I'm curious if there's ever been any thought of hosting this BBS over I2P. I think it would be trivial to set it up with i2pd, just creating the tunnels, generating the keys, and having it listen on the right port. I don't think anything on the server or service itself would need to change. I strongly believe both the Gemini and I2P communities would greatly benefit from such a thing. Anecdotally I've noticed I2P's user community is comparable to Gemini's-- both are mainly used by mostly decent nerds who wish the net was better than it is. If there's no interest I might setup my own Gemini BBS over I2P but it looks like a lot more work than I initially expected. Thanks!
2025-06-25 · 10 months ago · 👍 ps, clseibold
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🌆 skyjake [mod...] · 2025-06-25 at 12:01:
I have not considered this before nor am I really familiar with I2P. Personally, I am happy enough running Gemini on the public internet.
I'm not really clear on how I2P would interact with existing Gemini clients, on the client end of things. Some sort of proxying setup akin to torsocks, perhaps?
@skyjake you can simply setup the "proxy" to existing Gemini (TCP) server by using "tunnels" config:
— https://i2pd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide/tunnels/
it could be something like that:
- where bbs.dat is your key for the .i2p domain (auto-generating on the first i2pd restart)