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Russia's first politically motivated block of a Fediverse server (reestr.rublacklist.net)
submitted 7 months ago by CyberTailor to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14155096

Admin team of LGBTQIA.Social Mastodon instance received abuse email from Russian censorship agency, where they demanded to remove an account. The account in question represented a small group that ran a collaborative blog for LGBTQIA youth and adults in Russia.

Shortly after refusal to comply with agency's demands, the instance was blocked and is now unreachable from Russia.

All previous blocks of Fediverse instaces in Russia were related to hosting CSAM.

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[–] CyberTailor 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Right. However, instances hosted in Russia can't federate with lgbtqia.space anymore.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Hm, I feel that should be easily worked around through proxies, but the problem is that the Russian authorities would go after those russian instances then

[–] tourist 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Could a Russian instance federate with an unblocked instance (e.g. lemmy.world) which federates with lgbtqia.space and then federate lgbtqia.space by proxy?

Or does the protocol not work like that?

Russian instance users can still read comments from LGBT instance users if the comments are left on .world though, right?

[–] CyberTailor 8 points 7 months ago

Or does the protocol not work like that?

That's technically possible but no major fedi software implements it because you can't trust a third-party server.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, but the users could just create account in any other instance federated with the blocked instance

Or just spin up a new one in heitzner or something

[–] CyberTailor 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

just spin up a new one in heitzner

Russian bank cards are accepted virtually nowhere, and only few hosting operators accept cryptocurrencies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah true. So other instances is the best bet, and better used over tor to mask the connections

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

But hosting ops do accept crypto. Have a look on https://monerica.com