Used to use aether, gotta rant now that I remembered about it.

It would randomly refuse to launch. Network propagation was slow. If your immediate peers uninstalled aether or didn’t have it open you’d be cut off from the entire network. When it failed to connect it would spawn a new process every once in a while until it did, DOS ing your router. Moderation transparency was never implemented, I’m not even sure if moderation itself was. The last time I could use it it was infested by conspiracy theorists. There was no way to use an account on multiple devices easily. The whole ephemeral posts thing didn’t work, it just wouldn’t delete stuff, but the network never grew enough for that to be a problem. It used proof of work when posting, commenting or voting which I suppose was to combat spam, but was silly imo. You couldn’t undo votes. If you cast an upvote, you could only turn it into a downvote. If you cast a downvote it was permanent.