quotingVery close to publishing - even got a slop mascot...
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Currently there exist great federated communication protocols, including SMTP, ActivityPub, and Matrix. There also exist powerful overlay networks such as Tor, I2P, cjdns, Yggdrasil and others. Even the DNS problem has been solved numerous times with Namecoin, ENS, Unstoppable Domains, PKT DNS, and others.
However, almost all federated protocols still depend on IPv4 and ICANN DNS (“the public internet”), because there’s currently no good way to federate across network boundaries. A federated network could choose to adopt another network as their official means of federation, and there do exist Fediverse nodes on Tor, but they are invisible to any node that doesn’t also run Tor, so their usage is marginal. IPv4 + ICANN DNS might not be anybody’s favorite, it’s still the protocol underpinning most federation, because it’s just something that everybody already has.
Here I propose SLUFI, a Simple, Lightweight, Unopinionated, Federation Interconnect. SLUFI is intended to embed in existing federation servers, have minimal configuration and administrative overhead, and enable bridging to any network that is capable of supporting their federation protocol - even those which don’t yet exist.
迷路的高阳 on Nostr: I2P needs more attention but I do think the future for privacy will be I2P + reliable ...
I2P needs more attention but I do think the future for privacy will be I2P + reliable well funded outproxy + clearnet. The future is already here, clearnet + Nostr and decentralized technologies already solve 99% of the problem with censorship and privacy, the mass majority will be happy as is. I2P is amazing for the remaining 1% for it's scalability and very low funding requirements but I almost guarantee there is no way the I2P mainnet itself will ever become more popular than it is now. Stormycloud did a fantastic job as a core infrastructure and I believe this is the way going forward, combining the best two worlds together and everyone will be happy.