Hey guys,

Years and years ago, Reddit had a sub where you could discuss darknet markets. For those uninitiated, a darknet market is a Tor hidden service where you can buy contraband with cryptocurrency.

Unfortunately, several years ago, Reddit shut down this sub because it “violated new rules about the sale of illegal goods” and most of that discussion has moved elsewhere. But with the rules being looser on the fediverse, would anyone be interested in setting up a forum for such discussion here? Would the admins here even allow it?

I’m really excited about how Lemmy can bring back certain communities disallowed by Reddit.

  • BrikoX@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    It really depends on the instance and their own rules. Some might allow it, while others wouldn’t. It would definetely need to be aggressively moderated to avoid promoting any illegal sales, etc.

    Only admins of the various instances can really clarify this.

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      1 year ago

      I think the purpose of the dark net markets is specifically to enable illegal purchases

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        1 year ago

        Talking about and actively promoting it are 2 different things. Also not everything sold there is illegal.

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          I think it could be considered promoting if people are actively linking and sharing. Not to say it shouldn’t be created, but that’s probably grounds for a lot of instances to defederating (whether that’s a good or bad thing).

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          1 year ago

          I wonder if an instance can be created with an onion address and federated. It wouldn’t have to be JUST dark net market stuff but could also be anyone super privacy focused. I’m thinking either all Lemmy and kbin instances would need a local tor router or it would need a frontend proxy address.

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            Someone on one of the privacy communities were talking about a tor hosted Lemmy ~week ish ago and said a few people were working on getting one up. Not sure on the specifics though.

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          I wonder if an instance can be created with an onion address and federated. It wouldn’t have to be JUST dark net market stuff but could also be anyone super privacy focused.