Are there any .onion instances or mirrors of Lemmy available?

Lately in the light of more Internet censorship I’ve been trying to establish more reserve channels for communication. As part of it, I am exploring some of the .onion services that are available.

Since at least 2023, there was a discussion of using Lemmy on Tor network. Are there any actual instances or mirrors of instances available through it? Also, is it possible to federate between .onion and clearnet Lemmy instances?

This is something I’d love to study more in my free time. Sadly, free time is increasingly hard to come by, so I haven’t gotten past setting up anything beyond onionshare sites.

Same! Hosting and properly managing Lemmy is far beyond my expertise, even without the added layer of onion hosting specifically

Running Lemmy it’s pretty easy. Setup some containers. Unless you plan to open registration but keep the instance only for yourself (like I do), there is really no more maintenance needed.

Probably you don’t even need a server in itself, a PC that stay turned on most of the day will work just fine, data exchange between federated instances will resume then your Lemmy is online

Maybe update the containers periodically and check that disk usage doesn’t grow too much, but that’s up to which and how many communities you subscribe to, since you are the only user of the instance.