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I2P
I2P!
I2PPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!
We can build another internet here, if we want to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P
Imagine p2p torrents, but crazy encrypted, and you build an internet out of that. That's basically I2P.
Everyone is a dns/routing server for everyone else, and no one actually knows whose traffic is going where.
If you stay inside of I2P, its basically impossible to be de anonymized, unlike with TOR, where a government LE or Intel agency can just operate nodes and de anonymize people.
I read through the wiki. How do I actually use it?
I won't lie, setting it up and configuring it and actually using it is basically confusing as fuck... I've been doing this kind of shit for decades, and this is fucking complicated to me.
So... yeah. If more people could use this, maybe we could actually get something approximating a user friendly set up/usage guide or setup script type thing.
I think MentalOutlaw has a video or two explaining it, but... those would be several years old by now, may be out of date.
https://i2p.net/en/docs/
This might help.
Yes! I totally agree. I did do host a public yacy instance over I2P already (search engine)
I have been experimenting with Lemmy and stoat over I2P. I did get them working but it is still a big Hassel. Also for anyone wanting to try hosting stoat. You can't use i2pd because it doesnt implement full socks which breaks some of the http headers you need with stoat.
If you can actually figure out some more shit there, document it, that would be extremely useful information, imo.
Theoretically, at least a modified version of lemmy should be constructible within I2P land... but trying to make it accessible via clearnet would... almost certainly be basically not worth it, and arguably defeat the entire point?
It is possible to use I2P as effectively an extremely complex VPN sort of thing for clearnet, via outproxies, but you then just have to trust the outproxy, basically.
This is great for now but still uses the same hardware and infrastructure as the "regular" internet and is therefore susceptible to government control. Granted, they'd have to cut way deeper than just age verification laws.
Unless there is another zero day, like in 2014.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2014/07/29/i2p-patched-against-de-anonymizing-0-day-tails-integration-still-to-follow/
Written in … Java!
Whyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Jokes aside; very cool.
There's a version written in C++: https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd
Also a rather new rust implementation https://github.com/eepnet/emissary
Shit I didn't even know that existed, thanks!
Using I2Pd very sucessfully on my node. Can recommend!
Because its old. (And arguably battle tested).
Y'know what? I've been waiting to try it, but I shall wait no more. Thanks for the little push <3
Interesring...