Posted by idk in I2P

I'm interested in becoming a mod here if the idea is to recruit the mods from Reddit as well :)

Also what's the deal under-the-hood here, so to speak? Are we talking to other sites ActivityPub style or anything extra fancy like that?

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abralelie wrote (edited )

The man, the myth, the legend. Nice to see you here!

A question about I2P moving to git: is it finally done? Is it not possible to pull the I2P router from https://i2pgit.org/ over I2P?

P.S what's the deal with "/u/alreadyburnt"? Has your real identity been leaked or something?

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idk OP wrote

Funny you should ask, i2p.i2p migrated to git literally 17 minutes ago! I2P source code is here now: http://git.idk.i2p/i2p-hackers/i2p.i2p

re: alreadyburnt I actually didn't intend to keep the account. It was intended to signal "Do not reply to these messages, because this account is already burnt." That said, somebody could probably find me if they really tried, but I'm not like a radical of any stripe or a market seller or anything like that, most of what I do is pretty uncontroversial, I just genuinely believe that P2P and Privacy describe characteristics that ought to be normative of the bulk of normal people's online activity, and that now is the apt time to participate in how those concepts affect humanity's future.

Re: my anonymity, some of my colleagues know my first name, and the really-high profile adversaries surely know who I am, I have been on camera talking about I2P plenty of times, I've had to book plane tickets, I pay my taxes. I lock down tight and try not to piss people off too much.

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abralelie wrote

Funny you should ask, i2p.i2p migrated to git literally 17 minutes ago!

Awesome! I hope that'll bring new contributors.

Thanks for your work on I2P ♥ Does it feel like the time for I2P is starting to come?

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idk OP wrote

The time for I2P comes when people bring it, I think. If we think of I2P as like the internet, then what brings about it's time is applications that popularize it. I'm not sure what that application or group of applications will be, but a better way to configure and launch browsers on multiple platforms might be part of it, and obviating the installation of the JVM/OpenJDK for Windows users is a part of it too.

Mixing social elements and peer-to-peer file sharing might be another, like a f2f microblog/messenger/torrent tracker for sharing files privately. Sharing a single b32 for every peer would have to go though, I would use Magic Wormhole to generate a short phrase which contains a link to the real b32 gateway to their node. Or somebody who has more time/likes node better than me could port WebTorrent, that would bring us all the really awesome stuff that people build on top of WebTorrent all of which is incredibly cool and useful. I really want to see more games, even simple ones. Chess, checkers, backgammon, either using traditional chess servers or something modified to be peer-to-peer. Freeciv long-turn games. Up to a point, even real-time games are possible with short, multipath tunnels. Games are neat because they occupy a social context which is not widely considered a part of the anonymous internet, even though major services have emerged and been successful in marketplaces largely because of things that happen because gaming is not tenably anonymous.

What I think these all share is a tendency to be "Fun," the ability to be "Easy," and for that to produce a "Network Effect." People don't join networks to talk to no one. Sometimes they join networks to talk to themselves, but mostly they want to do things with other people. Finding new ways to facilitate people doing new things with other people is what I think grows I2P.

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