Take part
You can join at any time, and you don't need a technical background to start.
The community behind anoni.net is small, volunteer-run and built around self-hosted infrastructure. Documented partners are the Tor Project, OONI, EFF and our university hosts in Taiwan, and we are open to working with more peer organizations, researchers, journalists and individual contributors. If you are evaluating us before a collaboration, the About page covers governance, partnerships and how to verify what we do.
What we welcome
- Researchers and academics studying networked freedom, surveillance, censorship or platform regulation in the Asia-Pacific. We can share the data behind Tor Relay Watch and OONI Coverage, talk through observations, and where useful be cited in published work.
- Journalists covering regional Internet-freedom stories. We can share what we observe and, where we know the local terrain, point you to people closer to the story.
- Peer organizations in rights advocacy, anti-surveillance and anti-censorship who want Asia-Pacific partners, or want to translate or co-publish material for a Sinophone audience.
- Region-specific contributors who can sharpen the country-by-country coverage from inside their own jurisdiction. We particularly welcome voices from Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia and the mainland Chinese diaspora.
- Translators bridging regional reports between Chinese and English, especially long-form research that has not yet been translated.
Joining the discussion
Most ongoing work happens on our own Matrix homeserver, im.anoni.net. Start with the community's public Space, which gathers the relevant rooms in one place, and say which topic interests you in its room.
No Matrix account yet?
Accounts on im.anoni.net are approved individually. Email whisper@anoni.net with a brief introduction and what you would like to discuss, and we will reply with onboarding instructions. An existing matrix.org account works too, since Matrix federates across servers.
The 2026 tracks
- Personal privacy guidancePractical guidance graded by exposure: everyday use, sensitive work and high-risk situations.
- Tor relays on campusCampus relays with EFF and the Tor Project. NTNU runs one, and the proposal kit and SOP are public.
- Anonymous paymentsPaying anonymously beyond cash, from stablecoins to on-chain tools, with the law around them. Research stage.
The background is in Continuing from 2025 into 2026, and the quarterly deliverables are on the 2026 roadmap.
Day to day
- Discussion happens in Matrix rooms, one per topic as needed.
- Shared documents are written in CryptPad, including event notes and anything sensitive.
- Video calls use Jitsi, with links posted in the relevant Matrix room.
Accounts and entry points for these tools are on the services page.
Running Infrastructure
Every Tor relay or bridge gives people under censorship one more way into the Tor network. Each guide goes from installation to day-to-day operation, and notes what to watch for in Taiwan's legal and network environment. For proposing a relay to a university and working with its IT and legal staff, see Tor Relays on Campus Track.
- Tor Relay Setup GuideHow middle, bridge and exit relays differ, installation, configuration and monitoring, and the legal and administrative questions to settle first.
- Tor WebTunnel Bridge Setup GuideDisguising Tor traffic as ordinary HTTPS, from the domain, TLS and nginx reverse proxy to running the bridge in Docker.
- Onion Service Setup GuideSetting up a v3 onion service the way Tor documents it, wiring it to nginx and subdomains, and running it after launch.
- Pinning the Docs Site's IPFS MirrorAn always-on IPFS node and a scheduled script that keep one more copy of the docs site's IPFS mirror.
Other ways to take part
- Send us sensitive materialRecords of abuse, unpublished research or personal data go through our self-hosted Send, with a one-download link.
- Contributing to the Tor ProjectTranslation, relays, meetups, and bug reports: ways to contribute to Tor upstream, and its official channels.
- Maintaining the OONI Test ListHow the list behind OONI Probe's website tests is categorized and prioritized, and how to help maintain Taiwan's tw.csv.
- Development Environment SetupAccounts, tools, and the pull request workflow for contributing to the docs site, Pulse, and ASN Coverage.
- Work with us as an organizationWhat we can do together with civil society groups, advocacy organizations and newsrooms, and what we can't.
- Writing styleThe rules for voice, terminology, headings and sentence patterns shared by the community site, the docs site and News.
- Contribute to the docsDiscuss first, then the GitHub flow, the types of contribution and how licensing works.