Let's start a decentralized Monero community on RetroShare (monero.town)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by tusker@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town

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Retroshare allows you to establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on Android, Linux, MacOS and Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service.

Get the software @ https://retroshare.cc/

The RetroShare ID to connect with is:

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Make sure to select "Hidden node (over tor)" when creating your node. See screenshot, otherwise your incoming connections may not work.

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[-] hfondmanager@monero.town 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

last time I checked no hardcoded seednodes nor tor hidden services avail.

So you are the only participant in the whole p2p network atm and people wont know your IP and cant "find" you. Later on with +100 nodes a DHT will do the trick.

It is possible to bootstrap a p2p network from scratch (without mining incentives)... and I hope people get interested before the next ddos. I used retro a lot yrs ago.

[-] tusker@monero.town 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

When you set up retroshare for the first time you can select "Hidden node (over Tor)" and it will automatically create a hidden service for you, no need to do it yourself

I see someone requested a connection to me but it looks like they are not configured properly

[-] hfondmanager@monero.town 3 points 5 months ago

yep. “hidden node (over tor)” lets you connect directly. I can see your user name is “gekut” and your onion address is hygzlzl2hxznxfxgzl3sghovnub5pjf555op72evqagihszkhtnz2bad.onion

It tells me you are offline atm.

RS is the most censorship resistant p2p net out there. You can create true friend2friend networks and thats end of story for the rats.

[-] tusker@monero.town 2 points 5 months ago

That is odd, the RS node is online. Can you post your RS ID so I can try to connect to you?

[-] hfondmanager@monero.town 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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will be gone tomorrow. tor hidden service.