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A couple of days ago i noticed something off with blahaj.zone. I couldn't see images posted by users on blahaj, so i thought it was a problem on their side.

Well guess fucking what? After 3 days, it was STILL broken, so i opened it and...

Blocked. They fucking blocked blahaj.zone. Actually beyond parodyπŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ Why? What was the point? there's trans content literally everywhere on lemmy. what's next, block them all? So now if i want to see a post by a user on blahaj, i have to turn on my VPN (protonvpn.com is also blocked in saudi, jfc) just to see it. Fuck this place. πŸ™„

I swear a couple of days ago it worked. This is a mild annoyance (hence the community) but still.

It's so over guys, MBS said no more 196 πŸ˜”

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It sucks, but it's also one positive thing about the Fediverse - if Lemmy was a central platform, it would be completely gone for you now.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Yeah, thank god. I'm more baffled on why fucking saudi arabia would care about a tiny trans-ran instance on a niche software. must've been a slow day there, i guess.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago (1 children)

youre kidding right. one of the most oppressive shitty, religion-based garbage of a country that subjugates 50% of its population and you wonder why its acting shitty?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm more suprised at the fact that they blocked such a small website, but i guess they really leave nothing left behind. I gotta be more careful on lemmy if that's the case.

And i know KSA is shitty, i really do, but i can't do shit about it. I'm not suprised they'd block a trans instance, just such a small one.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

its what happens when horrible people have money to burn

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Hey at least Lemmy is becoming popular enough for the authorities to block us.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (15 children)

If I were in Saudi Arabia I'd be using a VPN anyways.

Also, if I were in Saudi Arabia, I'd be trying to leave Saudi Arabia

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago (12 children)
  • Also, if I were in Saudi Arabia, I'd be trying to leave Saudi Arabia

Probably not, as long as you are not openly queer, you wont see any reason to leave co sidering the ridiculous amounts of perks you get, its not a 3rd world country or a backwater nation, it is a rich monarchial regime.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

geoblocked

"Geoblocking" would mean that it's blahaj who don't want saudis on their instance

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Damn πŸ˜”

yeah that was my bad, sorry

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Use Tor if you can, and people outside of these restrictive countries can help by running Snowflake in their regular browser.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Is it weird this makes me proud to be a blahaj user?

Like when a transphobic government starts hating, you know you’re doing something right.

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[–] mlg 32 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Lol I'd tread a bit carefully.

KSA likes to chase people and have them "disappeared" for their opinions.

I know a guy they picked up for 3 months and when he finally showed up, his poor mouth was zippered shut.

And he was an international too.

I'd look around for a solid VPN solution anyway. Useful to have in any country.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

So now if i want to see a post by a user on blahaj, i have to turn on my VPN just to see it. Fuck this place. πŸ™„

One of the first conversations I was on when I joined was one between Ada, the lemmy.blahaj.zone admin, and some guy in a Middle Eastern country. Apparently his country had blocked lemmy.blahaj.zone at the national network level.

The Threadiverse is federated, so one could view posts from lemmy.blahaj.zone elsewhere, but not images, which did not propagate.

I thought that at some point, lemmy servers had started also storing images posted on other lemmy servers, but upon checking, it looks like they have not. I did run into one -- no longer up -- that had, according to the description, had apparently been modified to do this, probably to afford its users more privacy and not expose their IP addresses other than to their home instance. In theory, if you could find one that did so, you could make that your home instance and just rely on propagation of images through the network.

EDIT: It sounds from this year-old post like a lemmy instance can at least be configured to cache remote images:

https://futurology.today/post/6440

I suppose it'd be possible to go look and find out exactly what the current situation is.

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