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Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China (emacs.ch)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Funny if true.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Does anyone know a reliable site for checking? This is just a random one I found: http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=lemmy.ml

lemmy.world seems to not be blocked. I have no idea how they make these decisions 🀷

Edit to add: FWIW Wikipedia has a short list of test sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_mainland_China#External_links

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Seems like hexbear.net is blocked as well

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

But chairman Xi what about our emotes!?

xigma-male

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Oh SHIT THE LAYOFFS GOT TO US lea-breakdown

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Interesting. It wasn’t when I tested it yesterday or several weeks ago using this: http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=hexbear.net

But I have no idea if these tools are any good. This one seems to indicate that it’s accessible but very slow https://www.dotcom-tools.com/china-firewall-test/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

It might be discussion of piracy/VPNs or something like that. China's got rules about that stuff too AFAIK. Maybe if one of the admins can read/write Simplified Chinese they could reach out to the relevant government bureau and request clarification.