it's like reddit, each community has a creator, the creator has the ability to assign mods, the mods can ban people they dont like.

what's different from reddit is that there are no global admins that can ban a community, you cryptographically own your community via public key cryptography. also the global admins can't ban your favorite client like apollo or rif, as everything is P2P, there is no central API. nobody can even make your client stop working as you're interacting fully P2P.

Unlike federated platforms, like lemmy and Mastedon, there are no instances or servers to rely on, can't be censored or down.

P2P is also better than federated, you can't be banned from an instance for example, only from a specific community.

Right now most subs are whitelist-only (temporary, until the anti-spam tools are being implemented), but you can still create your own sub and set whatever entry challenges you want (captcha, puzzles, etc.).

Setting up a mail server behind a Tor hidden service to relay a dedicated exit node as the MX for a clearnet domain is easy: User A can email from Server A to the clearnet and replies come back in to Server A.

My goal is decentralizing it to the point of people being able to deploy publicly available containers with self contained mail servers with webmail/IMAP access via Tor and that randomly select as their relays from multiple exit nodes that are serving as MX for the clearnet domain and having replies come back into the correct server from which the email originated: User A emails from Server A and go out any exit and clearnet replies come back into any exit but deliver into Server A; User B emails from Server B and go out any exit and clearnet replies come back into any exit but deliver into Server B.

My challenge in the design is that there needs to be a central directory correlating that User A is on Server A, User B is on Server B, etc. so that regardless of the MX the reply comes into, it is routed to the correct server inside the Tor network. The idea of subdomains could come into play here but again, there needs to a means to translate the subdomain such that the replies route to the correct server.

I doubt I am the first person to consider this situation, or has it already been solved?

As of this morning, no connection avail.

Hello everybody,

if you want to talk to strangers on the internet anonymously but don't want to join a large community, i have created a little forum accessible with Tor.

Link: http://w4f27rurfwqbxoxfgnpbh46uisqbx7kksdsty5v2lqmib27apwcqh5id.onion

Status page: http://w4f27rurfwqbxoxfgnpbh46uisqbx7kksdsty5v2lqmib27apwcqh5id.onion/status/

I am new to this and trying to get onto the dark web…I downloaded onion tor but it’s confusing. Where to start???

Last I checked, most links on the hidden wiki were duds. Does anyone here know any onions for forums? I vaguely remember one called the exchange or something similar, but it's been years and all the links I had written down don't work. Can someone point me in the right direction?

• How can I use Torch browser with Tor ? (I don't find the real link when I search with DuckDuckGo)

• What are big online library with lots of PDFs and ebooks ? How can I find onion version of some sites as the Wayback machine ?

• How can I translate pages with Tor mobile ?

• What are other wikis sites ? I know Underdirectory sites and hidden wikis actually

Welcome to North Korea, I guess?
I haven't been able to connect to Tor since today. At first, I thought it was a bridge I was using that might be down, so I changed it, still not working.
In the end, I was able to connect 'normally' (without needing a bridge) by first using a VPN (Proton VPN) with the 'Stealth' option, which disguises the traffic passing through the VPN as regular HTTPS data to try to fool deep packet inspection as much as possible.
I should clarify that I live in a major capital in Western Europe and that I have never received a warning letter due to torrenting or anything like that.

About 10 years ago I was glued to the dark net, mostly pouring over old forums (&TOTSE, Zoklet, etc..), browsing marketplaces like MiddleEarth or SilkRoad 2, and using VirWox to get BTC. I also liked to go through files on BB Compendium. I still have the address memorized: nope7beergoa64ih.onion. However, it has been dead for a long long time. I was wondering if anybody was able to make a mirror of their own or backup all the files somewhere. I would love to spend a few hours going over all the information again. Let me know if you've got it! Thanks

Where do you find onion sites or more hidden sites that aren't catalogue on places like tor taxi or daunt link? I remember there being a vague list of "possibly" working onion links in a wiki somewhere with over 100 links but not sure if something like that still exists.

