Let’s say I live under an oppressive regime (don’t we all?) How can I use social media anonymously, so I don’t face reprisals from the government?

Mastodon, Lemmy, Reddit and other social media platforms restrict users who connect through TOR or a VPN.

Is there any way I can create an account on these services and use them anonymously?

Thanks in advance for any information and advice you can provide.

  • Natanael@slrpnk.net
    10·
    20 hours ago

    Depends on how repressive.

    Often your main method of staying safe is appearing harmless.

    You can find dedicated Mastodon and lemmy hosts more receptive to VPN users.

    Anonymous use is hard due to stuff like timing attacks and writing style recognition, etc, especially if you post publicly. You want to mimic another style, for example. And create plausible deniability around timings (like say scheduled posts)

    • ConsistentParadox@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      14 hours ago

      Thank you, I will keep timing attacks in mind when making my posts. Writing style recognition is not a big problem since they won’t have any samples to compare my posts against.