Part 1: Response. (Part 2: Request for Comments. Part 3: Tags of Interest.)

For those whom reside behind restrictive firewalls or whose Internet Provider eavesdrops and manipulates content, every installation of @i2p or @Tor becomes a secured Internet connection.

I implore readers to visit https://geti2p.net/download 📄 and to install #i2p 🗃️ on a device—as many as feasible‼ Then install the Blizzard extension ❄️ mentioned by @i2p.

I2P is a fabulous addition to efforts of the Tor Network, but not by replacing it: #i2p complements #tor (see @i2p and @torproject). Tor currently reigns superior with TCP, which is in use at large by that “http(s)://“ scheme at the beginning of URLs; I2P supports TCP and UDP, which offers a broader range of applications—reliable downloads over a few kilobytes, video streaming, IRC and FTP, to name a few.

[N.B. This has been a major oversimplification; forgive me.]

As your devices enable I2P, both #I2P and #Tor are made accessible to at-risk persons internationally and are made more resilient to attack as we grow.

Help to keep the Internet open when you install #i2p on your devices. Go to https://geti2p.net/download now!

And continue below for even more juicy bits. ;)

Part 2: Request for Comments.

A note to those more knowledgeable than I am on technical topics:

• Are there any #mastodon or #pleroma instances on #i2p ?
• I2P allows many domains to an individual; can this be leveraged to somehow bridge the “user” and “server” parts of a handle? I could see a Public Key Infrastructure #PKI leveraging this to create a Peer-to-Peer #P2P Web-of-Trust #WoT on a user-instance basis. (I’m a noob, so I may not understand the scope of the issue thoroughly.) A user-instance (U.-I.) could “vouch for” other U.-I.s so that others might differently (how?) engage with content.
• In regard to the previous point: could this trust become delegated with a fall-off? (Keep in mind that Kevin Bacon is never far away.)

Part 3: Tags of Interest.

If you know of projects which take advantage of #i2p and/or 1 or more of the below, please let me know!

• #yggdrasil (an #IPv6
• #yacy (a #p2p search engine on the #java virtual machine #jvm )
• #freenet (a #p2p publishing platform at https://freenetproject.org/)
• #ipfs (a distributed datastore via an overlay network?)
• #IOTA #MIOTA the IOTA project is a novel (not-a) #cryptocurrency which enables #OutOfBand #IoT communications and #PersonalDataOwnership at #LowPower, some great WIPs (including an implementation of a #zkSNARK protocol and #SmartContracts), all with 0 “coins” needed to send a secured data-bearing message!)