r/kemono_piracy

Whic one would you guys prefer there are pros and cons all three of them. also if subreddit's admin contact me thing can go way faster, without the admins help posts here cannot be controlled and if subreddit's admin rejects it we can always create a new subreddit for channels only

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Please please if anyone has bestkeptsecret goggle drive or telegram link send it to me im going crazy here 🥹😭😭

Like everybody else I am sad about the site not working. And while I have the technical knowledge, network equipment, and backhaul needed to host a high traffic replacement. I do not have the storage space that would be required nor the money that would be required to acquire said storage.

I could have a torrent tracker based website working pretty easily. However historically they are difficult to get people to utilize, for those of you that were the megachads helping to contribute content to kemono, would any of you be willing to upload that content to a dedicated torrent tracker platform if one was available?

If there is enough genuine interest from people that have content to contribute i am willing to put in the time to properly set one up that will actually be reliable.

I originally created and posted my GDrive stash of BloomingVA’s Patreon audios on Yiffparty2, but the subreddit got nuked, RIP. Since it got decent attention, I'll post it here too for people interested in him. Pretty much contains all of his audios up to his most recent one; however, if I missed a few, let me know !! I added the description and tags of the audio in each of the files' details, so make sure to check that out. Kemono being so behind on his content just had me ITCHING, so I bit the bullet and coughed up my debit card. Enjoy the financial sacrifice <3

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bNE2I0qE9mffovnS2S0-L8mXYApPbFf8?usp=sharing

So i see everyone wants to get content but no one wants to pay. here is my solution if you have a favorite artist or many favorite artists simply create tg channel but make it private from now on i need the help of mods because they are gonna inspect your group and youre gonna request to open verified tg group abt your artist if you think you can manage multiple groups you can request for other artists too after you done that post only the artist's name not a link not any kind of scammy site then people gonna dm you their tg names with the link provide them and you let them in for the scammers mods can always use their alt accounts to see if you demanding money for ur tg group and simply bans you also mods can post pinned disclaimer thread for money demanding or what scammers gonna do like link that asks for your passwords or extra sus verify methods this way mods has nothing to do with

-this way subreddit stays safe

-subreddit mods don't have to control things posted here

-decentralized community

-you can search up for ur fav artist in the subreddit

-more people contributing for community

-unlike kemono moderation for channels much easier since we dividing it into little groups and each group has their own admins,mods

idk if you guys can't see other posts of the same stuff about kemono, but repeatedly posting "alternatives for kemnono?" or "is kemono dead" when there are like 50 others won't help anybody😭😭😭

whether it's true or not that the site is dead, we don't know anyway because the devs haven't announced anything, and they're technically radio silent💔

if you're not gonna pay the artists that you're following, just be patient until we get confirmation from the devs itself or if enough time passes that the site is deemed truly "dead"

but stop spamming omg

I know everyone wants to website but for now couldn’t we just make a drive maybe like one person we truly trust host it and then we send them stuff and they can add things together

I feel like the title says it all but do we think kemono is coming back?

Amidst the site being down, I started thinking about creating a successor. However, I don't have, nor am I willing to spend, my own funds on it. A project like this faces three main challenges:

• Legal
• Service
• Money

The site would need to be resistant to takedowns, which heavily depends on the hosting, storage, and network providers being used. Storage is a major concern, as archiving content at scale requires a significant amount of space.

Ads could be a solution if they cover operating costs, but the service side remains an open question. Who provides DMCA-resistant storage and networking? Cloudflare can provide networking, but it is not DMCA-resistant. Alternatives could include torrents, P2P systems, or some form of domain-specific volunteer mesh storage.

The technical side is arguably the simplest problem. The architecture would consist of a server-rendered static frontend that is easy to cache at the edge or on the client, importers for various paywalled sites, and CAPTCHA/OAuth for abuse prevention. Most of this is already implemented.

The importers are currently mocked because I don't have subscriptions to the paywalled sites needed for testing. For storage, I currently have three implementations:

• Local files
• Cloudflare R2
• Telegram

Each storage backend handles file chunking according to its medium's limitations. Telegram, for example, has a 2 GB file size limit.

The Telegram implementation is backed by the users performing imports. Users provide access to both the paywalled site and a dedicated Telegram account. The importer digitally signs imported files and stores them in that Telegram account. The server then serves the persisted data, which can be cached at the edge. Finally, the frontend verifies the digital signature before presenting the file to the user, ensuring the content has not been tampered with.

The Telegram approach comes from the fact that Telegram offers effectively free storage. However, this use case is likely against their Terms of Service. Running everything through a single Telegram account would make it easy for Telegram to shut the project down. By distributing storage across user-provided accounts, storage becomes decentralized and more resistant to large-scale account takedowns, although it does not eliminate the risk of individual accounts being removed for ToS violations, resulting in partial, small outages, but the user network can recover it quickly.

Of course, if someone is willing to volunteer DMCA-resistant storage for the project, that would remove the need for Telegram-backed storage entirely.

I've also seen discussions about other groups attempting to build a successor. I'm interested in joining forces with anyone working toward the same goal.

For quite a while now, I have experienced an issue on both Kemono and Coomer where trying to load a video or full-resolution image inevitably and unavoidably results in the specific webpages that host the media getting stuck. When trying to load an image or video on the webpage of its respective post, it visually gets trapped in loading limbo, but trying to open it in a separate tab reveals that the loading attempt ends with a "[site] took to long to respond" error.

Is this an issue with the sites themselves that affects everyone? If not, does anyone know of a potential solution?

Is there any other sites like kemono.cr