It sounds like a decent feature if used to protect things like banking sites from potentially invasive extensions. I disable my adblocker (only extension I use) for all those types of sites.
Kanye goes by something else? You know what, I still don't care. Nevermind.
It does beg the question of why federate at all if you are going to make a walled garden anyway? I would think a private forum would cost a lot less to host too.
As someone in the InfoSec field, I also hate those people.
Not sure either. There is a lot of unhinged lefties on Lemmy; I haven't seen much commentary from the far right at all. It would be nice to find some level headed discussion that isn't strictly red vs. blue.
Sounds like your university is using a Palo Alto Next Gen Firewall which is intercepting DNS requests and responding with the sinkhole FQDN for anything they deem malicious or suspicious. You can try to override this with DNS over HTTPS but they may also be blocking that. Standard security stuff. You can also probably try to open an IT ticket and request that they whitelist the domain.
There's gonna be a lot of culture shock from authoritarians throughout the fediverse it would seem. Some people don't know what to do with a little freedom.
I hate when only one wheel works!
The answer is much less exciting. It's mainframes.
People being antisocial toward their own spouse getting up voted is a troubling sign.