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.
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don’t give them ideas
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Instances hosted in Russia can’t federate with lgbtqia.space anymore.
Correct
And it once again shows why federated social media rocks 😎
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does traffic for boosts go via the original instance
That way. You can’t trust a third-party instance to proxy content, every server has to get its own copy.
If it’s a DNS block I guess Russian instances just need to direct the domain to the IP address in their hosts file
It’s always IP + DNS + Deep Packet Inspection. To access blocked websites, you have to use some sort of proxying.
