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I love how the Fediverse/ActivityPub prevents region blocking from being effective (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 12 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years 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.

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