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Russia's first politically motivated block of a Fediverse server (reestr.rublacklist.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] 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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[+] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Saw a thread on hexbear and all I see is this lmao

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

Saw a thread on lemmy.ml and all I see is this lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

This is getting confusing to read lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Wait, do people genuinely defend moves like this?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Of course! They say they do it to protect themselves against Capitalist Corruption!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

This is on .ml, so I'm sure we'll see some of it shortly. Or this post disappears out of a window.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

They don't, you've fallen for anti-communist disinfo

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

The next step of evolution from "leave the multi billion company alone"

If people defend Nintendo when they shut down yuzu you will definitely find a few idiots that will worship a government of any kind

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hexbear thread dunking on this:

https://hexbear.net/post/2277150?scrollToComments=false

Highlights include

Funny how we constantly get told we support capitalist Russia, yet they never actually provide evidence for that.

I'm not surprised tho as lying about communists seems to be second nature to Western bootlickers

And

i love how that dude makes an absolutely ridiculous assumption, as i've never seen a "tankie" deny that current russia is reactionary as fuck, but since he's saying Bad Thing about The Tankies everyone just goes "hmm yea those tankies amirite? smh"

liberals are fucking idiots, they never have any idea of what they're actually talking about and just throw around concepts and categories with the level of understanding of a monkey playing with a power tool

And

"We support the Russian Federation's opposition to US imperialism. We oppose their reactionary government including the state suppression of lgbtq+ people, minority nationalities and ethnic groups, etc. Using these issues as cudgels for US/NATO imperialism hurts all people in Russia, including oppressed minorities, and undermines the progressive nature of those liberation struggles in that country."

"Smdh tankies are pro-russia homophobes"

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Great thread. I especially love how some guy aks why the thread I mentioned was a goldmine and gets immediate response with screenshot of some funny comments. I love that @good_[email protected] who took the screenshot must have seen the rest, comments like this: but still decided to screenshot only the funny comments. Anyways, happy dunking.

EDIT: Also, most of comments in the thread are crying about how could I ever imagine tankie defending anti-LGBT move from Russia, because tankies don't actually support Russia (sure). Well, this comment proves that tankies are definitely able to do all mental gymnastics to defend moves like that:

If they defend China closing LGBT center, am I so crazy to expect them to defend Russia closing LGBT instance?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Link?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

https://lemmy.ml/post/13427282

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Waiting for you to install gentoo

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Spoken like a true fascist! Ukrainian ultra right judging by your surname.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It literally means "student" in my language 🤦

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@stepanzak

So? Doesn't mean you aren't a Ukrainian fascist, regardless of meaning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah, cuz it's not a Ukrainian surname and I'm not a Ukrainian. Although I think my great-great-grandfather was.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This can be easily circumvented using an alt Fediverse instance, right?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 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 4 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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Would it be possible to have a shadow instance with the only purpose of circumventing blocks?