You can connect to most instances over Tor, but hosting a server over a Tor hidden service would cause problems as it can’t be connected to by stock servers. (If you convince others to run other Tor hidden service instances, they could probably federate with each other)
Do ActivityPub services work over "The Dark Web"/i2p/Tor?
Submitted 1 year ago by Kalcifer@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
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nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Kalcifer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can connect to most instances over Tor
I was not enough in my original post. I was generally referring to your second point about hosting a sort of “Hidden Fediverse”.
SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.net 1 year ago
Depends on the specific instance. Some services run where they are natively accessible through tor, but most don’t.
Just remember that ActivityPub is a sharing protocol, and individual admins are fully capable of seeing everything. There is no end to end encryption, everything is stored in plain text.
Kalcifer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Some services run where they are natively accessible through tor, but most don’t.
This was mostly what I was referring to. Does there already exist a sort of “hidden fediverse”? As in a fediverse that is only accessible over Tor/i2p?
fubo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you can authenticate to that web endpoint, you can do RESTful things with it.
cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business 1 year ago
ActivityPub isn’t anything more than JSON over HTTP(s); there’s no reason at all that you couldn’t simply tunnel all the traffic using hidden services over Tor using nothing more than the Tor daemon to create a hidden service and the proxy functionality to route all outbound HTTP traffic over Tor.