For the past four months beehaw has been unreachable to those of us on the Tor network. Glad to see access was finally restored. Was there an attack?
I could really use a way to periodically backup my posts to my local disk so if Tor is spontaneously blocked again I at least have my history. I’ve not found a Lemmy equivalent for Mastodon Archive.
(edit) For security, it would be a good idea to setup an onion instance. The Tor network has built-in DDoS protection for onion hosts.
i’d say that yes, it requires some trust of others, however in a lot of cases you can be reasonably confident - independent audits, and a company that has built their whole business on being privacy focused is unlikely to risk their whole business over some metadata
and even with tor, you’re actually making a similar compromise - your exit node can see the same data that a VPN provider can, but you don’t really know who runs it - you certainly can’t guarantee much of an independent audit
sorry, i take that last part back - a vpn provider can tie your metadata to you, whilst your exit node can not… but they can still see a decent about of metadata