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John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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It's brief, around 25:15

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo

If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them :)

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (8 children)

The thing about fedi is how do u stop it. Ban every instances ip? make it illegal to use? They can try but they will have very little success.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    You make laws like the Online Safety Act in the UK. You then attach a multi-million dollar fine to anyone who doesn't adhere to the bonkers unenforceable stipulations in the text.

    All of a sudden, no one but a corporation with a legal department can safely run an instance without putting their money and eventually freedom on the line.

    They might not be able to just stop it, but you can force us into a pirate scenario where we have to do it in the dark.

    We are likely starting to slowly head into 1984 territory. IF Fascim continues to rise, eventually, non-state-run media will be deemed unlawful and they'll do what they can to make it go away.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    This is why fedi needs to support federation over tor

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    When they get serious about encryption they will make tor illegal as well.

    Tor will not hide you from the feds once they decide they really want to go after encryption. They can either own enough endpoints to find you directly or simply go and shut down all the endpoints. Or, If they have other IP leaks that are unpublished...

    On the upside they are firing most of the competent people in government so there's a chance the CIA can't do that anymore

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If china has failed to stop tor I doubt the us can do much better

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Blocking tor at the firewall level isn't difficult. Anything with packet inspection can do it.

    Edit: I've looked into this some more and you're kinda right. It's SSL and with very little to give it away except talking to exit nodes. Most of the systems I'm looking at are just discerning it from IP, the few exceptions require SSL MITM, which I also wouldn't put by the government.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    They'd shut down large instances, pressure WordPress to remove support, in the US at least, it could be seen as too risky, if they wanted to they would find a way. I don't think this would happen easily in the EU though.

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