Hi all

I am looking to cut back on my daily Reddit time, and this subreddit requires a relatively high amount of my time removing illegal requests.

I am considering closing / making it private, however if there is a real interest in doing something else with it, please come forward here or via DM with your ideas.

Following the closure of deep dot web, it is currently my opinion that there are no reliable central indexes of onion sites.

As a result, the question of where to find reliable links centrally and associated reviews is now more complex. Right now I have no plans to build my own site. What I will never accept on this sub for linking is:

• Just Google <site name or description>
• Here is the link for Z
• Use <random online link site>
• Use <random clearnet link site>
• Just check <description of site without a route to reliably find it>

None of these methods are reliable.

Methods I will accept:

• Use <link> because it is referenced on <reliable clearnet site>
• Use <link site> because it is referenced by <list of articles and other reliable endorsements of site>

With this said, I would be interested in building a list of reliable link sites that can be endorsed in the long term.

Information I would want to know about includes:

• Clearnet/onion
• Identity or pseudonym of the persons running it
• Date of founding with proof
• Link inclusion and removal policies

Please submit links and link sites which meet the above criteria for further consideration.

Here's some sites which (just about) makes the standard:

• https://github.com/alecmuffett/real-world-onion-sites
• Dread - See /r/DreadAlert/ - established darknet markets discussion forum
• https://dark.fail - Popular active link site endorsed from dread
• darknetlive.com - news focused site also featuring links. Disavowed since March 2024 due to collision on the Incognito exit scam.
• dnstats.net - statistics and link site since 2014 lol they scamming
• https://tor.taxi/ - established community link site
• https://daunt.link/ - established community link site from the Dread team