@dumpsterqueer yup.
A plug in box at home would be nice but would never work out of the box or remotely easily without server infrastructure, otherwise port forwarding etc would be needed and that's a pain in the ass / not even possible on some routers
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@c24h29clo4 @dumpsterqueer@ondergrond.org I've been thinking of setting up (public) wireguard reversy proxies for ages now. With all the actual hosting happening at home, you could support a bunch of instances on a single node.
As for bandwidth requirements, pixie.town basically does this, on a home vdsl 50/20 line together with a matrix server (which does over-strain it at times)
@c24h29clo4 @dumpsterqueer@ondergrond.org I think under various legislations this would count as a transit provider of sorts, as you're just passing around existing traffic you have less responsibility.
the other options would be having to port forward + dynamic dns (+ exposing someone's home ip and thus (general) location), or getting everyone to federate over tor hidden services
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@f0x @dumpsterqueer it might be where you are, but here things like "common sense" and "math don't matter too much to the government or police (there's persistent efforts to ban encryption or force mathematically impossible backdoors into it) so I put no faith in any protection even if we have any
@f0x @dumpsterqueer I can see this imposing a lot of risks on whomever is running the proxies for the content on them.
Which is not something I'd be personally comfortable with, and not something I'd ask anyone else to do ubless their country was very different to mine lol