Project Odin release is planned soon
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Right? My speculation on this announcement from CM goes one of two ways
either its ready in terms of development / feature maturity, and therefore ought be released, independent of any need for it to be 'out there' in the wild, or
its needed on the basis that a massive deplatforming effort is detected and inbound, and ODIN is a hoped-for means to counter this.
Hoping that 8kun is set to weather any storm that is rolling their way, if the worst happens and they are removed from the clearnet via stealing their domain or DDOS attacks, then they ought still be reachable via their tor onion service or on lokinet.
So perhaps its timely for people to reacquaint themselves with other means of reaching 8kun.
Twitter comments says it's been ready for a while (months) and hes been waiting for the best time to release it.
It would be nice if it was a broader net-wide application...I'm pretty sure I've been shadow banned on Twitter or whatever you want to call it...views/comments had significant reduction after posting a q hashtag after the recent bans of q related accounts.
Most of what you said went over my head
Connection methods for 8kun are listed on Jim Watkins' site, who runs/owns 8kun, if you wanna read up some more and try out the alternatives.
https://isitwetyet.com/8kun/
I dont think its a 'defeat shadow banning' kind of thing, to me it sounds like a distributed copy of 8kun that's both a local copy you can access to read and/or post on, as well as share out to others. So trying to make the whole website peer-to-peer in a sense, and more resistant to attack in being so. I'm really intrigued to check this one out ASAP as soon as its released!
I keep seeing this. What is Project Odin, or where can I learn more?
Main page is https://isitwetyet.com/odin/ and as you can see, its not exactly descriptive. Most info on what the purpose is has been dropped on places like Jims twitter, or on the livestreams that he does now and then. Which makes it quite piecemeal without a great way of aggregating and connecting the dots.
The best of what we know is that its a software-based means to resist de-platforming attacks, think its supposed to work with 8kun but might be a general enough tech stack to apply to other websites and perhaps other protocols. We just dont know yet..
Interesting link - same name, dissimilar technology. Also interesting that there is mention of loki & thor. Lokinet being an alternate networking protocol that can access 8kun among other places..
I dont think the average normie needs hardened biometric security systems that try and detect countermeasures and uncover imposters just yet. But I could see that being pretty useful for secure access areas.