In the light of current political trends and challenges to freedom of speech of common citizens, I would like to present a low-cost, light-weight, scalable, anonymous, secure social network which combines classic (IRC) and modern (Tor) network technologies based on a cross-platform Docker framework.

For example, with this approach a small server with 2GB of memory is estimated to be able to handle about 15,000 simultaneously active users, which means that such a server can be run on very limited hardware, eg a smartphone, mini-computer (raspberry pi) or similar to minimize costs for civil political movements, esp in the Global South.

The framework is generic and can be also applied to other network protocols, eg XMPP.

Reference:
Igl, W. (2025). AEREEnet: Creating a low-cost, light-weight, scalable, anonymous, secure social network – A Short Tutorial. biosphere.wilmarigl.de/en/?p=4…

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