Document Onion Service Support (Tor .onion)

[maltfield]

This issue is a request to add to the Lemmy Documentation how to setup an instance on a Tor Onion Service (.onion site).

• https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/index.html

I used Lemmy for the first time today. I went to several different Lemmy Instances in the Tor Browser, and I was surprised that none of them asked me to switch to their .onion site.

I searched the documentation, and I couldn't find anything for queries of onion and tor

It might be the case that the process to point an Onion Service is very simple (install tor and proxy it over localhost). Or it's possible that there's a ton of issues with https redirects or domain name collisions.

In any case, I think the process to setup lemmy behind a Tor Onion Service should be documented. Once that's done, it will likely be adopted by many server admins and this would be a huge boon for the privacy of all lemmy users.

[Nutomic]

It should be enough to have Tor listen to incoming requests and then forward them to Lemmy. Federation over Tor would be more complicated though. Its probably best to discuss this on https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support

[dessalines]

I don't know much about onion services, but if someone would like to figure out how to do that, and contribute docs, we'd be glad to merge it.