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I love how the Fediverse/ActivityPub prevents region blocking from being effective (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Lemmy.ml, the most popular instance fo Lemmy out there, is not accessible in my country unless I use a VPN. But, I can subscribe to any community that exists on lemmy.ml from here and even post on those communities from this account.

I love this aspect of Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

404 is still a server response, so I imagine no response at all would be the way to go.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yea true, so you would just get a timeout (or an error from the DNS server that the domain does not exist if you use a 'government approved' DNS server.

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

A lot of censorship-happy governments have specific message that show up when a page is blocked telling you quite explicitly that the page you're trying to access is banned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In contrast, in China you just get the browser’s default error page like you typed in a url wrong to a page that doesn’t exist, in essence they give you no error or indication info at all, just blank.

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

You'll likely get a permanent redirect to some government site telling you access is denied. The same thing happens on a corporate or school network that blocked a domain.