People in parts of the world where there is Internet censorship can connect to users running the "Snowflake" plugin and access the Tor network via that user and a bridge. It works like this: People running a web browser in parts of the world where there is no Internet censorship can install a plug-in called "Snowflake". The Tor Project has now launched a new initiative called "Snowflake" which aims to make censoring the Tor network even harder. It is fair to say that making a lot of connections would be one way to learn all the Tor network's bridges in order to block them and prevent access to the Tor network. We can only speculate if the explosion of supposed Tor users and the subsequent rapid decline in Iran had anything to do with learning all the Tor networks bridges or not (the graph appears to have leveled off at a higher base-line than it used to have). Then the amount of "new users" dropped off a cliff. The amount of Tor users appeared to explode in Iran early June this year. Tor's new "Snowflake" browser-plugin aims so make Tor even more censorship-resistant by allowing anyone with that browser plugin to act as a proxy for Tor's bridges.
It is, of course, possible to pretend you are a lots and lots of end-users in order to learn all the bridges. They are not listed in the Tor directory and they are meant to be hard to learn. Bridges are computers who act as middle-men between end-users and the Tor network.
Tor has a feature called "bridges" which helps by-pass local censorship. The Onion Router's many nodes are banned by quite a few tyrannical regimes around the world.
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