Do someone use lemmy+tor? And what benefits it gives to me?

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    4 months ago

    A little bit more anonymity I guess, but be mindful that Lemmy is very public in nature. That includes all of your votes, so it’s still pretty easy to profile.

  • foremanguy@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    There’s not really a point when using Lemmy, the only benefit is to hide your identity to the server but nothing else really

  • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    4 months ago

    Wow, a surprising number of people here don’t know how Tor works.

    Yes, Tor Browser is a huge boost to privacy. There’s a reason its the browser of choice for domestic abuse survivors, refugees, and investigate journalists.

      • t�m@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        You could Read the documentation to spin up your own instance in a podman container and from there create an account on it to browse the feeds, but otherwise I wouldn’t advise you to do that if for privacy. I mean you could but, I definitely wouldn’t.

  • Grey Cat@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I don’t agree with what the others are saying.
    You’ll get the benefits of Tor as you would on any other site. And you’ll help the Tor network by using the service and keeping other users more private.
    Just be mindful about what you say about yourself

  • 0x0
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    4 months ago

    If you login to a site through Tor you are in fact deanonymizing yourself.

    If you’re concerned about your ISP then maybe a VPN would be a better bet.

    • refalo
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      4 months ago

      Not if you only ever used tor to access the site.

      • 0x0
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        4 months ago

        True… bonus points if the instance has an .onion site.

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    4 months ago

    If you log in w/ tor to account you’ve logged it w/o it you deanonymise yourself and it makes no sense.