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They fucking blocked blahaj.zone (lemm.ee)

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A couple of days ago i noticed something off with blahaj.zone. I couldn't see images posted by users on blahaj, so i thought it was a problem on their side.

Well guess fucking what? After 3 days, it was STILL broken, so i opened it and...

Blocked. They fucking blocked blahaj.zone. Actually beyond parody🤦‍♂️ Why? What was the point? there's trans content literally everywhere on lemmy. what's next, block them all? So now if i want to see a post by a user on blahaj, i have to turn on my VPN (protonvpn.com is also blocked in saudi, jfc) just to see it. Fuck this place. 🙄

I swear a couple of days ago it worked. This is a mild annoyance (hence the community) but still.

It's so over guys, MBS said no more 196 😔

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[-] ech@lemm.ee 4 points 36 minutes ago

Do I misunderstand how federation works, or should a block like that not do anything unless your home instance is hosted in that particular country? The instances communicate with each other, not directly with the users. It's similar to viewing blocked content through a VPN.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 4 points 34 minutes ago

You understand it correctly. The problem is i can't see anything other than the text of their posts/comments. Posts with images, i wouldn't be able to see the image.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 3 points 29 minutes ago

Ah, right. Media is still hosted on its instance. Didn't consider that. Bummer :/

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 2 points 10 minutes ago

Instances have a choice to enable a new Lemmy feature that will proxy all images through the local instance. Whilst your instance may not do that today it may do in the future. Or you could move to an instance that has this enabled. I don't know how to list instances with it enabled but it should be obvious by the URL used by images when viewed from an instance.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 2 points 5 minutes ago

Yeah, i've heard of it. But the only instance i know with it is lemmy.ml and, well. It's lemmy.ml. Besides, i like lemm.ee, if i have to use a VPN for it, i guess i have to.

But thank you for the advice!

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 31 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago)

Yes, but images and other files are hosted on the instance to which the community belongs, so any pictures embedded in posts will not be visible.

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Use Tor if you can, and people outside of these restrictive countries can help by running Snowflake in their regular browser.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 14 points 1 hour ago

Love tor, it's a lifesaver (literally :) ) and thank you for the tip!

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Installed Snowflake, thanks for the heads-up. Pretty simple way to try to be a little helpful. Was like two clicks.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 hour ago

texas will probably block us next.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 5 points 1 hour ago

Sorry to hear that, hopefully it will turn out all right for trans people in the US.

[-] Bezier@suppo.fi 22 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

geoblocked

"Geoblocking" would mean that it's blahaj who don't want saudis on their instance

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 17 points 2 hours ago

Damn 😔

yeah that was my bad, sorry

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 hours ago

My fuckers blocked catbox.moe, most western news sites and slowed down youtube traffic, but lemmy still flies under radar thankfully. I wish you still have your ways to choose what content you want to consume.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 7 points 2 hours ago

That sounds worse, what country are you living in? Sorry to hear it. And thanks for the wishes :)

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 hour ago

The Motherland, of course. I was born into her teenage phase of 90\00s and now I see her rapidly becoming one young and salty widow (:

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 5 points 1 hour ago

Oh dear, hearing anything about russia almost makes me proud to a saudi :).

Through our suffering, we are brothers 😂

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 hour ago

Hell yeah. We a cockroaches in their kitchen, never surrender and always persist whatever they like us or not 😉

[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 3 points 30 minutes ago

How's life for you besides internet censorship, if you don't mind me asking. I'm just curious. Good luck out there!

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 minutes ago

Thank you.

For me, it's edging on absurdity and feeling like I'm the one who feel like we are going insane, but luckily for me I found my close knit circle of friends who share that feeling and I myself adapted to see everything through some lense of satire. Even though I live in it.

What still hurts tho is how my relatives and people around are so uninformed and hostile to everything ukrainian or just european, even if they talk about relatives there, and then they are just like 'why they don't like us' lol. Yeah, like, no reason. And then they order IKEA-like furniture for their flats because it's of european quality!

My sanity is saved by my partner, my friends and my still intact trust in people, even if they are dumb af.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 hours ago

Saudi would take a hacksaw to them if they could

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 8 points 3 hours ago

MBS's wet dream every night.

[-] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 77 points 4 hours ago

It sucks, but it's also one positive thing about the Fediverse - if Lemmy was a central platform, it would be completely gone for you now.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 37 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, thank god. I'm more baffled on why fucking saudi arabia would care about a tiny trans-ran instance on a niche software. must've been a slow day there, i guess.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 43 points 4 hours ago

youre kidding right. one of the most oppressive shitty, religion-based garbage of a country that subjugates 50% of its population and you wonder why its acting shitty?

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 26 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I'm more suprised at the fact that they blocked such a small website, but i guess they really leave nothing left behind. I gotta be more careful on lemmy if that's the case.

And i know KSA is shitty, i really do, but i can't do shit about it. I'm not suprised they'd block a trans instance, just such a small one.

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[-] breakingcups@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago

I'm a way that's a downside too, it's now easier for shit regimes to block content they disagree with, without blocking the larger services. Less people will be disrupted by it, so less people will care. See: blocking Facebook,YouTube or WhatsApp vs. blocking a single activist site.

[-] moody 4 points 2 hours ago

Federated content gets around that though.

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[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Sometimes these blocks only happen at the DNS level. Consider switching to cloudflare (https://1.1.1.1/)

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago

Same thing on cloudflare. That's a full national ban, alright. Unfortunately there's no way to bypass without a VPN, and VPNs are quite slow for me.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

As someone from a jurisdiction with some of the most sophisticated VPN blocking technologies (Russia), consider hosting your own VPN - it can be as easy as firing up a VPS anywhere and inserting one string, like with Outline for example.

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 1 points 25 minutes ago

Thanks for the advice (And my condolences for being in russia, too 😔). I've been thinking of setting up a VPN on my router, but the performance be too costly. We'll see how it goes, i guess.

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

My condolences.

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