To access the important data of the forums, you must be active in each forum and especially in the leaks and database leaks section, send data and after sending the data and activity, data and important content will be opened and visible for you.
You will only see chat messages from people who are at or below your level.
More than 500,000 database leaks and millions of account leaks are waiting for you, so access and view with more activity.
Many important data are inactive and inaccessible for you, so open them with activity. (This will be done automatically)
I would recommend using a paid VPN if you want to navigate through the Dark Web
Double protection as we all know that TOR Brower has its own VPN but still make sure to connect to another VPN
Safety Before Anything Else. But you will be safe, chill
In some cases, VPNs are not needed but to be on the safe side you may activate one.
Go to google and search 'dark fail' the first hit will be for a site that is basically a directory of some of the main markets and forums on the dark web. Bare in mind that all of the links contained on the site are .onion links and must be opened using the TOR browser, they will not work in a standard browser like Chrome or Firefox. Use this as your starting point, there is a forum called dread you can get the link to it on the aforementioned site. Make an account talk to the people there, they can guide you further.
Run Tails on a USB, don't activate a root user, and don't change any settings. You'll be good to go.
Just know that your IP can still be leaked by Tor nodes. And as long as a government entity doesn't see you as a direct threat to them, you shouldn't be too worried.