If I ever have enough money, I’m thinking of setting up my own small server and migrating Lemmy to I2P. A Lemmy instance with the same features, but running on a completely free and anonymous network. Everything will be allowed except for moderation regarding serious topics and spam. It’s a nice thought, even just imagining it.
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- 3 days
Hard to pierce pseudonymity doesn’t interest me that much, because it’s bad enough having all your posts connected together.
I want something like 4chan (but heavily moderated), where all posts are just marked “Anonymous” and if you make 3 different comments, it’s not publicly shown that they came from the same person. It’s ok to retain the info privately for a short period, for moderation purposes. It could be ok to assign a persistent pseudonym for each thread, so if you comment 3 times in the same thread, those comments are connected to each other, but not to other comments in other threads.
This is a good article about the attractions of completely anonymous posting, though it’s from the pre-supertoxic internet era: https://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan
- 3 days
Probably not. I2P is a pain to set up, for little benefit other than a decentralized network. The latency is not worth it currently.
When it becomes click and install, and the latency is improved, then maybe.
My concern would be federation. I don’t think the fediverse is set up so you can run the same service on the clearnet and dark net.
- 3 days
I would be too lazy to, unless I eventually encounter my ‘gateway drug’ to i2p.
- 3 days
My main concern would be usability. i2p usually has lag in the hundreds of milliseconds, which would make something full-featured like lemmy kind of a pain I think. I’d imagine it would be so slow
- 3 days
How can you be so sure? There is a reddit clone on i2p already and it’s very slow
3 daysUsers will, of course, have to accept that I2P is slow. Still, by using i2pd, optimizing the number of tunnels, and opting for a minimalist web interface, I can create a Lemmy instance that’s quite useful for the I2P community. I’ll make sure it’s a PWA. I can implement aggressive caching.
- 3 days
So, will it be a separate social network or a part of the Fediverse that will be able to communicate with the others?
Outproxy (I2P → Clearnet)
and
Inproxy (Clearnet → I2P)
This can be done via these methods. Alternatively, a dual-stack instance might be a much more practical approach.
An instance operates both on the clearnet (lemmy.example.org) and on I2P (as an .i2p eepsite). This instance acts as a bridge: lemmy.i2p ←→ bridge instance ←→ clearnet fediverse Federation is established indirectly through this bridge.
- bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish3 days
I don’t see how it could federate unless the other lemmy instances are on I2P also. This seems more like an isolated/standalone idea for an instance
You’d need to federate via a clearnet url, so you’d either need to not federate (so basically it would be a forum) or federation would just render it a normal instance that can also be reached on i2p.
- 3 days
Everything will be allowed except for moderation regarding serious topics and spam.
So you’re making a Nazi bar
Yeah it would have to have some serious moderation to prevent it from turning that way
By adding rules like “Only the X community can share posts from I2P to the Clearnet,” I can be sure I’m not disturbing the rest of the Fediverse community.
