There should be a message button in the sidebar to the right. If you are using a cell phone or something you have to click the button in the top right to open the sidebar. Alternatively just add /message/ to the end of their profile link.
What about the fact Vanguards isn't available on mobile? It leaves you identifiable, as well as the fact a cell company could very easily identify a ToR connection if there was no VPN and even help speed up the process.
Vanguard is an investment firm, and if you bought the phone with cash and an (e-)sim with cash or crypto yes a cell company will know but the don't know who's the person using Tor or the phone is.
dread i understand since it's not illegal to use, idk what abacus are thinking though, i guess it's worth letting users sacrifice their opsec for some extra sales
he's referring to vanguards, it's an addon to prevent deanonymization attacks
https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-vanguards-add-onion-services/
it's primarily for services, but clients can use it too in the lite mode
I recommend encrypting all dm's and putting your pgp public key in your profile. If you don't, then consider using privnote as the messages self-destruct after they are read.
https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-vanguards-add-onion-services/
it's primarily for services, but clients can use it too in the lite mode
The only time I would recommend it is just reading sites or Dread. If you are making any nefarious purchases, I would not use anything but Linux.