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Getting used to China now. Fun fact: Feddit.UK is not blocked here. I can use the fediverse mostly fine. Although thumbnails and images from instances that are blocked (such as lemmy.ml) don't work, neither do images from BBC articles. But it's cool. Browsing the internet is interesting, especially in indieweb spaces. Hotlinked images break a lot, anyone relying on google fonts for their site has the font break, and loading times can be slow for some places. I don't think sites with neocities subdomains work.
VPNs aren't the most reliable unfortunately. I have two and have to alternate between them. I do not know if it's a problem with the VPN, or a network thing. I read something about the OpenVPN protocol being blocked on occasion. Most commercial VPNs from western companies are blocked, so I rely on ones I've made myself back home. They work 80% of the time.
I've also been having wacky dreams that I am back in the UK and have the power to teleport back to China at any time by waking up.
Wait, so ml is blocked but we aren't? That's pretty funny!
How long are you in China for?
Lemmy.world isn't blocked. Contrary to popular belief, lemmygrad isn't blocked either. Hexbear doesn't seem to work. Mastodon.social doesn't work. It's probably a matter of whack-a-mole... Which is low priority anyway as everyone on these instances speaks English.