[tor-bugs] #30777 [Community/Outreach]: Run a "set up new bridges" campaign

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#30777: Run a "set up new bridges" campaign
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     Reporter:  phw                 |      Owner:  alison
         Type:  project             |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium              |  Milestone:
    Component:  Community/Outreach  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal              |   Keywords:  anti-censorship-roadmap
Actual Points:                      |  Parent ID:
       Points:  3                   |   Reviewer:
      Sponsor:  Sponsor30-must      |
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 We currently have around 500 obfs4 bridges. That's not a lot and some of
 them don't work properly, so the effective number is even lower. It's time
 to ask volunteers to set up more bridges.

 One way to do that is by writing a blog post and doing outreach on
 Twitter. We should point people to our
 [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4proxy
 obfs4 setup guide]. Ideally, we would start with a small group of people
 (e.g., by posting to tor-relays@), fix any issues that we discover in our
 guide, and then repeat the outreach campaign for a larger set of people.

 Another thing worth considering is what kind of bridges we want:
 * We certainly need more obfs4 bridges even though the protocol still has
 some UX issues for operators (see #30471).
 * More vanilla bridges would be useful too but, since #28655, only if the
 bridge doesn't also run an obfs4 protocol. Otherwise BridgeDB won't hand
 out the vanilla bridge line. As an added bonus, modern tor bridges may
 currently be resistant to the GFW's active probing as discussed over in
 #30500.
 * Once #23888 is done, we should also encourage people to install the
 snowflake webextension.

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