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Tips and Tricks.

By default, all feeds are loading through Tor. So, if Tor is slow or it is offline, few things will load.

To improve that, we added a Trusted Relay section in your relay lists. You can add there all the relays you trust enough to use without Tor. In that way, even if Tor is down, you will still see posts from those relays.

Of course, you can also disable Tor or disable the option on privacy settings to not use Tor for untrusted relays. But that is not recommended.
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MAHDOOD 4mo ago 💬 2

Is tor overkill if you already use a VPN?

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Vitor Pamplona 4mo ago 💬 1

Probably. I am not sure if your VPN can handle these many connections though.

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MAHDOOD 4mo ago

I definitely can’t turn off my VPN. So do you recommend tunneling amethyst while connecting through tor?

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aco 4mo ago 💬 1

You don’t really wanna double up. Tor+VPN makes you more identifiable

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MAHDOOD 4mo ago 💬 1

Is that actually true? I hear mixed opinions on this

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aco 4mo ago

Depends how you connect. VPN before Tor - VPN can see your real IP and in theory could log and correlate metadata. Tor before VPN - you’re anonymous to the VPN but you are trusting them but they can see your traffic. Honestly, if you’re good on Tor just use Tor. If you use a VPN, just use that. Unless, you’re doing some really shady shit, those I can’t help with.