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A sad Alfis moment — decided to try out alfis for dns. installed via cargo. ran it for a combined 30h or so. key finally mined. click 'save key'. a 'tiny file dialogs' opens, telling me it's missing software to give me a proper save dialog. "press enter to continue". window unresponsive. crashes. no key saved. dns is overrated anyway.
💬 14 comments · 1 like · Apr 19 · 3 weeks ago
Fun fact — Yggdrasil internals are not well documented. Which is why, when I needed two programs to communicate over Yggdrasil through their embedded Yggdrasil nodes, I spent well over a week coding up a mess around `yggquic`, when I actually needed an UDP-like message transport. Turns out that if you specifically need fire-and-forget messages without a delivery guarantee, you don't need `go-quic`, `yggquic`, or any of that junk. (Which has issues with context canceling, never mind introducing…
💬 3 likes · Apr 15 · 3 weeks ago
tor like system for yggdrasil it is of course rudimentary. may have bugs. just a very rough test first draft. but it works! it is made by my student. we tested it today. right now it has a hardcoded bootstrap node. which is on his machine. you can deploy a bootstrap node on your computer, then there should be some other nodes that connect to your bootstrap node and tell it if they are entry(guard), middle or exit nodes. then the client on other machine connects to bootstrap, gets a list of…
💬 9 comments · 4 likes · Apr 13 · 3 weeks ago
Lol, I published separated Agate server for our community forums (weekly) dump: [http link] Some article: [gemini link] Index is yet here (agate can't resolve something else than index.gmi) [gemini link] How do I read Markdown? - In Yoda, lol.
💬 View post · Apr 02 · 5 weeks ago
— Yggdrasil (AAAA gemini://ps.ygg)
Testing default certificate fallback for Agate (SNI-less IP as the host, useful in the DNS-less Yggdrasil context) [https link]
💬 3 comments · Mar 31 · 5 weeks ago
Hanging an Antenna on Yggdrasil — So I did make that Yggdrasil-only Antenna clone. It's very primitive for the moment, but should work for any capsule that exposes a gemfeed: [gemini link] gjallarhorn.ygg (ALFIS) [gemini link] gjallarhorn.ygg.at (Clearnet DNS) [gemini link] amaiaswl5p4zyaaaaaaaaadxo4.meship (meshnamed) [gemini link] amaiaswl5p4zyaaaaaaaaadxo4.meshname (meshnamed) [gemini link] Bare Yggdrasil IP. I'll work on other formats when I get more spare time. :) Please play with it and...
💬 7 comments · 3 likes · Mar 29 · 6 weeks ago
another dns scheme for yggdrasil and just clearnet ipv6 too. — so it all started with [https link] this prosody plugin. [https link] see its readme. it infers the domain from the ipv6. and that domain also can be converted back to ipv6. the plugin was written for prosody, and it is fun, i setup an xmpp server on my pinephone, i have an account on it, and i am even able to federate with other xmpp servers that have enabled the same plugin. folks from yggdrasil muc even managed to setup...
💬 6 comments · 1 like · Mar 29 · 6 weeks ago
Yggdrasil gamers now can subscribe to new HalfLife (Xash3D/FWGS) servers joined the network and receive online updates via RSS! [http link]
HLState: Half-Life stats and subscription feature via RSS (screenshot)
💬 2 comments · 1 like · Mar 27 · 6 weeks ago
Gemini search engines and Yggdrasil — So I had a random thought: Do any search engines exist that actually will crawl an Yggdrasil capsule? That is, there's no doubt it's possible if they're on the network themselves, but none of the big ones I know seem to be, or say they are.
💬 16 comments · 2 likes · Mar 26 · 6 weeks ago
mod_s2s_v6mesh — this is a very interesting module for prosody. since it is much easier to use xmpp server that has a domain name, but we have problems with domain names because it is not clear which dns to use: clearnet? alfis? others? this solves the problem without dns at all. it generates encoded hostnames, that support subdomains, out of your yggdrasil ipv6 address. and other servers that have this module, can decode and "resolve" your ip. more information by the link.
💬 3 comments · 3 likes · Mar 19 · 7 weeks ago
Just for info, my capsule is available for Yggdrasil users: [gemini link] Agate can't handle IPv6 hostnames yet, use /etc/hosts or install Alfis DNS I2P version is also available (see my profile page)
💬 9 comments · Mar 14 · 8 weeks ago
A plan with how I'll make my yggdrasil server using an older laptop and cooling fan + Etc — I've been thinking of running a yggdrasil thing on my older ThinkPad Tablet and using that as a server, alongside a cooling fan, but now I'm wondering if I should just use a mini pc, even though they cost 300+ dollars. A little more context, my thinkpad tablet runs Windows 7 32bit.
