"You can upload your research and publish it on the open web. Members of the community will be able to vote on your research to raise its visibility."<p>Oh dear.
Hey Hugo, do you have an email I could reach you at? I've been thinking/working on these problems for 3 years now and would love to find some smart people to partner with to further develop the ideas. I don't have much to show publicly right now, but <a href="https://intpub.org/" rel="nofollow">https://intpub.org/</a> (soon to be scipub.app) is the start.
From the repo [1]:<p>"research publishing platform that is community based, transparent and <i>censorship resistant</i>" (my emphasis)<p>"Community members moderate the platform and <i>can increase or decrease the visibility of the uploaded files</i>" (again, my emphasis)<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/hugoroussel/xirva" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/hugoroussel/xirva</a>
Just a heads up comment, it seems some of the IPFS links are broken. For example I just visited <a href="https://www.xirva.org/categories/cs.AI" rel="nofollow">https://www.xirva.org/categories/cs.AI</a> and all links point to an "undefined" path example <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/undefined/2107.00082.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://ipfs.io/ipfs/undefined/2107.00082.pdf</a><p>But overall, great idea!
Build this during an hackathon where I felt like that arXiv was in grand need of a small face lift. Currently not all articles are uploaded. The repository is here : <a href="http://github.com/hugoroussel/xirva" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/hugoroussel/xirva</a>
Ah cool… I also took a stab at something similar several years ago: <a href="https://github.com/ecausarano/heron" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ecausarano/heron</a><p>Also at the time I was considering IPFS.<p>But I guess the real trick is implementing a WOT to implement peer review and filter out the inevitable junk that will be published
Doesn't seem to work (I don't have a local gateway on this machine):<p><a href="https://www.xirva.org/list/eess.IV/2011/2011.00052" rel="nofollow">https://www.xirva.org/list/eess.IV/2011/2011.00052</a><p>Brings me to <a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/undefined/2011.00052.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://ipfs.io/ipfs/undefined/2011.00052.pdf</a><p>which says:
invalid ipfs path: invalid path "/ipfs/undefined/2011.00052.pdf": invalid CID: expected 1 as the cid version number, got: 31965309853
Hmm, my Firefox here on Ubuntu does not trust that CA for some reason. And clicking "Accept the risk and continue" seems to just land me back at the "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead" page.
I get an error on several articles to the effect of:<p>invalid ipfs path: invalid path "/ipfs/undefined/2107.00648.pdf": invalid CID: expected 1 as the cid version number, got: 31965309853
Wow looks super nice, feels so easy to navigate and read, I was thinking it would be nice to have a RSS feed for some topics to read as news.
Great work!