https://geofox.org/tags/tor/ Recent content in Tor on Geoffrey Richard Hugo en-us Fri, 22 May 2026 22:35:08 +0200 https://geofox.org/posts/decentralized-social/ Fri, 22 May 2026 19:55:00 +0000 https://geofox.org/posts/decentralized-social/ <p>A few years ago I wrote a <a href="https://geofox.org/posts/password-manager/">series about taking back your privacy</a>, starting with the humble password manager. That series was about <em>defense</em>: stopping other people from reading your stuff. This post is about something adjacent but different — <strong>ownership</strong>. Who controls the place where you speak, and who can take it away?</p> <p>You&rsquo;ve probably lived it: an account is suspended with no appeal. A platform changes its rules, its owner, or its algorithm overnight. A whole community disappeats because the company hosting it pivoted, got acquired, or simply switched off the lights. None of this requires malice or even a government, it&rsquo;s the default failure mode of putting your entire online identity on infrastructure you don&rsquo;t control.</p>