💬 5 comments · 1 like · Mar 14 · 8 weeks ago
Yet another Yggdrasil router implementation in Rust (by Mimir and Alfis DNS developer) [https link] Yggdrasil Network переписан на Rust за 3,5 дня.
💬 2 likes · Feb 11 · 3 months ago
barev - a chat protocol and implementation for yggdrasil network — so some time ago i tried and managed to use bonjour (xep-0174) over yggdrasil network. however it had lots of limitations. so i decided to go by other way. i have forked pidgin bonjour plugin and turned it in to barev plugin. now statuses, avatars, file transfers, and lots of features are supported. i am planning also to make a crossplatform desktop ui program, as well as android application.
💬 1 comment · 1 like · 2025-12-12 · 5 months ago
What's a good way to get started with Yggdrasil? I use a VPN and DDNS service to access my home network remotely. Is there a guide or resource on using Yggdrasil to replace these?
💬 8 comments · 2025-12-08 · 5 months ago
network map
💬 3 comments · 2 likes · 2025-11-28 · 5 months ago
What is the purpose of Yggdrasil? — Could someone explain the purpose of this network? There is surprisingly little out there -- nothing on wikipedia, and the github site is strangely obtuse. Is this just a networking protocol? encrypted transport? What am I supposed to do with it and why would I?
💬 35 comments · 1 like · 2025-11-26 · 5 months ago
i think it would be great if we all, who selfhosts, would also host on yggdrasil. and i think we need to help our friends to host on yggdrasil. and help other people to have yggdrasil to be able to access whatever we host on yggdrasil.
💬 4 comments · 3 likes · 2025-11-26 · 5 months ago
yggdrasil-bonjour bridge — i wanted to chat via bonjour (without being tied to this or that server) by using yggdrasil. this is kinda a solution for me right now. details in the repository readme. i wanted to chat via a messenger that supports open standard for serverless messaging: XEP-0174. so i started by writing my own yggdrasil messenger that would use the above mentioned xmpp extension but also use my own implementation of mdns that would tell the messenger about the yggdrasil...
💬 1 comment · 1 like · 2025-11-17 · 6 months ago
I would like to announce βtracker - a BitTorrent aggregator for the Yggdrasil network. It's written in Rust and uses the following trackers to crawl the results: [preformatted] Live: [gemini link] [gemini link] Source: [https link] Repository [https link] Screenshots
💬 1 comment · 1 like · 2025-09-09 · 8 months ago
A new version of Mimir has been released, currently available only for Android, so I can't test it :) True P2P messenger on top of Yggdrasil Network [https link]
💬 3 comments · 1 like · 2025-09-03 · 8 months ago
Launched experimental Half-Life 1 / Xash3D game server for the Yggdrasil network: [preformatted] and yet another one: [preformatted] [gemini link] How to setup (UK)
💬 View post · 2025-08-14 · 9 months ago
YGGtracker is now βtracker — it's a BitTorrent aggregator based on the aquatic-crawler API and Rocket web-framework, written in Rust to join the feed, simply add one of the following trackers to your client: [preformatted] [https link] Source (MIT) Live: [http link] [http link] Soon for the Geminispace!
💬 View post · 2025-08-06 · 9 months ago
Launched my personal FTP server, with about of 150Gb media files to download. It's accessible in anonymous mode over the default port 21: Yggdrasil ftp://[302:3817:7b11:248c::fdb] Mycelium ftp://[42b:152a:b542:bc16::fdb] It was my old dream because I'm starting to hate the BitTorrent protocol with its HTTP leaks. Gemini, Nex, IRC, and FTP represent the real Internet. p.s. I was supposed to create a shared subspace Mesh because I don't know where to announce it: ygg or myc.
💬 3 comments · 3 likes · 2025-07-18 · 10 months ago
Just launched an experimental RSS feed for the Yggdrasil peers BitTorrent tracker, based on the Aquatic + aquatic-crawler toolkit. The feed is here: [http link] [http link] Alfis DNS [gemini link] NewsFlash demo Aggregation feed for the Mycelium network will be available a bit later, as I want to test the crawler on the more popular tracker first. To join the aggregation results, simply add this tracker to BitTorrent client: udp://[302:68d0:f0d5:b88d::fdb]:6969
💬 View post · 2025-07-09 · 10 months ago
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