They fucking geoblocked blahaj.zone

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• gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You are very naive, and should probably be a lot more careful when in Saudi Arabia.

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  • breakingcups@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Thank god for VPNs though.

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    • moody@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Federated content gets around that though.

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• Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Hey at least Lemmy is becoming popular enough for the authorities to block us.

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Can’t have shit in Saudi, not even Lemmy 😤

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The good thing about Lemmy is that due to its distributed and federated nature, it can’t be fully blocked. You can just use a different instance and see all the same content (assuming no instance blocks between the instances).

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    • poplargrove@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Couldnt you just copy the list of instances lemmy.world or a similarly large instance federates with (its in the footer), or grab a list of Lemmy instances from e.g fedidb.org to block?

      I feel that would block most of the network, and doubt there would be much value left in joining whatever unconnected instances left.

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• Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If I were in Saudi Arabia I’d be using a VPN anyways.

  Also, if I were in Saudi Arabia, I’d be trying to leave Saudi Arabia

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Easier said than done. At least, for the second one.

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    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What are the obstacles in the way of leaving?

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  • answersplease77@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    the government also thretens people who use vpn with jail and heavy fines

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  • Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    • Also, if I were in Saudi Arabia, I’d be trying to leave Saudi Arabia

    Probably not, as long as you are not openly queer, you wont see any reason to leave co sidering the ridiculous amounts of perks you get, its not a 3rd world country or a backwater nation, it is a rich monarchial regime.

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    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Would those perks be extended to most people, or only to a certain subset of people (ie straight, male, religious)? Like, would a bisexual, atheist woman receive the same perks? I get the impression that a lot of people still wouldn’t feel accepted there.

      I’m genuinely curious. Your comment prompted me to do a little research. I found that Saudi Arabia has been making strides toward women’s equality in the past few years. It’s doing a lot better than it had been even just six years ago! At the same time, this thread exists, so… I’m skeptical that Saudi Arabia would have enough benefits to outweigh the restrictions that someone like myself would have to live with.

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    • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Rich… But only to the royals/businessmen.

      Most of us live normally if not a little worse off than the average westerners.

      The only perk I have at all is healthcare. The west is basically better at everything other than that.

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• Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  geoblocked

  “Geoblocking” would mean that blahaj doesn’t want saudis on their instance

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Damn 😔

    yeah that was my bad, sorry

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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Is it weird this makes me proud to be a blahaj user?

  Like when a transphobic government starts hating, you know you’re doing something right.

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I guess MBS didn’t like 196 😔

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Dude was like

      Image Nah

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    • zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      he doesn’t want citizens of the Kingdom to see how few upvotes his memes were getting

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I bet he didn’t even post before leaving

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• mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • gregor@gregtech.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ooooh this is a pretty cool tool, I’ll set up the docker container on my homeland.

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    • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You can also run a full Tor relay: community.torproject.org/relay/setup/guard/

      There are tutorials on YouTube:

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=npg3cBJusnA

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgxUsdxl0ak

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  • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s a great recommendation, it’s always important to practice bypassing potential censorship as you do not always know what is being hidden from the public.

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• mlg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Lol I’d tread a bit carefully.

  KSA likes to chase people and have them “disappeared” for their opinions.

  I know a guy they picked up for 3 months and when he finally showed up, his poor mouth was zippered shut.

  And he was an international too.

  I’d look around for a solid VPN solution anyway. Useful to have in any country.

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s what i’m afraid of, too. Doing such risky things in the middle of the den of snakes. There isn’t much they can do to a visitor, but they can do what they please to “threats” and dissidents.

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    • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Why would you ever visit that shithole of a country?

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So now if i want to see a post by a user on blahaj, i have to turn on my VPN just to see it. Fuck this place. 🙄

  One of the first conversations I was on when I joined was one between Ada, the lemmy.blahaj.zone admin, and some guy in a Middle Eastern country. Apparently his country had blocked lemmy.blahaj.zone at the national network level.

  The Threadiverse is federated, so one could view posts from lemmy.blahaj.zone elsewhere, but not images, which did not propagate.

  I thought that at some point, lemmy servers had started also storing images, but upon checking, it looks like they have not. I did run into one – no longer up – that had, according to the description, had apparently been modified to do this, probably to afford its users more privacy. In theory, if you could find one that did so, you could just rely on propagation through the network.

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  • kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If i remember correctly after the downfall of reddit and the mass migration to Lemmy happened a big issue was CSAM spreading across the Lemmy servers. Wouldn’t surprise me that that is the cause that images are no liner stored across servers.

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  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Some shitheads started to spam CSAM and it got cached on other instances too. db0 admin created a tool to check every upload via library of hashes of known dangerous images (not images themselves). Since then, most images are stored locally on instances and aren’t cached by others.

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    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s not what my tool is doing

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s good to know, thank you. Unfortunately alot of the communities i spend time in have a lot of blahaj users, so i don’t have context of the post sometimes. Better than nothing, though.

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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Pro tip: Don’t “click here”!

