Decentralization is the the future. Freedom Hosting and Tormail taught us that in a painful way. 80% of onionland is gone, and dozens of threads have been created, asking about Tormail alternatives. Centralized services are easy targets. SR is now the biggest target in onionland by lightyears. We must decentralize the darknet drug markets before they are gone too. A good but imperfect example is Torchat. It's the only fully decentralized messaging system that runs over Tor by design. As long as you and your friends have Torchat clients, nobody can stop you from communicating anonymously. There is no server to seize. A small drawback is that Torchat runs a hidden service on your computer, which makes you vulnerable to certain attacks, but in my view it's not a problem for the vast majority of people, as long as they don't make their Torchat IDs public. When I started this thread, I wanted to solve a different problem: how to keep my activities private from the operators of the service that I'm using. The conclusion that I came to, the only way to do it it effectively, is to use a decentralized market that has no admins. Now I see that that solution solves an even bigger problem: authoritarian censorship.