Convenient
Forget about looking for platforms to serve your content. Deploy locally and let your biggest fans serve it for you.
The SAMIZDAT SYSTEM
Your content, available.
SAMIZDAT is a distributed self-publishing system. Publish and view content you love on the Internet without meddling intermediaries!
All Samizdat Software is Free Software and is fully available free of charge.
How it works
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Build your site locally, in your own computer.
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Publish to the Samizdat network, a peer-to-peer content distribution system.
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People who visit your site will propagate your ideas further, using their cache.
What's different
No registrar. No DNS. No platform.
Samizdat
http://localhost:4510/~samizdat-blog/
http://localhost:4510/~get-samizdat/
The Web
https://medium.com/@author
https://github.com/tokahuke/samizdat
That localhost is not a dev server. Your Samizdat node
lives there, pulling content from the rest of the network.
This webpage is already part of the SAMIZDAT network
And you didn't even notice! If you just landed here, you are seeing a proxied version of this website. But why rely on an intermediary? Download SAMIZDAT and get the native experience.
PROXY …
The upside
Private
Only the parties serving and receiving content know what it is all about. No corporation-in-the-middle; no government-in-the-middle.
Uncensorable
No central kill-switch. Your content sits on the disks of people who chose to host it. There is no platform to deplatform you from.
Free
Free Software. AGPLv3 licensed. No fee, no rent, no enterprise tier; just download and go.
It's just the Web all over again. But think of the possibilities!
By structuring the Web on content rather than on location, we bypass the the big servers and the big companies. Your content is not on Google or on Meta; it's with your audience.