Given the US recently made a bid to fast-track multiple censorship bills, KOSA included, and is also trying to kill Section 230 now, which will pose an existential threat to Fediverse instances hosted over the clearnet, how feasible would it be to host said instances over Tor/I2P?

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've heard of TOR, not of I2P. Are they both programs to anonymise other programs? I didn't know it was possible to anonymise an entire instance! Would be cool if that were possible.

[–] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 13 points 1 day ago

I2P is like Tor but peer-to-peer and as a result more decentralized, IIRC.

[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

I believe I2P is more for things like torrents.

I've been meaning to test it out (I seem to remember that it's possible to run it side by side), but haven't got a chance yet.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I didn’t know it was possible to anonymise an entire instance

I mean, that works pretty much like any server on the web, now that most communication is done via http. However, websockets, http/2 and /3 might break, I guess, when they expect a continuous connection.

(Dunno which underlying protocols Lemmy uses, so can't guarantee that it's really that easy.)

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

I don't know what any of those terms mean. If it were easy, wouldn't it have been done already?