I’ll pay for everything else, I just want storage for it.

    Note: SSDs go up to 256Tb, I’m just sure that prices are equally nosebleed. Would love to play with that tech, I’m just doubting a donor would punt for that over spinning rust.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    All is fun until microsoft, like the bootlickers they are, add malicious code in their next version specifically deleting this world - possibly using hashes.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Minecraft already has a way to block servers, the community has already made a mod to bypass it

    You can literally read the source code for minecraft (excluding comments)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Sure, but this doesnt change the fact there's a corporation behind it.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 weeks ago

    This is why things like EU kids act are targeting videogames

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  • [–] 34 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Reading using books in Minecraft seems terrible. There's like 20 words a page. All the flipping you need to do to be able to read 10 pages of a normal book

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago

    It's painful to see how good humanity can be in the face of how evil some of them are

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    There’s gotta be an easier way

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    I'm way more interested in finding out how they calculated where which book should go to avoid chunk-banning. Or maybe the server has a plugin running to allow more metadata than usual?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    It isn't a server, it is a map you download and is hosted on google drive lol

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    It's also available as a server

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Any minecraft map can be run as a server, but there isn't one linked in the projects page https://uncensoredlibrary.com/en. To get around internet censorship the the project is designed for "sneaker-net" delivery so the main way to access it is the downloaded file.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

    Fun but pointless. A server is a server and can be blocked like any other. It would have been more user friendly and efficient to put the books on a webserver running on a non standard port. It could even be port 25565 (Minecraft's default).

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  • [–] 58 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    It’s not pointless, it’s marketing, to bring attention to the efforts to preserve and distribute banned books. I wish more people understood this and used intelligent craft to fight against tyrannical oppressors. You bring attention in fun novel ways and that gets people who are interested in say Minecraft, a younger leaning demographic, to the fight.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Owned and managed by Microsoft, one of the biggest tyrannical oppressors.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Yes, you recruit from pools that aren’t already members, right? You wouldn’t go to a labor union picnic to recruit new members for unionization, you’d go to the workers in the warehouse that are currently laboring in the problematic environment. Right?

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  • [–] -5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Blue_Morpho had a point. What you're suggesting is more akin to creating a Twitter account to promote the Fediverse. I understand the logic you're trying to defend and I really wish it worked, but when it does it's usually shortlived as happens with many GitHub repos, even if some people fortunately reupload these elsewhere.
    Going back to Minecraft, this would bring more people to purchase Minecraft than Minecraft players to reading books. It's not the right demographic, it's not even the right medium for reading comfortably, and it would fare better on Nomad Network pages, self hosted blogs and encrypted social media / instant messaging groups.

    But yeah, all in all, sharing books through Minecraft is a funny idea for a funny anecdote.

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  • Cool idea, but now all they have to do is get Minecraft, a nondistributed and nondecentralized product, to delete one thing. They're Swedish, so good luck with that, but the threat is still there.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    All my homies hate governments

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    This is beautiful.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Didn't þis happen a couple of years ago?

    Jesus, 6 years ago.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    It absolutely did. However, the fact that many people clearly haven't heard of it until now, and that many are being reminded of its existence and raison d'être, is sufficient justification to make this a worthwhile post.

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