WorseDoughnut

To simply use TOR you do not need to run any kind of guard/middle/exit relay (this has always been the case), but yes there is the risk of being held accountable for other users data while hosting an exit relay.

This hasn’t gone away thanks to any legal precedent as far as I’m aware, so I imagine it all depends on the tech literacy of your local jurisdiction & how good of a lawyer you can afford.

In theory yes, but practically speaking trying to access a lot of the modern web over TOR would be at best painfully slow and at worst almost impossible thanks to DDoS protection providers like cloudflare.

I promise you that like 90% of the creepy stories you’ve heard are people either exaggerating or just straight-up lying to sound cool on the internet. The kind of stuff that actually needs to operate over the TOR network doesn’t exactly want to be easily discoverable by normal people.

You’re no more likely to accidentally stumble across illegal / dangerous content while using TOR than you are while using any other browser.

There are none. It is carcinogenic.

I made a kbin and a beehaw account originally, then left beehaw when they raised a ton of red flags about how incapable they were at moderating at scale. Then I made a Vlemmy account until the insurance just disappeared overnight. So at this point I’m on kbin exclusively by accident I guess, but I do like the default mobile UI and the Artemis app more than any of the current lemmy UI options (though I am waiting eagerly for Sync).

Curious what parts of kbin are confusing or more difficult to use when compared to Lemmy?

As far as I can tell, they’re mostly the same, especially coming from Reddit

Still bitter about Vlemmy, and I haven’t made a replacement account yet.

Were they filled with spam? Or does your instance just really hate Star Trek lol

Used to be a manager, and thankfully left right before they brought back the Mexican Pizza…
That thing was / is torture to make, and always breaks or is put in the bag sideways (because it literally does not fit in the largest bag if you try and just place it in straight down).

The Nacho Fries comes in a close second though, but mostly because frying it essentially halved our capacity to fry literally anything else throughout the day.

It’s far more likely lemmy will be receiving 3rd party apps in the near future, meanwhile kbin’s API is still nonexistent as the developer has far more pressing work to focus on to get the service running nice and smoothly.
Not that’s really a “downside” to kbin or anything like that, since the mobile web UI is fantastic already and made even better by some great user styles & scripts; I’m currently using it via Firefox mobile and thanks to kbin’s PWA support it works great with the container “Install” feature in the browser (has it’s own icon, no browser title bar, but still affected by add-ons).

But tbh, until the federation issues with all these different instances being overloaded gets sorted out, I’ll be using both kbin and lemmy.

They’re not though, they’re just forcibly replacing mods who don’t want to open with ones who do want to open…

Totally different 🙃

When DeStefano tried to file a police report after the ordeal, she was dismissed and told this was a “prank call”.

Why am I not surprised.

Must still be some growing pains, because your instance definitely doesn’t have kbin.social blocked.