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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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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ptt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm sure that won't happen.

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I would be too lazy to, unless I eventually encounter my 'gateway drug' to i2p.

[–] ptt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

If you want to stay anonymous, you can’t be lazy. β€” Switching to the I2P network is very simple. Once my project is finished, I can put together a short guide on the Outproxy page explaining how to access I2P.

[–] linuxguy@piefed.ca 6 points 12 hours ago

How would it federate? Both in and out.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

So, will it be a separate social network or a part of the Fediverse that will be able to communicate with the others?

[–] ptt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Outproxy (I2P β†’ Clearnet)

and

Inproxy (Clearnet β†’ 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.zone 2 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Are people actually using I2P?

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Everything will be allowed except for moderation regarding serious topics and spam.

So you're making a Nazi bar

[–] ptt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

By adding rules like β€œOnly 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.

[–] OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

Yeah it would have to have some serious moderation to prevent it from turning that way

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 1 points 11 hours ago

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.