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Community & Collaboration

The community behind anoni.net is small, volunteer-run, and built around self-hosted infrastructure. Documented partners are Tor Project, OONI, EFF, and our university hosts in Taiwan; we are open to working with more peer organizations, researchers, journalists, and individual contributors. This page lists the channels.

If you are evaluating us before a collaboration, the About page covers governance, partnerships, and how to verify what we do.

What we welcome

We are particularly interested in working with:

  • Researchers and academics studying networked freedom, surveillance, censorship, or platform regulation in the Asia-Pacific. We can share Pulse and ASN coverage data, 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 (rights advocacy, anti-surveillance, anti-censorship) wanting Asia-Pacific regional partners or wanting to translate / co-publish material with the Sinophone audience.
  • Region-specific contributors who can sharpen the country-by-country sections of our regional observatory from inside their own jurisdiction. We particularly welcome Hong Kong, Macau, mainland-Chinese-diaspora, Singaporean, and Malaysian voices.
  • Translators bridging regional reports between Chinese and English, especially long-form research that doesn't yet exist in either language.
  • Funders thinking about regional Sinophone networked-freedom work who would like to talk before any formal application or proposal.

How to reach us

Matrix (real-time, ongoing collaboration)

We run our own Matrix homeserver at im.anoni.net. Most ongoing community work happens here.

  • Web (Element): https://matrix.anoni.net/
  • Apps (Element X): Download from element.io/download and configure the homeserver to im.anoni.net after install. If you already have a matrix.org account, you can keep using it — Matrix federation works across servers.
  • Public Space (recommended first stop): #community:im.anoni.net — entry point to the relevant rooms in one place.
  • Account requests: Accounts on im.anoni.net are individually approved. Email whisper@anoni.net with a brief introduction and what you'd like to discuss; we'll reply with onboarding instructions.

Encrypted email

  • [email protected] — for partnership inquiries, sensitive material submissions, and requests that don't fit Matrix. PGP key is on the contact page. Core members handle this rotation.

GitHub

  • Source repository: github.com/anoni-net/docs — documentation site, Pulse, ASN coverage tooling
  • Issues and pull requests — open an issue for typos, content suggestions, regional-context corrections, or implementation requests. PRs welcome with a brief Matrix or email heads-up first if the change is non-trivial.

Newsletter

  • Sign up on the contact page for occasional updates (project releases, regional reports, workshop announcements).

Self-hosted tools we use

Internal coordination uses our own infrastructure rather than third-party platforms. If you collaborate with us on substantive work, you'll likely use these:

  • Matrix (im.anoni.net) — discussion, working rooms, theme rooms
  • Cryptpad (cryptpad.anoni.net) — encrypted collaborative documents, workshop notes, sensitive drafts. Account requests via [email protected]; default 50 MB of storage.
  • Etherpad — short-form collaborative notes, often linked from Matrix
  • Send — encrypted file transfer for short-lived sharing
  • SearXNG — privacy-respecting metasearch
  • Formbricks — surveys and signup forms (we use this for our newsletter)
  • Jitsi (jitsi.goodmeet.asia, third-party-hosted) — online meetings; links posted in Matrix rooms

For background on why we self-host (and why Matrix specifically), see From Discord's age verification to why we self-host Matrix.

Concrete ways to contribute

Beyond ad-hoc collaboration, the community runs structured workstreams:

Regional observation

Help expand the Regional Observatory: submit primary observations from your jurisdiction, contribute regulatory updates, or help draft the country-by-country pages currently in Tier 2 drafting. Particularly welcome from Hong Kong, mainland-China diaspora, Singaporean, Malaysian, and Macanese contributors.

Translation

The site has three editions (zh-TW, zh-CN, en). The Chinese editions are the source of truth for most content; the English edition is being rebuilt as a regional observatory rather than a one-to-one translation. We welcome:

  • English contributors helping refine the regional voice
  • Translators bridging long-form regional research between English and Chinese where it doesn't yet exist in both. Public reports from groups like Citizen Lab, Article 19, or Human Rights Watch Asia chapters are typical candidates; we don't have an arrangement with any of these organizations and we'd be doing the translation independently with attribution
  • Curated indexes for long-form research

Tor relay support

The Tor Relay on Campus initiative documents how to deploy a Tor relay at a university in the region. The first deployment is at National Taiwan Normal University; we're documenting application processes, technical setup, and outreach. Help: contribute campus-deployment write-ups, support relay operations, donate bandwidth or hosting.

OONI Probe and ASN coverage

Run OONI Probe on devices in the region — this is the most direct way to expand observation. Help: run probes, propose entries for regional websites test lists, contribute to the ASN coverage analysis tooling.

Workshops and events

We organize and co-organize workshops and meetups. Past include the 2025 Anonymous Network Workshop (NTUST) and Internet Freedom Coffee meetups in Taipei. Upcoming includes the COSCUP 2026 Anonymous Track. See Events for current and recent activity.

For sensitive submissions

If you have sensitive material (whistleblowing, leaked documents, primary observation that needs careful handling), email [email protected] from a fresh account using PGP encryption (key on the contact page), or hand off in person at meetups and conferences.

We do not advise on, or assist with, illegal activity (see the governance code of conduct for explicit refusals). For sensitive material related to journalism, advocacy, research, or personal safety, however, we'll handle it with appropriate care.

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