it does require an internet connection yes. It doesn’t have much in the way of offline functionality (it just interacts directly with the API). I’m not sure if Codeberg allows Tor access.

I looked into the dependencies just now. I thought I maybe only used a few 29 functions, but actually I heavily use vtable, which is 29 too. Maybe look in to getting Emacs from Debian backports, or even building it yourself (I do so, and I’m not at all an experienced source-builder person: it’s quite easy, and also common.)

(my old) emacs lemmy client: https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem.el.

it works? i’m using it to post this…