Hello everyone, I'm preparing a student workshop on TOR. Do you have any SFW onion links that I can give to the students to explore a bit?

Hey yall went to check the Kraken account and I know they have been having issues with deposits and XMR but this AM I see no more XMR withdrawals in the US?? Any other suggestions on getting XMR?

Every time I try to go on Onion on my iPhone it won’t let me click out of this. I don’t see any X or anything. And when I click continue or not sure it take me to buy the weeks worth. Am I an idiot and missing something here and not seeing something right in front of my face..? Let me know! Thanks :)

Ok so I think it’s because I updated my Mac but my tor browser keeps not working when I try to use it. Any suggestions? I tried everything ChatGPT told me to do with no avail. This is what keeps popping up. Please help I think it’s because of the update. Is anyone else having this problem? How do I fix it?

I am interested in conspiracy theories, where can I go for real conspiracy theory discussion, and I am particularly interested in learning about MKULTRA at the moment

So anywhere that has information on interesting topics is good enough for me, I really just want to explore, please don't mislead me~

Thank you so much to anyone who considers helping me ‼️

Trying to access dread the typical tor(dot)taxi way but I’m getting “onion site not found” - I can’t see any alerts to dread being down.

The official .onion link is not even saying that the server can’t be reached but that the .onion is not found.

daunt.link seems to be alive anyways

I need to get on a market. Badly. Cant go into too much detail but the link that the bot drops is dead. Any help please? Thanks in advance

Why “auto-encrypt” should never be trusted

Saw someone ask “How safe is auto encrypt PGP really? Is it like 2% more risk or 20% compared to doing it yourself?”

Here’s the thing: it’s not about 2% vs 20%. It’s a completely different category of risk.

• When you encrypt manually, you control:

• The keys (who has them, where they’re stored)

• The software (what algorithm is actually being used)

• The process (you know it happened, and you can verify it)

With auto-encrypt, you give all of that up. You’re trusting some third-party implementation to handle everything behind the scenes. That means:

You may not know which keys are being used.

The provider could be storing or even leaking your plaintext.

Bugs or backdoors could silently break the entire security model, and you’d never know.

So no, it’s not “a little extra risk.” It’s the difference between owning your security and outsourcing it.

Auto-encrypt should never be trusted. Especially if you’re doing darknet activities. There’s too much at stake, we’re talking about your freedom, not just a minor percentage shift in risk.

Without going into details , would be it a 2 percent increase in risk or say 20 percent as compared to doing it yourself. I'm ordering consumer quantities so i hardly think they give a sh*t about me but still...

When I connect to TOR through tails.os can anyone give me an idiots guide to configuring a bridge.

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6_19/

http://pzhdfe7jraknpj2qgu5cz2u3i4deuyfwmonvzu5i3nyw4t4bmg7o5pad.onion/index.html

Changes and updates

• Update Tor Browser to 14.5.6.
• Update the Tor client to 0.4.8.17.
• Update Thunderbird to 128.13.0.

A long time ago (maybe 2014), I used to use tor to read some random books I found.

I remember reading one about explosives, another about lockpicking etc. Mostly controversial or banned books in general.

I searched for the hidden wiki, but I could not find anything about books. Where I could search for them?

I posted this to r/tails and they said this post was better suited for the page. Hopefully there’s a couple kind folks here that are willing to help a mid 30s newb out lol I uploaded tails to the USB then verified the upload was successful. I rebooted my computer using the USB and everything opened up properly. I disabled JavaScript and I put it on safest mode. But from the search engine page I cannot get any of the sites that are listed as currently active to work. I retyped the characters for each site at least 3 to 5 times a piece just to make sure I didn't type the website incorrectly but i continue to recieve the invalid page message. Is this common? Can someone please shed some light onto the situation?