Recommend .onion IRC as default, add I2P options

[xanoni]

This is the next iteration of #1038

• Make .onion IRC servers the default choice across networks
• Add Ilita (.onion): http://ilitafrzzgxymv6umx2ux7kbz3imyeko6cnqkvy4nisjjj4qpqkrptid.onion
• Add Ilita I2P alternative (see link above)
• Add Agora I2P alternative: https://anarplex.net/agorairc/connect/
• Clean up server list overall

(Does not include Irc2P I2P-only IRC server. Does not include OFTC.)

[xanoni]

tor is the recommended default.

That's what I put in the PR, right? sorry if I screwed up

Oh are you saying that JoinMarket already uses .onion as the default? If yes, then I guess I was too lazy to properly migrate my config and missed the change.

EDIT: But wait, my PR is against master, and master doesn't use .onion as the default. I'm very confused.

[xanoni]

sorry for confusion! yes I agree tor is the recommended default. :)

Yes! I saw one of @chris-belcher's posts here a few days ago where he said that too ... seems the clearnet default is legacy and should go away

[nixbitcoin]

On the Agora website they say that they are fixing the I2P destination (I2P (disabled currently, will be fixed)).

Stable i2p address should be forthcoming. Funded in IRC.

[kristapsk]

Removing clearnet and defaulting to Tor will not be problem if #1061 is merged.

@xanoni Maybe it's best to split off adding Ilita as a separate PR from introducing I2P, which is more controversial, as I don't see any disagreements about adding new onion supporting IRC network. And adding with clearnet + Tor configs as with existing IRC networks. Then changing to Tor by default for all of them could go as a separate commit later.

[xanoni]

@kristapsk

So you are suggesting this?

1. PR that adds Ilita .onion (I didn't see clearnet, so I guess it would be disabled by default)
2. PR that removes all the clearnet servers and enables Ilita by default
3. PR that adds I2P (Agora, Ilita, Irc2P) — all optional

[kristapsk]

@xanoni Yes, something like that. Let's just start with (1), which should be the less controversial one.

[xanoni]

@kristapsk that would be here: #1065

[AdamISZ]

@kristapsk given your last comment, should this PR be closed then ( (1) is already done, so I believe we would be waiting on (2) and (3), then, unless they're already here and I missed them)?

[kristapsk]

It looks there is no consensus in adding I2P and non-onion IRC servers, so this, #1038 and #920 could be closed. They also are less important if we both add c-lightning transport (#1000) and integrate Tor (#1061).

[xanoni]

Thank you for driving this. I'm MIA and can't help here right now.

[AdamISZ]

Closing this based on the merging of #1182 and #1061 meaning we now have Tor as the default for IRC connections (and non-IRC connections, also Tor).

If there's a plan to include I2P support perhaps it could be in a new PR? (I don't know if that's possible, but in any case, I think if there were a desire to add some kind of I2P support it could be perhaps added as a variant of the new onion-based quasi-p2p messaging with directory servers, instead of IRC servers).