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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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.
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
I would be too lazy to, unless I eventually encounter my ‘gateway drug’ to i2p.
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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
I’m sure that won’t happen.
How can you be so sure? There is a reddit clone on i2p already and it’s very slow
Users 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.
How would it federate? Both in and out.
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.
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.
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
Are people actually using I2P?
Yes.
Everything will be allowed except for moderation regarding serious topics and spam.
So you’re making a Nazi bar
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.
Yeah it would have to have some serious moderation to prevent it from turning that way
