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[–] Anivia@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tor and I2P are too dark for the regular person to go to for their social media just because they want anonymity. There's too much really nasty stuff there. The kind of crime that actually harms real people, not some rich shareholders.

Uhm, no? You still have to actively search for and visit those sites, you don't just open tor browser and randomly land on dread

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No but it's the association that makes you suspicious, gets exit nodes banned and just gives it a bad reputation. That damages more mainstream initiatives because nobody wants to be known as promotor of the silk road and csam network.

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The services you're mentioning became as large and 'dark' as they are due to actually being secure services, any secure enough service will become like that eventually. Any service not like that is usually not secure enough unfortunately.

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago

Yeah that's why I think there should be a balance.

Like the commercial VPN scene. Torrent a few movies and you're totally safe. But harm kids or sell weapons and you will eventually get your door knocked down.

That's why VPNs have an ok reputation and they are publicly advertising. And tor has this dark shadow over it.