Lokinet on Cloudron

[LoudLemur]

Lokinet is like a more secure, low-latency alternative to TOR.

https://lokinet.org/

Lokinet, developed by the Oxen team, will soon be supported on the secure messaging application, Session:

https://getsession.org

You can get in touch with the Lokinet developers using Session, try KeeJef here:

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[timconsidine]

@loudlemur : how would that work in terms of a Cloudron app ? Something like a VPN, we connect e.g. a browser to the instance, which then does the connection onwards ?

Sorry for the dumb question.

[LoudLemur]

@timconsidine
Hey, thanks for asking!

Yes, running Lokinet is a bit like running a VPN. (You actually might have trouble connecting to Lokinet if you are using a VPN at the same time, so it is worth testing.)

If you run lokinet on your home computer and then go online, it is a bit like you are using TOR to go on the internet and visit webpages.

You can run applications on Lokinet too.

Lokinet is easy enough to setup on a machine at home, but people might want to deploy it on a rented VPS so Cloudron might be able to help there.

At the moment, there is one main exit node for Lokinet, run by the developers.

https://oxen.io/session-lokinet
https://github.com/oxen-io

If people are curious, I think the thing to do is join the community using Session (which is a great alternative to Telegram, for example) and chat with the developers and community there, who will be able to offer much better answers than I could.

[timconsidine]

@loudlemur that's good, thank you