• Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    1 year ago

    That’s a good point. You’d probably need to go invite-only for the Tor side of things (Beehaw style) for Tor instances to kick out the black markets/pedo networks. I don’t think Lemmy can do that (federate with all clearnet servers, whitelist for Onion services, require validation for Tor+Tor exit node user registrations).

    I think you can throw something together with a reverse proxy setup (refuse federation from .onion sites that aren’t on the whitelist, disable access to the registration API), but there are probably issues I’m missing here.

    • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      This is basically true. You need to have certain DNS configurations you cannot afford on Tor hidden services to federate, and while you still could be listening on a Tor hidden service, clearnet servers would still need to reach you to federate.

      On top of that, even if you somehow manage to do that, either youre federation trafic goes through Tor (lmao how to DDoS Tor in 1 step), or It doesn’t and all servers can see your public IP, which deafeats the purpose.