Lemmy should find a way to allow people to use the site while accessing it from Tor Browser.

If there is a risk of people using Tor Browser to post malicious files or links then people using Tor should be able to post on Lemmy but without images or links.

Based on the current state of some countries and attacks of certain minorities, including Latinos and Trans people in the USA, it isn’t safe to post certain views on Lemmy when the Tor Browser is not allowed, including not being allowed for registration.

Even with a VPN and even with browser that resists fingerprinting, people make mistakes without Tor Browser. Data centers sell information about the timing of packets (netflows) to multiple parties and VPNs offer less protection than people believe. This information can be correlated with netflows from ISPs. All of this information can potentially be correlated with real identities without Tor Browser.

In the USA, the current government is increasingly adopting radical tactics to cater to the religious fundamentalist poor and the ultra-wealthy. Without Tor Browser, it is not safe to be critical of these policies on lemmy.

  • 柊 つかさ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    I always thought of Lemmy as more of an alternative to big tech, not really as a tool against state censorship. The features seem to be build accordingly. Of course it would be cool if such feature are added. Hopefully Veilid will become mature enough to build applications like Lemmy or Discord on top of it.

    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Language barrier is also a big problem. Most people from Russia, Iran, mainland China, are not gonna know English very well to be able to find Lemmy. Especially with the western meme culture, so they’ll probably feel very left out and therefore participate less, if at all.

      If I hadn’t immigrated to the US and grow up immersed in western culture, I’d not understand 95% of the memes here.

    • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      alternative to big tech, not really as a tool against state censorship

      I’m not sure these 2 are separate. They seem to work in tandem on restricting people’s freedom. Government sets direction, big tech implements. In return government makes it so that alternatives to big tech have a harder and harder time.