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JFreegman / toxic

A Tox-based instant messaging and video chat client
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"Consider helping the Tox network by running toxic with -T, --tcp-relay" #631

Closed emdee-is closed 1 year ago

emdee-is commented 1 year ago

On the Home page you give some useful info on settings.

How about adding an advertisement:

"Consider helping the Tox network by running toxic with -T, --tcp-relay"

If each non-Tor user was a tcp_server it would help resilience in places like Iran.

JFreegman commented 1 year ago

TCP servers generally use enough bandwidth to warrant being run on a dedicated machine, as they're continually relaying high bandwidth communications such as file transfers and A/V streams. It's probably not something you'd want to run on your desktop under normal circumstances. The option is just there in case someone wants it.

emdee-is commented 1 year ago

Of course, I forgot about the AV. Still it may be worth asking users to help do something about the ease of blocking such a limited number of BS nodes. Tor put likes line "consider helping by running a relay" in their documentation and it helped a bit, and they are too varied to be able to easily block. I'm trying this out with toxic and toxygen to try running Tox in Tor,

I'll close the issue as "food for thought".