![]() ![]() Tweets after the first don’t show up-no threading. Copy link to first tweet, send it to friend. I signed up through the onion site, and spent two precious hours squeezing my message into a tweetstorm: 25 tweets posted as one threaded block, through the web app interface intended for that purpose. I know that when a corporation decides how to allocate its resources, “does anyone actually use this thing?” may be asked. But I prefer to show my support for Tor-to show that the onion site is used and loved and needed. I’ve been doing this privacy-network stuff for awhile. I asked myself, Should I hide the fact that I am a Tor user? It is the problem with these centralized platforms-and it is a problem that will not be solved by my silencing myself now.įirst step: Create a Twitter account. Events are moving fast: Every day, every hour counts! I need a bigger public platform-fast. I’m now involved (and, disclosure: invested with money I first threw in for idealistic reasons). This doesn’t seem like the right place to be elaborating my position, so I will stick to what’s directly relevant below: A large number of people lost their life’s savings to the total meltdown of a major cryptocurrency network. Now, I face the maelstrom of current events in a financial mass-catastrophe. Some people feel so strongly about privacy that they don’t enjoy spilling their guts on social media. Please don’t mistake me as unappreciative when I evaluate the latest results as Twitter playing privacy-theater.Ī few days ago, I did not have a Twitter account. ![]() I know that he’s been devoted for years to these onions this is his baby. I don’t want to come off as deprecating Alec Muffett’s effort. Here is mine, for the next person in a similar situation. Such reports could have saved me an awful lot of trouble. ![]() This is a public service announcement: You can ruin yourself if, in a critical moment, you rely on that onion and its presumed implications of Tor-friendliness.īefore I tried the onion, I did do a cursory web search to see if there were any recent user reports of this nature. Recently, it was hailed with plaudits for turning around and opening an onion. Twitter has a poor track-record in its treatment of Tor users. ![]()
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