Lemmy.World

deploying the fediverse instance-instance communication(or just to peer) on top of an overlay-network like yggdrasil, using their addresses as domain names, may be a quick fix without having to change the paradigm (while remaining compatible with the normal way)

so that the accounts are associated with that address(instead of a domain)
plus, once inside such a system, there would never be a need for any other migration

I've been accessing my servers over Yggdrasil for the last few years and I never see it mentioned in self hosting communities, so here you go !

Yggdrasil works over IPv6 and brings encryption at the network interface level (similarly to a VPN). The cool thing is that your IP address is derived from your private key, so when you try to connect to a specific IP, your packets are encrypted so that ONLY the destination server can decrypt it (thus preventing MITM attacks). And as everything is encrypted at the NIC level, you can safely use plain text protocols ;)

How cool is that ?