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The last two replies before me, recommended a website that had been throughfully compromised, twice.
Centralization is exactly what leads to these issues. Being on Lemmy, one would think there would be more mirrors of sources on TOR, I2P, SimpleX, GNUNet, etc.. A friend of mine even showed me an onion group that strictly publishes scanlateds on webp format. I'm still financially ruined to resume my mangadouga format.
So a site gets compromised, fixes it quite thoroughly (they even completely took it down for quite some time) and you no longer trust it?
Also, twice? Both your sources refer to the same incident.
The decentralized nature of Lemmy is hardly the reason I'm using it and I think I'm not remotely alone in this. In fact, I think it has a lot of downsides, particularly in regards to usability.
Are you trying to lead somewhere with this? Or can you empathize the diaspora of sourcing?
Why do we need “Mangadex, but also bato.to, Manga Plus and some group specific sources. Also Komga,” when you should just be able to connect on a p2p, and find your manga, in your scan group[s] of choice and language selection? What happened to sourcing?
I think the main issue here is that not every group that provides free scanlations has the technical know-how (or the interest) to tackle the issue. They see the easy and open platform of sites like MD or Bato, and use it to upload to a bigger user base.
I don't necessarily after nor disagree with this, but after 30 years in IT I am not surprised at all.
I’m extremely aware of this. But I’m still too financially destitute to even tackle a simple manga format. May our influence reach further readers than just the technological illiterate.
I'm trying to say I don't agree with your stance that we should use P2P and decentralize everything.
Then enjoy the nth time any of those sites get taken down.