Nostr Web Client

It's so third parties (corporations, financial institutions, governments, etc) can't tie your identity to any online activity. More plausible deniability also if you use an anonymous payment method VS a credit card 100% tied to your identity.

You have a to trust the VPN to some degree though. Trust can be minimized by the VPN being as transparent as possible and not requiring personal info, but never removed completely with a VPN. But if you do trust them it is a very useful tool on your belt for privacy and anonymity against third parties.

I recommend Mullvad or IVPN.

No personal info required (randomly generated account numbers only), allows payment via Bitcoin and Monero, open source apps, has servers outside of five eyes, and RAM-only servers.

Obscura also looks promising (TBA):

https://obscuravpn.io/

But for anything requiring some serious anonymity you can't beat Tor (pros and cons to each).

CitizenPedro 2y ago

Yeah, by the way, am I crazy for training myself to use Tor for my social network (Nostr and Twitter) usage?

Tor is slow but at least it is completely anonymous...

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Saberhagen The Nameless 2y ago

Na you're not crazy, but you're more hardcore than me lol.

Didn't even know you could still use Tor with Twitter.

I can't be bothered though not worth it for me. Low risk, high inconvenience, and unecessary for many things. A lot of things don't work well (or work at all) with Tor so I personally just use a good VPN like Mullvad for everyday normie things.

I only use Tor for specific tasks like some Monero and Bitcoin wallets, certain encypted messengers, or freeweb purchases. Just practice good opsec and keeping your identities/nyms completely separated and youll be fine.

Alternatively you could also use a frontend for Twitter like Nitter on desktop or Squawker on android for an additional layer between you and Twitter.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

https://github.com/j-fbriere/squawker

hit with a hint of s 2y ago

Write a tutorial! Please

Proudmuslim 2y ago

Tor's not enough if you want anonymity. Stylometry is the first thing that comes to mind for de-anonymization over Tor. Your writing style can give you away instantly, so consider using something like Anonymouth to rewrite your posts before you make them.

The way you (physically) type (as in typos, typing speed, etc) is also very effective at breaking anonymity, so use software like kloak to get around that. Whonix comes with kloak already, so if you're using it (which you should be) you don't have anything to worry about there.

Consider browsing over Nitter as nostr:npub14a6q6xvt4wuv0wpdpfr336e4fweldtu6np3ehpw55h83xuw2h2zsgyz6rn said, since you want to limit your exposure as much as possible (especially on proprietary platforms).

This isn't even the tip of the iceberg, just so you know. True anonymity online is a rabbit hole that you'll spend a huge amount of time going down if you're serious. It's stupid for me to even give this advice in the way that I am with an identity tied to so much of the stuff I do online, but I don't have any plans to utilize the info so I might as well share it before I end up forgetting it.

Have fun on the tinfoil road! You'll get burned out if you don't :)