Hey everyone! 📚 I’m excited to introduce Bookracy, an open-source shadow library dedicated to preserving and freely sharing knowledge. With a large and growing collection, Bookracy is (annoying) ad-free, non-profit, and lightning-fast ⚡—plus, it’s fully open-source and powered by a passionate community. Whether you’re a reader, researcher, or developer, there’s a place for you here. Check out our Reddit, website, GitHub, and hop into our Discord to join the conversation and help grow this movement for open access! 🤝❤️

    • rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Is there any Upside over NexusSTC? Is it decentralised? bookracy has faster and unlimited downloads, lack of popup/redirect ads, and a more active community. also from my knowledge NexusSTC is more academic content whereas bookracy has more of a range of content

      • rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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        22 hours ago

        also no Bookracy is not decentralised - it operates on centralized servers much like LibGen ect. This means that while it’s open-source and community-driven, our infrastructure still relies on traditional hosting, which can be vulnerable to takedowns or disruptions. However we’ve taken precautions for this and have a bulletproof proxy server which also caches inbetween the storage server and client

        • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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          18 hours ago

          If it’s not decentralized then it’s vulnerable to takedowns. Why not decentralize it?

        • albert180@piefed.socialEnglish
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          21 hours ago

          Will you also share your collections via Torrents like LibGen and ZLib or contribute back to them?

          • rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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            19 hours ago

            yep im planning on setting up an ipfs node and torrents for our own collections are planned for the future