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You can access twentytwo.town through Tor if you'd like. It can be a bit slow, but it's helpful if you are connecting from within a restricted or monitored network, or if you'd like to hide your IP address from this server.
You can do this by installing torsocks on your system first. It should be packaged for a lot of different systems like Debian, macOS, OpenBSD, etc.
Repology information on torsocks
After installing, you can now run SSH from within Tor by running the following:
$ torsocks ssh your-username@twentytwo.town
You can also view the gemini capsule from within Tor by doing the same with a gemini client. This doesn't work for all clients, but seems to work well with Kristall and Lagrange.
$ torsocks kristall 'gemini://twentytwo.town'
Make sure to increase the network timeout in your client's settings as well if it's showing a timeout error.
If you're interested in keeping your traffic wholy within the Tor network, you can also connect to twentytwo.town through an onion service. Learn more about how onion services work on their website:
The onion address for twentytwo.town is:
yl3g5ct56t7h3pmrd3kohmcirzjif6dhtkdqcczqweovfkc2ytvawfad.onion
To use it, simply replace twentytwo.town with the onion address:
$ torsocks ssh your-username@yl3g5ct56t7h3pmrd3kohmcirzjif6dhtkdqcczqweovfkc2ytvawfad.onion $ torsocks kristall 'gemini://yl3g5ct56t7h3pmrd3kohmcirzjif6dhtkdqcczqweovfkc2ytvawfad.onion'
Yes, you can connect to twentytwo.town using Tor, but you can also use Tor from within twentytwo.town! If you'd like to anonymize your connection when:
You can freely do all that from within twentytwo.town using torsocks. Try the following command:
$ torsocks lynx
Additionally, you are able to share files over Tor by using OnionShare. It's an app that you can share files or create temporary anonymous websites with. Simply run onionshare with the file or directory that you want to share, and you're good to go:
$ onionshare my-file.txt
You can even create a more permanent website by adding the "--stay-open" option:
$ onionshare --stay-open my-website/