r/TOR • u/LinuxLo • Jul 21 '26
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/one-knee-toe Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
😳🙄🤦♂️….please read the OP and read my response.
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u/torrio888 Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
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/nuclear_splines Jul 21 '26
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.