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Russia's first politically motivated block of a Fediverse server (reestr.rublacklist.net)
submitted 5 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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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 5 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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 5 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.