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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • You can only federate via tor or i2p if both sides support those protocols, because for federation to work between two nodes both nodes need to be able to initiate connections to the other. That means one-way bridges like tor exit nodes are not sufficient.

    I’d guess most Fediverse servers don’t support either of those protocols, so any new server trying to federate solely through them would have an extremely limited view of the Fediverse.

    Though I suppose theoretically nothing is really preventing a motivated group of server admins from setting up a parallel “dark Fediverse” containing only onion sites.














  • I’m not going to claim it hasn’t been a major topic in the selfhosted community lately, but that’s just because it’s a new service people have just discovered and are interested in selfhosting. But the selfhosted community is for people hosting servers of all kinds themselves. Not just enthusiasts either – on /r/selfhosted I’ve seen people hosting servers at their workplaces as well.

    As to whether to leave the post, I’ll leave that up to the moderators.