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They fucking geoblocked blahaj.zone (lemm.ee)

submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A couple of days ago i noticed something off with blahaj.zone. I couldn't see images posted by users on blahaj, so i thought it was a problem on their side.

Well guess fucking what? After 3 days, it was STILL broken, so i opened it and...

Blocked. They fucking geoblocked blahaj.zone. 🤦‍♂️ Why? What was the point? there's trans content literally everywhere on lemmy. what's next, block them all? So now if i want to see a post by a user on blahaj, i have to turn on my VPN just to see it. Fuck this place. 🙄

I swear a couple of days ago it worked. This is a mild annoyance (hence the community) but still.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well its Saudi Arabia after all. It isn't exactly known for being all that high on the freedom index.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago (7 children)

Yeah, but it's a little weird how they'd go out of their way to ban such a small and obscure website. I didn't even know the feds knew about lemmy. Besides, it's been fine for a long time for me.

But this was bound to happen eventually, i guess :/

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Do I misunderstand how federation works, or should a block like that not do anything unless your home instance is hosted in that particular country? The instances communicate with each other, not directly with the users. It's similar to viewing blocked content through a VPN.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yes, but images and other files are hosted on the instance to which the community belongs, so any pictures embedded in posts will not be visible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

You understand it correctly. The problem is i can't see anything other than the text of their posts/comments. Posts with images, i wouldn't be able to see the image.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Instances have a choice to enable a new Lemmy feature that will proxy all images through the local instance. Whilst your instance may not do that today it may do in the future. Or you could move to an instance that has this enabled. I don't know how to list instances with it enabled but it should be obvious by the URL used by images when viewed from an instance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, i've heard of it. But the only instance i know with it is lemmy.ml and, well. It's lemmy.ml. Besides, i like lemm.ee, if i have to use a VPN for it, i guess i have to.

But thank you for the advice!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

Ah, right. Media is still hosted on its instance. Didn't consider that. Bummer :/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Sometimes these blocks only happen at the DNS level. Consider switching to cloudflare (https://1.1.1.1/)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Same thing on cloudflare. That's a full national ban, alright. Unfortunately there's no way to bypass without a VPN, and VPNs are quite slow for me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Have you tried DNS over HTTPS?

What's your OS? I don't know a ton about Saudi Arabia censorship but I would start by eliminating any state provided certificate since that's how one would man in the middle https.

Honestly Tor is probably the best option. Tor can effectively bypass censorship and can even spoof traffic to hide the fact that you are using Tor.

The other option is OpenVPN on port 443

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

I use it as my default. My OS is windows 11. Saudi censorship is directly from the ISP, unless you're using a VPN or a proxy, no way around it. I tolerate using VPNs and tor, but it's still frustrating. Hence, the post on mildlyinfuriating :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

As someone from a jurisdiction with some of the most sophisticated VPN blocking technologies (Russia), consider hosting your own VPN - it can be as easy as firing up a VPS anywhere and inserting one string, like with Outline for example.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

Thanks for the advice (And my condolences for being in russia, too 😔). I've been thinking of setting up a VPN on my router, but the performance be too costly. We'll see how it goes, i guess.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

My condolences.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

texas will probably block us next.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

I wish this was a joke but these days I wouldn't put it past them. I don't think it would hold up terribly well since the US doesn't have any form of advanced censorship.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

Sorry to hear that, hopefully it will turn out all right for trans people in the US.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Use Tor if you can, and people outside of these countries can help by running Snowflake in their regular browser.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Installed Snowflake, thanks for the heads-up. Pretty simple way to try to be a little helpful. Was like two clicks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

Love tor, it's a lifesaver (literally :) ) and thank you for the tip!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

My fuckers blocked catbox.moe, most western news sites and slowed down youtube traffic, but lemmy still flies under radar thankfully. I wish you still have your ways to choose what content you want to consume.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That sounds worse, what country are you living in? Sorry to hear it. And thanks for the wishes :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The Motherland, of course. I was born into her teenage phase of 90\00s and now I see her rapidly becoming one young and salty widow (:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Oh dear, hearing anything about russia almost makes me proud to a saudi :).

Through our suffering, we are brothers 😂

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Hell yeah. We a cockroaches in their kitchen, never surrender and always persist whatever they like us or not 😉

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

How's life for you besides internet censorship, if you don't mind me asking. I'm just curious. Good luck out there!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Thank you.

For me, it's edging on absurdity and feeling like I'm the one who feel like we are going insane, but luckily for me I found my close knit circle of friends who share that feeling and I myself adapted to see everything through some lense of satire. Even though I live in it.

What still hurts tho is how my relatives and people around are so uninformed and hostile to everything ukrainian or just european, even if they talk about relatives there, and then they are just like 'why they don't like us' lol. Yeah, like, no reason. And then they order IKEA-like furniture for their flats because it's of european quality!

My sanity is saved by my partner, my friends and my still intact trust in people, even if they are dumb af.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

I appreciate you sharing and getting to read about your experience. I really wish you, your friends, and loved ones luck. Do your best to get through it and hopefully someday things will change for the better. My fingers and crossed for you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

Same here. Only instead of partner and family, it's the internet. They're mad, too. It really feels like you are the only one sane in the whole world, and people on the internet don't even feel real, like they come from a fantasy. And i get the racism, too :/ But for us it's towards Jews. Apparently the YAHOOD changed some musical cord to mind control the whole world, according to my old substitute teacher, in a completely unrelated rant.

I constantly feel like i'm at the edge of my sanity, but what could be done? Patience, i guess.

Stay safe, and i hope you can get out happily.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

geoblocked

"Geoblocking" would mean that it's blahaj who don't want saudis on their instance

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

Damn 😔

yeah that was my bad, sorry

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