Today I spent a long time restoring the Tor mirror of this site. In the process I generated a new Tor v3 onion address, and updated the link in the site footer.

extuakx3ogcvbugoldtbhtv2lgrwk6telisieb7ielpkllox2epbe3qd.onion

Invisible internet

I also set up an i2p mirror, which you can access from the following address.

glsjdcavq4byq2q4mjuz2jvlubz33jidz3aqdxpqfqpmzrgfxueq.b32.i2p

I don’t have an i2p hostname, and can’t properly test that address. If you’re able to connect, let me know!

It’s extremely difficult, and potentially dangerous, to set up (and test) these kinds of services while sitting behind a nation-state firewall.

So, at the moment this site is served over Tor, i2p, and of course, the World Wide Web.

Defunct services

Gemini

I’ve deleted the copy of this site on the gemini network, for much the same reasons as Drew Devault It’s not so much a case of technical burden as much as a feeling that dual-publishing HTML and gemtext doesn’t do justice to either, and it’s too much effort to write custom posts just for gemini.

While the use-case for gemini hasn’t gone away, the wave of excitement around the protocol died down. I’ll consider gemini for text-based websites in future, but for now it seems easier to just maintain a minimalist, well-performing blog served over HTTP.

IPFS

I’ve also deleted the IPFS mirror, but this is something I would like to have another go at again in future, when the IPFS stack is more mature.