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Aether

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Open source, self-governing communities with auditable moderation and mod elections.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
Discontinued

The last update is from July 2021.

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  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Free Speech

Features

  1.  P2P Network
  2.  Distributed
  3.  Decentralized
  4.  Peer-To-Peer
  5.  Self Destructing Messages
  6.  Mod election
  7.  Community-based

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Aether information

  • Developed by

    Burak Nehbit
  • Licensing

    Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0.
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  • Alternatives

    134 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  1,235 Stars
  •  43 Forks
  •  16 Open Issues
  •   Updated Sep 1, 2023 
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Aether, and it has gotten 29 likes

Aether was added to AlternativeTo by Jonathan DUMONT on Mar 23, 2015 and this page was last updated Feb 16, 2024.

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Top positive commentDec 12, 2021

It's a future-proof social network because it's P2P and anonymous. Corporation and governments who can't impose arbitrary rules and censor people on it.

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spame
CommentDec 9, 2023

This is now Abandonware https://github.com/aethereans/aether-app The last commit was over 2 years ago

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What is Aether?

Peer-to-peer ephemeral public communities Open source, self-governing communities with auditable moderation and mod elections

Ephemeral

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. If you screw up, argue for the wrong opinion, and then think otherwise, that's okay. No one is going to come after you — it gives you the freedom to be wrong, and move on.

Privacy-sensitive

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. Aether is private by default, so that you can choose to be fully private, or fully public yourself. Most people use pseudonyms, though you can use your real name, or company.

Transparent

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. Everyone watches the watchmen. Moderation is important for healthy communities, and Aether adds onto it some checks-and-balances.

Democratic

Communities can elect and impeach their own mods by voting. If a mod behaves inappropriately, users can disable that mod locally as well. Doing so reverts all changes by that moderator for the user, and counts for one impeachment vote.

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