Cool idea but also really impractical? Stuff like Anna's archive seems more useful.
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Giving people a way out of truble by saying
I read banned books ... in Minecraft.
There’s gotta be an easier way
Wouldn't it be easier to put the books in a torrent?
Easier, yes. Less obvious, no.
All it takes is 1 bad person to speak out on this Minecraft library and the whole thing comes crashing down. Not very resilient, or am I missing something
It's years old now and there's like a factor of 1000 more banned books. The book banning, while real, was always virtue signaling. So they were likely not thorough because they didn't have to be. It's far more efficient and effective to spread your seeds far and wide, scream about it, and then continue to light everything on fire and change laws and promote people and fire people and support companies, and harass doctors, etc. It's political idealism culture cold war carpet bombing, and is extremely effective.
They offer users to download a map, which is how there could be thousands of copies of this library on everyone's computers.
It's not just a Minecraft server.
But then it wouldn't be self-advertising via random "Top 80 facts you should know!!111" videos.
All is fun until microsoft, like the bootlickers they are, add malicious code in their next version specifically deleting this world - possibly using hashes.
Minecraft already has a way to block servers, the community has already made a mod to bypass it
You can literally read the source code for minecraft (excluding comments)
Sure, but this doesnt change the fact there's a corporation behind it.
So port it to luanti
Reading using books in Minecraft seems terrible. There's like 20 words a page. All the flipping you need to do to be able to read 10 pages of a normal book
Fun but pointless. A server is a server and can be blocked like any other. It would have been more user friendly and efficient to put the books on a webserver running on a non standard port. It could even be port 25565 (Minecraft's default).
It’s not pointless, it’s marketing, to bring attention to the efforts to preserve and distribute banned books. I wish more people understood this and used intelligent craft to fight against tyrannical oppressors. You bring attention in fun novel ways and that gets people who are interested in say Minecraft, a younger leaning demographic, to the fight.
Owned and managed by Microsoft, one of the biggest tyrannical oppressors.
Yes, you recruit from pools that aren’t already members, right? You wouldn’t go to a labor union picnic to recruit new members for unionization, you’d go to the workers in the warehouse that are currently laboring in the problematic environment. Right?
Non standard ports have been incredibly ineffective as a security measure for a long time.
It's not security. It's a website with books. The landing page can be whatever so that it is inconspicuous.
It's painful to see how good humanity can be in the face of how evil some of them are
I'm way more interested in finding out how they calculated where which book should go to avoid chunk-banning. Or maybe the server has a plugin running to allow more metadata than usual?
It isn't a server, it is a map you download and is hosted on google drive lol
It's also available as a server
Any minecraft map can be run as a server, but there isn't one linked in the projects page https://uncensoredlibrary.com/en. To get around internet censorship the the project is designed for "sneaker-net" delivery so the main way to access it is the downloaded file.
Cool idea, but now all they have to do is get Minecraft, a nondistributed and nondecentralized product, to delete one thing. They're Swedish, so good luck with that, but the threat is still there.
Didn't þis happen a couple of years ago?
Jesus, 6 years ago.
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