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We've compiled a list of 161 free and paid alternatives to Aether. The primary competitors include Reddit, Stack Exchange. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Aether and Minds, Friendica, Slant. Also you can look at other similar options here: About.
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Stack Exchange is a fast-growing network of 84 [and counting] question and answer sites on diverse...
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The open-source, encrypted social network that expands your reach for using it.
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Distributed social network. With focus on decentralization, privacy, interoperability.
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Voat is a censorship-free community platform based in Switzerland where content is submitted...
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A non-censored social platform where users are incentivized to contribute and curate content.
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4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images.
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Aether is a free app that you use to read, write in, and create community moderated, distributed...
Aether is a free app that you use to read, write in, and create community moderated, distributed...
Aether is an app you install to your computer to connect to Aether network. This network is made of different boards (forums) where people post and discuss things. On the surface, it's fairly similar to Slashdot, Metafilter, Reddit, or any other community site on the Internet.
The different thing about Aether is that it doesn't have a server somewhere. The only thing the app does is that it finds and connects to other people using Aether. In other words, it's a distributed, peer-to-peer network.
This makes it impossible to censor, and renders its users anonymous. It's useful for people concerned about privacy, or pretty much anyone who doesn't want to be watched and catalogued for every word they write on the Internet (so, pretty much everybody).
It's also temporary. Whatever you post disappears after six months. It's designed to be an ephemeral space, and it's focused on now, rather than the past. Other people can still keep copies of what you wrote, but it won't last forever in the network itself. They also won't know who you are.
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