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[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

both social platforms decided to block all users in Mississippi from their services rather than risk hefty fines under the state’s oppressive age verification mandate
Bluesky was developed as a reference implementation of the AT Protocol, an open communication protocol for distributed social networks.[13]

But I thought Bsky folks said it was decentralized. Where’s atproto.ms.gov?

/s

🤢lemmy.world/c/Technology is suç a terrible 🧵

[-] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

Into the bunker!

shuts a big vault door with "TOR" written on it

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

The problem is if this gets adopted on a large enough scale not even Tor will save us, all the exit nodes will be subject to censorship. Tor only works because there are some countries which have totally free and open internet. Unless you're talking about moving completely to the darknet.

[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 4 points 11 months ago

Unless you're talking about moving completely to the darknet.

I really wish i2p would take off and people would seriously consider hosting stuff there.

Like why is Lemmy and most federated social media not on the dark web? It would make so much more sense and be much more resilient to censorship.

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Because with Lemmy's architecture darknet sites could not federate with clearnet sites as the end user's browser fetches content directly from the federated instances.

[-] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Because with Lemmy’s architecture darknet sites could not federate with clearnet sites as the end user’s browser fetches content directly from the federated instances.

Ehhh, that just seems like something someone hasn't fixed yet but easily could if built for that purpose. No one's taken a hammer to that nail yet.

A tunnel could exist on each server that relays to TOR and back to the instance, allowing it to federate with .onion instances under an alias or something. TOR is extremely flexible with tunneling and being really specific with what you let in and from where. I could see how it could be tailored to the purpose.

[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 11 months ago

Right, but why not build it from the ground up to support the dark web?

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

I never said you couldn't, just that it doesn't work that way now

[-] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

Unless you’re talking about moving completely to the darknet.

There are XMPP servers hosted on .onion.

I see no reason why a lemmy instance, or more, couldn't also be hosted there.

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

With XMPP all messages are relayed through your server of choice

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