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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 blocked blahaj.zone. Actually beyond parodyπŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ 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 (protonvpn.com is also blocked in saudi, jfc) just to see it. Fuck this place. πŸ™„

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

It's so over guys, MBS said no more 196 πŸ˜”

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 16 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago) (1 children)

Well its Saudi Arabia after all. It isn't exactly known for being all that high on the freedom index. I'm sure you realize that though.

From a technical level there are ways to bypass censorship. The thing to keep in mind is that Saudi Arabia doesn't have any rights for citizens. The law can be enforced arbitrarily and you could just disappear one day. If you are looking for technical information on avoiding censorship I can try to help.

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 2 points 13 minutes ago

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 :/

[–] ech@lemm.ee 6 points 1 hour 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.

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 5 points 1 hour 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.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 3 points 36 minutes 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.

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 2 points 31 minutes 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!

[–] ech@lemm.ee 3 points 55 minutes ago

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

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 56 minutes 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.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 14 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

texas will probably block us next.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 minutes ago

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.

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 5 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 23 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

geoblocked

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

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 18 points 3 hours ago

Damn πŸ˜”

yeah that was my bad, sorry

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 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.

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 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 (:

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

Through our suffering, we are brothers πŸ˜‚

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 3 points 56 minutes 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!

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 39 minutes ago (1 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.

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 1 points 5 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago)

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.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Saudi would take a hacksaw to them if they could

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 8 points 3 hours ago

MBS's wet dream every night.

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 77 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

It sucks, but it's also one positive thing about the Fediverse - if Lemmy was a central platform, it would be completely gone for you now.

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 36 points 5 hours ago (11 children)

Yeah, thank god. I'm more baffled on why fucking saudi arabia would care about a tiny trans-ran instance on a niche software. must've been a slow day there, i guess.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 45 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

youre kidding right. one of the most oppressive shitty, religion-based garbage of a country that subjugates 50% of its population and you wonder why its acting shitty?

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