Lineage OS user. Don't care.

Paywalled.

Time to get serious about running my own instance. I now have to wonder what kind of political opinion I might voice which could make the instance operators liable. This is not tolerable long-term.

I had no problems communicating a higher limit. They are not AWS but you can get 100s of instances.

Email in the 1990s and email in 2020s is the same if you're running your own MTA.

TLAs, LEOs and criminals are both Tor end users and have an interest in attacking Tor users.

Everybody has the resources to run Tor relays and even exits, though the latter can become a massive legal nuisance. Servers are cheap. Read the Tor mailing list archives.

As to 'mostly used by hackers and pedos', please provide the evidence. Factual one, not non-sequiturs based on faulty assumptions.

I've been using it since the early days and ran relays and exits. It's good for anonymity against your ISP, advertisers and lesser adversaries than being targeted by TLAs. Can be a bit slow. Make sure to use encryption to protect against bad exit nodes.

Evidence for your claims, please.

VPN tunnels don't magically become transparent when packets pass UK fiber and routers. And legislation doesn't translate well into which software people are allowed to run, for endpoints in UK. They can try to become North Korea of course, good luck with that.

Load leveling. Specific policies. More control and performance, if it's your own instance.

Considering the TikTok user demographics, you'd do better without its search results.

Too late for that. Technology has been redefined to mean whatever Si valley IT tech bros are up to.

I recommend to unsub and build topical communities.