some primary benefits of an onion are that it is a reverse proxy (so it works without port forwarding), and you don't need TLS, and iirc there are ways to load balance it to multiple servers
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not wanting the spam that specifically comes from tor is understandable, but it would be nice imo to allow posting through tor somehow, maybe by holding all those posts for review before showing them (and even that only when necessary)
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downside is that you need a custom way to id tor posters since all users of the hidden service share the same IP, localhost. it's easier to naively allow tor posters than block them on the clearweb site if you're going to half ass the hidden service, since a malicious guy can easily get the hidden service IP constantly banned.
to prevent malicious actions, a janitor should only be able to hide (not delete), and only for posts younger than some time, like only be able to hide posts created less than 24h ago
The database is replicated from the main one to a backup every 2 hours. If the server fails, there's a docker compose for all of lainrocks to spin up another instance, i just need to switch DNS records.
