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.
If you live in an oppresive regime, there isn’t any posibility to use anonymously an social media, there the only possibility is using a P2P communication system, eg. https://securebit.chat/ or similar. All other, like Lemmy or other from the fediverse are traceable, even with VPN or even not accessible in such regimes with heavy controled servers.
Not a fan of the marketing speak on that page, as a cryptography nerd there’s a lot of questionable stuff.
SAS authentication is stone cold dead in the LLM age. P2P with friends is trivially trackable by the ISP and can easily map who knows who. ECDSA isn’t “industry leading”, that would be EdDSA or something based on Risetto, or a pq algorithm like ML-DSA
The choice of cryptographic primitives in Securebit was made based on a balance between maturity, availability, and implementation simplicity at the time of the current architecture design. The goal was not to introduce experimental or fragile constructions, but to rely on well-studied, widely deployed primitives that are available across standard cryptographic libraries and can be audited and replaced as the protocol evolves. The system is intentionally designed to be modular. Cryptographic components are not treated as fixed marketing claims, but as replaceable building blocks. This is important because in real-world systems, cryptography evolves, and protocol agility is more valuable than locking into specific primitives. If there are concrete proposals for improving the cryptographic layer - including modern primitives, protocol adjustments, or security model refinements - contributions are welcome. The project is open to review and discussion via the GitHub repository.