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.
It’s worse than being reversible. The problem is that it’s unprovable. A switch from “zero logging” to “log everything” is wholly undetectible to users. You have to rely on blind faith that a profit-driven entity will act in your interest and resist their opportunity to profit from data collection. All you have is trust. Tor avoids that whole dicey mess and reliance on trust.
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