[-] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

ive made nothing from the advertisement on the home page - instead we were donated a server by snowcore to act as our proxy and caching server. No monetary gain has come from the advertisement and the storage server is paid out of pocket since we havent gotten much donations yet

[-] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

our whole model is to be easily self hostable and open source - just like movie-web (who had devs openly showing their names and faces ect in their github profiles) as for my bad opsec im just a hobbyist developer who is contributing to an open source project for fun - nothing else can be proven

[-] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Revolt.chat

ill check it out ty for the suggestion

[-] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

nah no worries i just realised i might have come off as hostile lmao 😁 ty for the support

[-] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago

btw the frontend is all open source - the backend will be open source in a month or two after the reqwrite

[-] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 8 hours ago

i didnt kno this would cause so much backlash 😭 we only set it as russian federation as jokes i can change it to north korea if you want it doesnt mean the project is from there

also anyone can register .ru domains, i got mine from cheapprivacy.ru where i paid in crypto - an .ru domain along with .su and .to are one of the best domains for piracy since they are very lax and ignore most takedown requests

[-] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago

no having a .ru domain is just precaution for takedown requests - ive been in the piracy game for quite a while and the tld's that are normally immune to takedown requests are .su .ru .to and .li I didnt know having a .ru domain would be this controversial and the github is only set to russian federation because of the .ru domain we have - if you check all the devs the times they are awake would all me western times

[-] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 hours ago

we arent monetizing the site - we still need a way to fund the project and snowcore have kindly agreed to give use a bulletproof server that we use for caching and proxying between our storage server

all money ever donated or gained is invested back into the project - we arent making anything

[-] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 hours ago

i meant annoying ad free as in no redirect or popup ads - we still need a way to fund the project since donations are scarce

[-] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 hours ago

having a .ru domain is just precaution against takedowns - none of the devs are russian its just the west and russia dont get along so takedown requests for a .ru domain would be ignored by russia

[-] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 hours ago

our model is just like the old movie-web, we are open source and if we are DMCA'd then we will take it down but our mirrors will still be up but i understand the opsec point and may move from discord to signal

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