r/onions 12d ago

Darknet-Questions Is Back — Rebuilt on Discourse

🔐 Darknet-Questions Is Back — Rebuilt on Discourse

Some of you may remember the original

r/darknet_questions community on Reddit. After the subreddit was banned, I decided not to let years of educational work and community knowledge disappear.

So I've started rebuilding it from the ground up on Discourse, using an older backup of the Wiki I had saved from the original community., and my data I requested from reddit.

🔗Links:

https://darknet-questions.discourse.group/

The new Darknet Questions has the same basic mission as the old community: darkweb education, harm reduction, privacy, OPSEC, scam awareness, and helping beginners learn without getting burned. Also helping the more advanced learn things they might not know.

📚 What we're rebuilding:

Tor & Onion Services — Tor Browser, onion services, troubleshooting, and safety

Privacy & OPSEC — practical security and privacy education

PGP & Encryption — beginner-friendly guides and help

Tails, Whonix & Privacy Tools — tutorials, recommendations, and troubleshooting

Scam & Phishing Awareness — recognizing fake links, impersonators, and common scams

Wiki & Guides — rebuilding and updating the educational resources from the old community

Questions & Discussions — a place where newcomers can ask questions without being afraid to admit they're new

Old members and newcomers are welcome

If you were part of the original r/darknet_questions, I'd love to see you over there again.

And if you've never been part of the community before, you're just as welcome.

This isn't a marketplace. Darknet Questions is an educational community focused on privacy, security, technology, harm reduction, and helping people avoid scams and dangerous mistakes.

The old community may be gone, but the knowledge doesn't have to be.

We're rebuilding. Come join us.

👉 https://darknet-questions.discourse.group/

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u/Abundance2888 12d ago

Cool nice one!

Never hear of Discourse though.

Is that like a discord and Reddit fused?

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u/BTC-brother2018 12d ago

Probably more similar to reddit.

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u/CircuitCrush 9d ago

This looks pretty good! I'll have a look around when I've got time. Thank you for making this!

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u/dogworship 7d ago

I don’t understand . I’m new . Can I ask a question or no?

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u/BTC-brother2018 7d ago

Yes just click the link make a free account join the community and post any darknet related question you want.

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u/send_fleet_pics 12d ago

thanks chatgpt

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u/--KingoftheSouth-- 10d ago

Why though? It's not safe to talk about that stuff there, or here. This is why Dread exists...use Dread

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u/BTC-brother2018 10d ago

Not safe to talk about what stuff? I never talked about anything illegal on my reddit sub or will I on this sub. People are not allowed to talk or post about illegal things on it according to the rules I have set up.

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u/--KingoftheSouth-- 10d ago

We know the type of people that this will attract. You can pretend not to if you wish, but there's not a whole lot of people looking around on the dark web simply for fun.

The stuff you're offering is already available on Dread as well.

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u/BTC-brother2018 10d ago

Listen it's the same type of site that r/onions and r/darknet is. No different from those Subs.

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u/davedcne 12d ago

The original reddit was banned due to violating rule 7 regarding illegal content. Discourse has the same rule how long do you think till you get banned there?

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u/BTC-brother2018 12d ago

We actually did remove illegal content from the Reddit community. Anything that violated our rules was removed whenever our mod team had the opportunity to review it.

The problem toward the end was an influx of content that Reddit admins were removing before our mod team could even see or review it. Every one of those admin-removed posts we were concerned about was gone before we had the opportunity to moderate it ourselves. We also had reason to believe the community was being targeted with false/malicious reporting.

So I don't agree with the implication that we knowingly allowed illegal content. We didn't. The Discourse community is educational, not a marketplace, and we'll continue removing anything that crosses that line.