EDIT (2023-07-31T22:18:52Z): I have realized that I was not clear in my original intent for this post -- it could be interepereted to mean that I am asking whether or not you could access, for example, Lemmy through the Tor browser. This is not what I meant. What I was more alluding to was if it were possible to create a sort of "hidden fediverse" that was separate from the fediverse over the clearnet. There exitsts, already, Dark Web forums, like Dread, and I wonder if those would benefit more from being federated -- Lemmy seems like a good candidate for this.

Title changes: Added "More specifically, could one make a sort of "Hidden Fediverse"?"

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It should works using .onion domain, but as lemmy currently doesn't support changing your domain name nor having multiple domains (to make the instance reachable using an onion domain and normal domain), you can only federate with other instances that use onion address because other instances on normal network won't be able to reach your onion address to send their activity messages.

[–] Kalcifer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I wasn't clear enough in my original post. I was mostly referring to the idea of creating a sort of "Hidden Fediverse" which would be separate from the regular clearnet fediverse.

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