Aether client

[matthew-piziak]

Project description
Aether is a peer-to-peer network of independent, self-moderated communities.

It keeps 6 months of posts by default. It's gone after. If something is worth keeping, someone will save it within six months – but not from beyond that.

It's peer-to-peer, and it has no servers. It's privacy sensitive because of that, source IP of any specific public post cannot (easily) be determined.

Actions of moderators are visible to users. No content can just 'disappear', if something gets deleted, you'll know who did it, why they did it, and if you want, how to get it back.

Communities can elect and impeach their own mods by voting. If a mod behaves inappropriately, users can disable that mod locally as well.

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://getaether.net/
• source URL: https://github.com/nehbit/aether
• license: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
• platforms: Unix

[matthew-piziak]

The client hosted at getaether.net is downloaded in the form of a snap file. If that is the only available format, this issue may be blocked by #30336.

[stale]

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[Parasrah]

Still important to me

[maxhille]

They also have a tarball available. I tried to make a package for it but Nix packaging is too confusing for me.

I posted my progress at
maxhille@23c34ed

Obviously not a long term solution but enough for trying it out.

[stale]

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

[matthew-piziak]

Still important to me

[maxhille]

Hey folks

By now I am a bit better with NixOS and was able to make a working (at least for me) package. The PR is at #130105.

It is my first package addition so let's see how it goes.

[maxhille]

Update: Aether is now available in nixos-unstable.

@nehbit Do you need anything?

@matthew-piziak I think this issue can be closed now.

[matthew-piziak]

@maxhille Agreed. Fabulous work, thank you!