OOF

Having the uploader be liable for copyright infringement will kill MD for obvious reasons

Oh no... Is there no alternative as of now? (I use J2K)

And what is in your eyes the difference to MD having the liability? Both are fans doing things for the community.

The person writing the statement in the OP knows it's bad to be liable but expects the persons making MD to take that liability instead of themselves. Strange thought to me.

I'm only a reader myself, but I still thought everybody involved knew that the possibility of an DMCA takedown always existed and kept as much anonymity as possible to escape it.

In my opinion this could even strengthen everybody:
If MD doesn't save anything identifying the uploaders, so no IPs and just the username and password, and the uploaders are smart enough to not have identifying things used in combination with MD, then it should make it harder for the publishers to duck everything up like now.

A Mangadex alternative that are decentralized via ActivityPub, where groups can host their own instance with P2P image hosting seems cool.

Imagine having your manga updates directly showed on feed (if you want, some group release on Facebook already doing this, mostly oneshot).