cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14155096

Admin team of LGBTQIA.Social Mastodon instance received abuse email from Russian censorship agency, where they demanded to remove an account. The account in question represented a small group that ran a collaborative blog for LGBTQIA youth and adults in Russia.

Shortly after refusal to comply with agency’s demands, the instance was blocked and is now unreachable from Russia.

All previous blocks of Fediverse instaces in Russia were related to hosting CSAM.

      • tourist@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Could a Russian instance federate with an unblocked instance (e.g. lemmy.world) which federates with lgbtqia.space and then federate lgbtqia.space by proxy?

        Or does the protocol not work like that?

        Russian instance users can still read comments from LGBT instance users if the comments are left on .world though, right?

        • CyberTailor@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Or does the protocol not work like that?

          That’s technically possible but no major fedi software implements it because you can’t trust a third-party server.

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        Hm, I feel that should be easily worked around through proxies, but the problem is that the Russian authorities would go after those russian instances then

      • velox_vulnus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Would it be possible to have a shadow instance with the only purpose of circumventing blocks?

      • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 months ago

        No, but the users could just create account in any other instance federated with the blocked instance

        Or just spin up a new one in heitzner or something

  • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    3 months ago

    Waiting for a tankie essay about how it’s actually an inclusive move from russia or something like that. The last thread about China blocking lemmy.ml was a goldmine.

    • OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      Hexbear thread dunking on this:

      https://hexbear.net/post/2277150?scrollToComments=false

      Highlights include

      Funny how we constantly get told we support capitalist Russia, yet they never actually provide evidence for that.

      I’m not surprised tho as lying about communists seems to be second nature to Western bootlickers

      And

      i love how that dude makes an absolutely ridiculous assumption, as i’ve never seen a “tankie” deny that current russia is reactionary as fuck, but since he’s saying Bad Thing about The Tankies everyone just goes “hmm yea those tankies amirite? smh”

      liberals are fucking idiots, they never have any idea of what they’re actually talking about and just throw around concepts and categories with the level of understanding of a monkey playing with a power tool

      And

      “We support the Russian Federation’s opposition to US imperialism. We oppose their reactionary government including the state suppression of lgbtq+ people, minority nationalities and ethnic groups, etc. Using these issues as cudgels for US/NATO imperialism hurts all people in Russia, including oppressed minorities, and undermines the progressive nature of those liberation struggles in that country.”

      “Smdh tankies are pro-russia homophobes”

      • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi
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        3 months ago

        Great thread. I especially love how some guy aks why the thread I mentioned was a goldmine and gets immediate response with screenshot of some funny comments. I love that @good_girl@hexbear.net who took the screenshot must have seen the rest, comments like this: but still decided to screenshot only the funny comments. Anyways, happy dunking.