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    man that page is so fucking annoying, everything i try to open anything it’s just blocked. All sites critical of islam/saudi/sauds, and alcohol/porn/and anything that they hate. Even tor and vpns are blocked, i need to use a mirror to get them, which may not always be safe (atleast for the VPN, tor has trusted mirrors)

    ngl i think of running a vpn on my router, literally just not to see that fucking page anymore (and security too, ofc :) )

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    • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Just as a heads-up: What you just wrote is an admission of a crime in SA. Everything you post on the fediverse is public. And you now know they’re aware of Lemmy.
      I hope you are absolutely sure whatever you’re using to hide your identity is bomb-proof, and that you’ve never posted any identifying info under this account or any other one with the same username.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Use Tor snowflakes. They are very resistant to censorship and many of us in the western world run the extension so that you can get access to accurate information.

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    • lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m not aware of how exactly blocking works there, but if it’s similar to China and Russia, consider subscribing to a VPN provider that supports stealth proxies (e.g. Shadowsocks or VLESS); that’s harder to block.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well its Saudi Arabia after all. It isn’t exactly known for being all that high on the freedom index.

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, but it’s a little weird how they’d go out of their way to ban such a small and obscure website. I didn’t even know the feds knew about lemmy. Besides, it’s been fine for a long time for me.

    But this was bound to happen eventually, i guess :/

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    • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I didn’t even know the feds knew about lemmy.

      Probably just an automated list of blocking then. At least I would assume theres block lists floating around at those levels

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    • Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Stay safe friend.

      Without giving away potentially anything dangerous to yourself, in case they are watching. Any idea what place you intend on disappearing too?

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  texas will probably block us next.

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I wish this was a joke but these days I wouldn’t put it past them. I don’t think it would hold up terribly well since the US doesn’t have any form of advanced censorship.

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    • 31337@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      With the current laws on the books, Texas could probably sue Lemmy instances because they contain pornographic content and they don’t verify users’ identity.

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  • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The book bans are currently practice before they start banning more resources such as Wikipedia.

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    • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They can never fully ban knowledge, no matter how hard they try :)

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• andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 (:

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Tor with Snow flakes is probably what you want.

    You could even use Tails to avoid leaving a trace.

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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They fucking geoblocked blahaj.zone.
  I suppose THEY is Saudi Arabia.
  How can you be surprised about that? Saudi Arabia is a Sharia law country. An absolute shit stain of a country in many more ways than this.
  You can fucking get a death penalty for posting something against Sharia Law on any site. Actively using Lemmy could be enough to see you in jail.

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The last line was a joke. Anyways yes it is about Saudi Arabia, and I’m no stranger to how shitty they are. I’m surprised that such a niche forum could be targeted, websites about trans stuff get banned all the time.

    I knew this happen eventually, I just didn’t know when.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m surprised that such a niche forum could be targeted,

      If you can find it, authorities can too. Sounds like you are far from careful enough, considering where you are.

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  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Saudi Arabia is shit, but anyone who uses the term Sharia law is a dolt.

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    • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Why? it’s an actual term. شريعة

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• Doorbook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It is not realistic to think the saudi government cared that much about this. The way it works is someone send a request to block the site. If there are banned words including “sex” then it will be block. You can request for it to be unblock and say it’s a social media site. They have different rules. Remember reddit is not blocked.

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Saudi would take a hacksaw to them if they could

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    MBS’s wet dream every night.

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• FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just click there and tell them it shouldn’t be blocked.

  I am sure they’ll listen!

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That shit’ll get me on a watchlist, trying to access a website for trans people 😂

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    • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I was joke but, maybe go find the worst bigot you know, and do it from their computer?

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• viking@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Proton works in China if you set the protocol to “stealth” in the setting, maybe that works for Saudi as well?

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It works without stealth here, too. It’s a little slow, tho. granted, i am using the free version.

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    • viking@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ah ok, I’ve got the paid version. If you happen to be or know a student, they offer a 50% discount through studentbeans.com, only $2.50 a month.

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  • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Proton works in China if you set the protocol to “stealth” in the setting

    With or without alternative routing?

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    • viking@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Without.

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• Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I didn’t know Saudi can block fediverse instances

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  • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A lot of websites are blocked here.

    Porn (60,000 BLOCKED PORN SITES!), alcohol/drug stores, Gay sites (from blogs to forums, anything), anti islam websites like wikiislam, and just non-muslim religious shit in general. we have a lot of banned christian sites.

    VPNs + tor is also banned too.

    For some reason, israel.com + idf.il are also blocked. weird considering saudi-israel’s relationship.

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    • Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thats even worse then i Live(Which most of the stuff are blocked are Vpns,Porn sites and some lgbtq sites i am pretty sure btw am not in saudi am living in a country bordering it) Tor isnt blocked here

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• ech@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• Ludrol@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  same vibe as queer.af

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• Rhoeri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They must have thought that admin defending a troll was the last straw as well.

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Please don’t use so many swear words, as they might execute you.

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• earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I blocked blahaj.zone voluntarily. Same as the tankie-zone.

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• hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because trans content is against god. Or something like that.

  What’s 196?

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Change the title from “they” to “Saudi Arabia”.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Blocked. They fucking geoblocked blahaj.zone.

  Geoblocked for whom?

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You should still be able to see the blåhaj content on your Lemmy instance. If not it’s time to switch instances.

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• joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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• feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Weird, so did I.

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