Sharp312
Nope, never have. It surprises me how many people my age use it though. Groups might technically be viable but Facebook wasn’t designed to be used like reddit, so you could use it but I doubt there would be many interesting communities to browse.
Thought this was a legit ad, you scared me for a minute lmao
I knew about Lemmy before what happened with reddit, but didn’t use it until then. So I know about the little quirks like that, but if people are gonna stay this really needs to be addressed. To the average user they don’t understand why they’ve been logged out and just think Lemmy is buggy which is sad.
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Nope I only used the official app too, funny that reddits API changes made me aware of and try out infinity. It’s beautiful, had no bugs compared to the official one (I’m surprised you had no issues, videos would fail to work maybe 1-2 times out of 10 for a while, then work fine for hours). If they go through with the changes I’m probably not going to reinstall the official app.
I2P is completely decentralized, while tor still has some centralization. When you start connecting to i2p your i2p router looks for the IP of a floodfill router, floodfill routers are other routers, just like yours, except they also have the responsibility of sharing other i2p routers they are aware of. Since any router can be a floodfill the network is harder to take down. Obviously i2p has to get the first floodfills ip somehow, and to do that i believe it does the exact same thing as tor, connect to a regular i2p run server and pickup the ips of some floodfills, however unlike tor, once your router becomes aware of other routers it becomes completely decentralized and P2P.
Meanwhile, tor has a centralized list of all the (public, aka not bridges) nodes that your browser uses to make the tunnel.
When you connect to an eepsite (I2Ps version of onionsite) your traffic will leave through an “outgoing tunnel” which consists of 3 (default, this is customizable) other i2p routers and then is passed onto the webservers “incoming tunnel”. Every router has a set of incoming and outgoing tunnels which are used for communication, unlike tor where you have one tunnel that is established with the website and is used for both sending and receiving. When the website receives the traffic, it will respond on one of its “outgoing tunnels”, which consists of a different set of random i2p routers and will send that traffic to one of your “incoming tunnels”.
Because of this, a round trip for your connection consists of 12 nodes total making it far less possible for any participant to be identified, instead of tors 6 (6 for onionsites, 3 for clearweb)
This is the best graphic i can find to explain it since I feel ive not done I2P justice. This video does a much better job at explaining i2p and goes super in-depth.
Someone here please correct me if im wrong, but I dont think its possible yet. I just found this github issue discussing adding this feature
Seems like its not yet, theres a github issue discussing adding the feature
