Can anyone ELI5 how this works? Does the Fediverse get a new fork in Tor-space? Or will Onion only users still be follow-able by those of us in the DNS driven fediverse?
Also is each Onion instance a Tor hidden service with all the implied security challenges that brings?
Reading through the toots, it looks like HTTPS requests are being proxied into Tor and responses are being proxied out. The Pleroma author says they’ll have a blog post about this shortly.
There’s also this script which can auto-setup a TOR Pleroma instances: https://gist.github.com/majestrate/d6559d885910a5635943f66093723dba
Can anyone ELI5 how this works? Does the Fediverse get a new fork in Tor-space? Or will Onion only users still be follow-able by those of us in the DNS driven fediverse?
Also is each Onion instance a Tor hidden service with all the implied security challenges that brings?
Reading through the toots, it looks like HTTPS requests are being proxied into Tor and responses are being proxied out. The Pleroma author says they’ll have a blog post about this shortly.
https://blog.freedombone.net/federating-the-onions
Ah interesting! So it’s definitely not an island. I’ll look forward to that post!
I admire the Pleroma folks, that project’s existence is a sound refutation of folks dismissal of Mastodon just because it’s a Rails project.
(Which, really, I mean Rails has its problems, and security issues are among them, but doesn’t every other web framework in existence?)