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You gotta be the change you want to see. Start putting every site you register/lease a domain for on the clear web also on the tor network with it's own onion address that you really own. I do it and now I get plenty of good traffic (along with all the bots/scans) over Tor to my technical hobby (radio) sites.

It's a better system that doesn't require you to trust the DNS companies to stand up to political/business/other pressure.

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I've played around with Tor hidden services a bit, and the biggest problem I have with actually using them is discoverability. Even if a site I'm looking at does offer a hidden service version of itself, all search engine links still point to the clearnet version of the site.

I wonder if Tor browser would be open to some changes to fix that problem. Maybe offering to show the onion version of a site if the site includes

    <link rel="alternate" href="http://[address].onion/" />

in its head would be a good first step.

I put a big H1 link with the tor address on my domain index pages.

Sounds great. Do you know of any clear, easy to follow guides to make this happen? Something like the DigitalOcean reference tutorials would be optimal.

It's not quite DO caliber but this gist was sufficient for me: https://gist.github.com/mtigas/565718bbb928ce439e95

It was very simple. I think what we really need is web server integration like we are starting to have with TLS.

A Tor plugin for Caddy would be cool. Or some other way to make it as easy to setup a Tor hidden service as easily as a TLS site.

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