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silverpill@silverpill@mitra.social (2026-07-21 04:52:33)
I finally got around to trying #iroh

It nicely complements FEP-ef61, because it allows you to connect to another actor by its did:key. In theory, we can completely replace the federation of HTTP servers with a federation of iroh nodes.

However, I'm not convinced that iroh is the best solution. The most obvious problem is a lack of anonymity. Newer versions of iroh support custom transports, and Tor transport is among them, though still experimental. The work on I2P transport has not started yet.

Another problem is the requirement to be online all the time. A potential solution is iroh-gossip, which I haven't tried yet, but I doubt that it works good enough for nodes that come online once per week.

A more traditional approach to FEP-ef61 with a combination for clearnet, tor and i2p gateways might be simpler and better. But iroh is an interesting project that's worth keeping an eye on.

https://codeberg.org/silverpill/minimitra/src/commit/2dd4e4f82b476f6b0a3d2610f158691ad5f46d11/src/p2p_iroh.rs