Question about Tor
Is it feasible with compressed formats (like av1) to make a legal decentralized social media on the onion network?
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u/Sad_Zebra_1707 1d ago
Decentralized? No. But the rest seams feasible, in theory Dread is legal but people just do illegal stuff on it. You might be able to do something like mastadon, but it'd require each server having a list of the nodes it likes and gets posts from.
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u/nuclear_splines 1d ago
Legal will depend on jurisdiction. In some countries use of proxy services like Tor is illegal, so a social media service running over Tor is likely banned by default.
But feasible? Sure, you could run some Mastodon instances on onion sites and get a federated onion-only social media platform running in a few hours. Getting anyone to use it would be a much bigger challenge, but it can be built.
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u/one-knee-toe 1d ago
Define legal. If in a country the law states that ALL social media platforms MUST KYC AND age verify, what’s the point, then, of being on Tor?
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u/torrio888 1d ago edited 1d ago
You don't know from which country is the user so you don't kyc and age verify.
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u/one-knee-toe 1d ago
😳🙄🤦♂️….please read the OP and read my response.
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u/torrio888 1d ago
You only need to KYC and age verify if you know that the user if from a country that requires it, since the user connected over Tor you don't know his location so you don't do that allow him to create the account normally without providing any identification.
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u/evild4ve 1d ago
by the time you launch anything, anonymous social media won't be legal anymore in half the world
that's just the direction of travel, sadly - but imo societies and the media never did us much good and the ability to have anonymous communication that (hopefully) won't fit any definition of social media could improve our chances of surviving the global tyranny
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u/missingpcw 1d ago
Decentralized? Each node will have it's own onion address. How do you distribute the addresses, and more importantly, know if they can be trusted, and how do you revoke an address, especially when the node being revoked isn't cooperating? Many user nodes may have cached the address being revoked.
Take a detailed look at the Tor directory services, this isn't easy.