About
Synth.Download is a project managed by serveral synths and protogens to provide a collection of (some public, some private) privacy respecting frontends and web services. We strive to create a safe community for ourselves and for those who accept us.
Contact
Synth.Download is maintained by several administrators, although Sneexy is the one who mainly manages everything. Contact synth@synth.download for reports or suggestions.
We also have a Signal group chat which serves as our general lounge chat. Joins require approval; will be denied if unrecongnized or deemed to be spam.
History
This section is written by Sneexy.
Synth.Download is a project started in October of 2024 by Sneexy, buying the domain synth.download as it was available, and as I am a Synth. Initially, the domain was used to only used to serve a much, much older iteration of this site that was used to only provide information about myself, and ran about a handful of services only for personal usage.
The very first server used to host services here was a Netcup VPS, and the very first service made available on this domain that wouldn't see the "personal usage" treatment is our very own Iceshrimp.NET instance.
Later on, as time progressed, I started running more services that I figured would be more useful, the next thing run after Iceshrimp would be our own Sharkey instance (I swear we don't only just run Fediverse instances here, Iceshrimp.NET was just too beta for our tastes), which as far as I can tell is probably our most popular service as of now.
Synth.Download has went through many server migrations between different Netcup VPS'es before finally getting off them along with various site and services improvements, and overall has started to shape into what I am proud to call as a proper community rather than being a silly site on the indie web (although, deep down, we all know it's still that).
Thank you all for being here, both users and administrators. It means a lot to me. 💚