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Cool idea but also really impractical? Stuff like Anna's archive seems more useful.
The website does say this is about awareness for children and teens at which point the actual deep reading seems less important than picking them up where they're at, so, minecraft. On the other hand it claims that while dictatorships usually ban social media, news etc. minecraft is still freely accessible. Like that's about the first thing they plaster over the site. At which point I do think you're just gonna get minecraft banned.
Are children and teens still into Minecraft? I thought they'd moved on to roblox.
Minecraft and Roblox kids exist simultaneously. Roblox is older, believe it or not.
And yes, kids and teens are 100% still into Minecraft.
I'm guessing the benefit of this is that it just looks like a normal minecraft server so it is harder to block, but yeah there are other more efficient ways to share files out there
Anna's Archive is also a very easy target for government censorship because of its practicality.
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.
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.