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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I am curious about why lemmy.ml is blocked in your country. Is the 'ml' domain generally blocked? Or was lemmy.ml specifically added to some block list?

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It just says 502 Bad Gateway. I'm not even sure if the block is intentional on their part, or a server issue of some sort.

[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

A 502 status code does sound more like an error from the server, yes. The correct HTTP status code for a block by the government would be 451. But I'm not sure if countries that try to block social media respect this, they probably want to hide the fact that that website exists entirely. So they might go for a 404 error instead.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I like that the code is 451, but yeah no one is going to explicitly use it when they're blocking things. A little too on the nose.

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