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potential fixes for being unable to view files.catbox.moe (see "Connectivity Issues") (catbox.moe)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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catbox.moe has become one of popular hosting websites I’ve seen here on lemmynsfw. If you cannot connect to their site (especially files.catbox.moe pages), check out the “Connectivity Issues” section of their FAQ, which is linked by this post. The dev’s commentary can get in the way of the FAQ, but the advice worked for me.

Regions affected: Afghanistan, Australia, Iran, Ireland, UK

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) affected: Comcast/Xfinity, Quad9, Spectrum, Rogers

And, of course, I’ve pasted it below for folks who can’t access catbox’s faq page. Please don’t hold me accountable for this reproduction.

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Why can't I access Catbox/access files on Catbox (files.catbox.moe)?

Good question! It turns out certain governments in the world hate freedom of information, don't have net neutrality, don't see online service providers as legally exempt entities, or a combination of the three!

You will have issues accessing Catbox/files on Catbox if you are connecting from the following countries or providers:

Austrailia [sic.]

Why? - The Australian government had a heart attack after the Christchurch shooting, and decided that Catbox was a terrorist propaganda spreading website, and has instructed multiple Australian ISPs to implement DNS blocks of Catbox's domains.
How to resolve? - Changing your DNS servers to a public server (i.e. 8.8.8.8, 76.76.2.0, or 208.67.222.222) or utilizing DoH should mitigate this problem.

Ireland/UK

Why? - Unfortunately the love of footy has overtaken the sensibilites of the British and Irish governments, and they have decided to implement an IP level block on Catbox's primary IP address, due to clips of games being uploaded to Catbox..
How to resolve? - You will need to utilize a VPN in order to evade this traffic hijack.

Iran

Why? - Unknown, but I'm sure you can probably make some pretty accurate guesses.
How to resolve? - You will need to use a VPN to bypass the IP-level block.

Afghanistan

Why? - Unknown, but I'm sure you can probably make some pretty accurate guesses.
How to resolve? - You will need to use a VPN to bypass the IP-level block.

Comcast/Comcast Business

Why? - Comcast Business' "SecurityEdge" hijacking attack intecepts traffic going towards Catbox. Residential customers are blocked by "xFi Advanced Security" I have been unable to determine if this is a DNS level block, or an IP level block.
How to resolve? - Comcast Residential: Disable the "xFi Advanced Security" hijack on your router. Comcast Business: Disable the "SecurityEdge" hijack on your account. See here.

Spectrum

Why? - Spectrum's "SecurityEdge" hijacking attack intercepts DNS requests for Catbox for an unknown reason.
How to resolve? - Spectrum Residential customers should disable the "SecurityEdge" hijack in their router/account settings, or use a VPN to bypass the hijack.

Rogers

Why? - Unknown. It appears to be dynamically filtering web traffic to Catbox.
How to resolve? - Disable the "Advanced Security" hijack attack in your Rogers settings

Quad9

Why? - Quad9 actually pulls an aggregate list of URL blacklists and uses them for their filtered DNS service. Catbox is frequently added to no-name blacklists for various reasons.
How to resolve? - Use Quad9's alternative DNS server 9.9.9.10, or switch to another public DNS server.

Margaret Sanger (1879 - 1966) Margaret Sanger, born on this day in 1879, was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. The organizations she established later evolved... in c/[email protected]

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

Although Sanger rejected racist bigotry…

Gotta take a break from my regularly scheduled porn posting to add a note to that.

Even in her most eugenics book, The Pivot of Civilization, Sanger did not tie fitness for reproduction to any particular ethnic group. It appears that Sanger was motivated by a genuine concern to improve the health of poor mothers she served rather than a desire to eliminate their stock. Danger believed that all their affiliations arose from their unrestrained fertility, not their genes or racial heritage. For this reason, I agree that Sanger’s reviews were distinct from those of her eugenecist colleagues. Sanger nevertheless promoted two of the most perverse tenets of eugenic thinking: that social problems are caused by reproduction of the socially disadvantaged and that their childbearing should therefore be deferred. In a society marked by racial hierarchy, these principles inevitably produced policies designed to reduce Black women’s fertility. The judgement of who is fit and who is unfit, of who should reproduce and who should not, incorporated the racist ideologies of the time. (p. 81, emphasis added).

Roberts, D. (1997/2017). The Dark Side of Birth Control. In Killing the Black Body (pp. 59-103; twentieth anniversary ed.). Vintage Books.

how have you been keeping your communities active since the Reddit API migration died down? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The only complaint I think I have is with downvotes (especially of fetish or niche content) …

Absolutely. Half the communities I post to aren’t mainstream so the posts fluctuate pretty heavily with upvotes and downvotes.

Sometimes it’s predictable. For example, hentai of women with dicks get less downvotes than men with pussies. Other times, I feel like I’m playing the lottery.

I do my best to ignore votes in the meantime. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

how have you been keeping your communities active since the Reddit API migration died down? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's mostly me posting in [email protected], with votes on the posts being either on the cusp of or just barely into double digits for a 400-ish subscriber community.

Yup! That describes my experiences with [email protected] . And I try to post to other communities that I want to see active but it’s hella slow going.

I tried to enable the horny posters by writing post titles as questions, which usually works great on reddit. The most engagement I get on here is “you didn’t include source on this one” 😅

how have you been keeping your communities active since the Reddit API migration died down? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess I’ll start. Back on Reddit I was moderating a 150k sub subreddit so I didn’t need to post daily. Now I’m moderating two communities (maybe 1.1k subs total). and most everyone is lurkers. Every few days I try to post, but it’s tough without feedback. Besides upvotes and downvotes, I got no clue what people want. Struggling to build engagement and to get people to post.

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how have you been keeping your communities active since the Reddit API migration died down? (lemmynsfw.com)

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

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At this point, we’re beyond the big wave of new users in early- to mid-June with the protests against Reddit’s API policies. (I was one of them!). There was lots of enthusiasm, a bunch of new communities, and lots of posts.

But it seems like a lot of the activity is dying down. How are you (and your communities) doing? How have you been keeping your communities active?

Can I sit on you (respectfully) ? [F] in c/[email protected]

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

yes, cute butt. but how are you keeping your skin so clear??? Are we talking air brush, post production, skin care regimen, baby sacrifice, ....? everyone else in the comments are sleeping on the real question