@spiderrobotpig what if
you started a tor mastodon instance
because you can start hidden services without portforwarding
and if you tell every server you're at one of those onion bridges from web to tor, you can get it working like that
(please note that if you do this, im pretty sure it will cause random sysadmins to have nightmares about this specific setup just because of it existing. this is eldritch networking abuse, basically)
@spiderrobotpig basically what this implies is
oh god im going to have to draw a diagram and it's going to probably have to appreciably convey the pure horror of how this works
@spiderrobotpig look i wouldnt use this for anything that doesnt include a drawing of cthulhu on the front page
@spiderrobotpig okay first this is a good diagram of how hidden services work
basically you're just relaying through a node:
https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en
@spiderrobotpig i just typed out an explanation and realized that like
god i don't think this would work???? like i don't know???
this is like using quicklime to heat a pool: sure it might work but like there's so many things wrong here
