@ryo It's still a problem. There are many different darknets out there. Some instances will only support Tor. Others will only support I2P. Some will support both. It's going to be a huge mess.
@charliebrownau @ryo I know it had military origin. I do believe that I2P is superior and we should be using that instead, but people avoid it because the main implementation is written in Java, despite the fact that native implementations exist.
@charliebrownau @ryo They're right here. One is written in C++. The other is written in Go.
@xianc78 @ryo I think multi-transport federation can be implemented, at least in Fediverse, without breaking backwards compatibility.
If there's a way to identify instances by public key (in addition to domain), then activities and objects can also have unique IDs that don't depend on clearnet infra. It's not difficult to do
But to be fair, did we even rely on normies to be on the clearnet for it to function back in the 1990's?