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Please don't block tor (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by twistypencil@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

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I know you all are dealing with DDoS and how that goes. I run DDoS mitigation for some juicy targets and do a lot of on-call response to handle those issues, so believe me when I say I know what you are dealing with.

However, that being said, it appears you are blocking tor exit nodes with a 403, likely at your web termination point (nginx, apache, whatever), and this kind of sucks.

I get that tor can bring some attacks, and I fully support a modulated response to those attacks, preferably one with a reasonable time decay, but please don't just block all of tor

Alternatively, be one of the cool kids, and setup an onion service for lemmy.world!

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[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suggest you open a post somewhere that is "I dont think people should use Tor" and we can argue that there. This seems fairly off-topic here and I don't plan on arguing with you about if I should use Tor or not. You can count that as a win if you want, I don't mind.

[–] Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would I make that post? I have never said that.

All I have done is:

Ask why you want to use Tor to access Lemmy. Clearly the site team block those endpoints because they are common attack sources. You have yet to provide any argument outside of... literally responding to me talking about why you should not trust Lemmy or The Fediverse for anything that a government would care about by... claiming you need to use it because it protects you from the government.

I then made it a point to respond to the FUD you continue to propagate because, by pretending that putting all of your traffic through tor and then connecting to laughably insecure services, you are actively hurting those who actually need to protect their activities by basically telling them something on the level of "Tape a hideakey rock to the bottom of your car".

All of which seems on topic to me. At least moreso than "I want it"