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Library Genesis (LibGen) is the largest free library in history: giving the world free access to 84 million scholarly journal articles, 6.6 million academic and general-interest books, 2.2 million comics, and 381 thousand magazines.

Telegram: https://t.me/s/nexus_search

Web: https://libgen.rs https://libgen.fun/

Related: https://annas-archive.org/

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This community can't continue to exist on lemmy.world (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by eleitl@lemmy.world to c/libgen@lemmy.world

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The instance owners do not wish to host potentially problematic content.

I will try to locate a more suitable instance.

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[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They are literally going through the same pains as any other social media sites that start getting big. Every social media site wants to be "all-inclusive" until you have to start worrying about content moderation and liability. Shit gets intense.

As for the "downtime," they've done posts about it. They are being constantly DDOS'ed by someone (assuming another defederated instance owner). And given your annoyance of it, it sounds like the DDOS is working as intended. The instance admins have done a fantastic job so far and I intend to wait it out.