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Russia's first politically motivated block of a Fediverse server (reestr.rublacklist.net)

submitted 6 months ago by CyberTailor@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] rglullis@communick.news 32 points 6 months ago

But blocking the instance at the DNS level does not stop the content from reaching other Russian instances, right? They would have to basically track every server that is federating with them and block like this.

[-] CyberTailor@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

Instances hosted in Russia can’t federate with lgbtqia.space anymore.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Other instances hosted outside of Russia but available from inside Russia can still federated with them, though, right?

[-] CyberTailor@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Correct

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago

Yeah this seems like a total misunderstanding of how activitypub works from the orks. Not surprising a bunch of fascist idiots don't understand modern federation technology.