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Greetings from China! I'm not much of a poster though, so admittedly my interactions are by and large restricted to comments.
I'm always browsing Lemmy by /new though (with a well curated block, ban and keyword filter), and the Australians are quite active during those times.
Hm perhaps I'm missing out on some Australian content? Any tiops on communities?
I guess the content from China is mostly in Chinese?
I don't think there are any actual Chinese communities, at least I'm not active in any. And I'm not actively following anything from Australia either really. I've come to terms with the fact that there's fairly little stuff posted on Lemmy in general, so browsing all (instead of subscriptions) and sorting by new is how I find stuff.
Yeah that makes sense. I'm on a single user instance where subscribed and /all is exactly the same which makes the problem even bigger.
There are Australians producing content on all the usual communities. Unless you're interested specifically in content about Australia or aimed towards other Australians in particular, you're probably not missing out on anything.
If that is what you want, check the communities hosted on aussie.zone.
do you use VPN to connect from China or you can connect without it?
Some instances are available, so federated content is visible if you're on one that works. But external links often don't, and you generally want to hide your online presence even if the sites you visit are not blocked, so I'm using a VPN near 24/7.
I'm surprised the great firewall doesn't block known blocks of VPN IP addresses.
Impossible, VPN providers rent server space in large data centers, just like any other "legitimate" service. If they were to blacklist entire blocks, they'd shut out a number of services people are, meant to use.
So they'd have to surgically blacklist individual IP addresses - which they do, mind you - but it's a matter of 3 clicks for the VPN provider to change to any other IP within the data center. And they operate in hundreds of locations globally, so even if one is shut down for good, you got plenty of alternatives.