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Does lemmy allow posting and commenting through tor? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by ringington@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Does Lemmy allow posting through Tor? I know signup varies by instance, does the same variability apply to posting after signup, or is it more uniformly permissive/hostile once account exists?

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Depends entirely on the instance, Lemmy is just a piece of software.

[–] ringington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I meant to ask if it is like reddit, which shadow bans immediately?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lemmy doesn't have shadow bans. The other instances also don't know what IP you posted from. Only your own instance can see that.

[–] ringington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks! that explains it.

[–] KssioAug@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

I know others already answered you, but I just wanted to explain further. That's the main advantage of Lemmy: being federated. It means that each instance, even though they communicate with each other, is independent (they have their own rules, their own userbase, and are hosted in their own servers), which means that, even if one decides to ban people for using Tor, others wouldn't follow through. Dbzer0 wouldn't punish you for it though.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

Again: any given instance could do that – or not. There is nothing about Lemmy, the piece of software, that either requires or prohibits instances from having such a policy.

[–] jake_jake_jake_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Depends on the instance.

[–] Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Depends on the instance.

lemmy.ml, dbzer0, hexbear are all ok on TOR.

lemmy.world is questionable

[–] hatingfedizen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

.world often blocks me from commenting just for using my everyday VPN

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have no problems with it.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Me neither. Anyone opposed, please raise your hand.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I am not aware of any instance that is hosted only on Tor, but you can use Tor while logging into any instance to remain more anonymous... depending on the kind of credentials they ask for when you sign up.

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago

There are no onion addresses on threadiverse: no.
Some even use cloudflare tor disabled: no.

[–] NotFrenchJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Make the question(s) more interesting:

Are there instances which offer users the option to access their user UI+API via tor hidden services?
Are there instances which primarily exist as tor hidden services, and thus, federation traffic itself must go through the tor network if an instance wants to federate with them?
Are there clear net instances which would be willing to federate with the hypothetical tor hidden service instances mentioned above?