Privacy‑First Online Communities Outside of Tor
The digital world has long looked to Tor as the gold standard for anonymity: routing traffic through multiple relays, hiding IPs, enabling hidden services, resisting censorship. But there is a growing wave of communities and platforms choosing privacy‑first alternatives that do not rely (solely) on Tor for various use cases. These are motivated by trade‑offs around usability, performance, discoverability, threat model, legal/regulatory risk, and community growth.
