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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I would be too lazy to, unless I eventually encounter my ‘gateway drug’ to i2p.
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
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
How would it federate? Both in and out.
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.
Are people actually using I2P?
So, will it be a separate social network or a part of the Fediverse that will be able to communicate with the others?
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
