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If there were a Lemmy.i2p instance, would you use it?

2026-04-15 19:54 UTC

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.

Replies (10)

  • @Bazell@lemmy.zip 2026-04-15 19:57

    So, will it be a separate social network or a part of the Fediverse that will be able to communicate with the others?

    Open ##1168552

  • @buckykat@hexbear.net 2026-04-15 20:31

    Everything will be allowed except for moderation regarding serious topics and spam. So you’re making a Nazi bar

    Open ##1169088

  • @linuxguy@piefed.ca 2026-04-15 20:42

    How would it federate? Both in and out.

    Open ##1169362

  • @treadful@lemmy.zip 2026-04-15 20:54

    Are people actually using I2P?

    Open ##1169863

  • @solrize@lemmy.ml 2026-04-15 23:31

    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: wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan

    Open ##1174579

  • @monovergent@lemmy.ml 2026-04-16 01:51

    I would be too lazy to, unless I eventually encounter my ‘gateway drug’ to i2p.

    Open ##1177354

  • @Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-16 01:02

    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

    Open ##1184638

  • My concern would be federation. I don’t think the fediverse is set up so you can run the same service on the clearnet and dark net.

    Open ##1191716

  • @AstroLightz@lemmy.world 2026-04-16 15:44

    Probably not. I2P is a pain to set up, for little benefit other than a decentralized network. The latency is not worth it currently. When it becomes click and install, and the latency is improved, then maybe.

    Open ##1198487

  • @bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 2026-04-15 21:57

    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.

    Open ##1338399