If Russia can block it, it’s not distributed…
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Russia appears to block social media platform Bluesky amid wider internet restrictions
Russian digital rights organization RKS Global told Recorded Future News that Bluesky had been added to the registry of banned websites maintained by Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor.Daryna Antoniuk (The Record)
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gabboman the wafrn dev
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in reply to gabboman the wafrn dev • • •@gabboman I said “if.. then”, not “if and only if”
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Why is implication truth table defined this way?
Stack OverflowEvan Prodromou
in reply to Ben Pate 🤘🏻 • • •this is interesting.
Is there a *Sky in Russia, like Eurosky, Gander, Blacksky or Northsky? (I should know what these are called. I think it's more than a PDS, but maybe that's the right word.)
Trot-sky would be a sick name, but I don't think the pun would translate well.
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •ActivityPub might work well in this case, but also badly. For example, if the Russian government blocked mastodon.social, the server-to-server data works on the same protocol and port number as the end-user interface and API.
But on the plus side, there are 40,000 other servers, so you'd still could stay connected to a big chunk of the Fediverse.
Evan Prodromou
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True… We are slowly centralizing.
I believe real data portability would address this. LOLA portability would even enable “hot backup” servers in cases where your primary server goes down.
And, I think Mastodon is making some progress on their signup page that will reverse this trend.
Look at me doing all this comms for Mastodon… Andy is going to owe me a beer 🍺
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So what are all the possible ways they can block things, I wonder now. Not an expert. Couldn't they simply block all of #fediverse based on content-type or other aspects of #ActivityPub network communication? Deep msg inspection, etc. They want to drag their population over to that state-controlled platform I forgot the name of.
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PS. I address 'points/risks of centralization' in my social experience piece and call-for-reflection on fedi's future, see..
social.coop/@smallcircles/1163…
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Evan Prodromou
in reply to 🫧 socialcoding.. • • •@smallcircles I studied this last year, and @mallory worked on RFC 9505.
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I think the hardware requirements for doing deep packet stuff are hard but not impossible. Don't forget, we use HTTPS.
If it were me, I'd download a list of the top 1000 fediverse servers from fedidb and block their DNS names and IP addresses. That'd probably cover 99% of user accounts.
RFC 9505: A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques
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Great that that exists at #IETF! Thanks.
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Matthew Exon
in reply to Ben Pate 🤘🏻 • • •The lesson from China is that you don't have to block a site with no leaks. You make a service unreliable or complicated to access, and provide a local alternative that does 90% of what people want. People drift towards the easy option, and network effects lock them in.
Piercing the Chinese firewall is why I started experimenting with Friendica in 2011. Talking to people on the ground quickly made me realise how naïve that was. Whatever goals AP has, smuggling news into or out of totalitarian regimes is not one you should invest in.
abeorch
in reply to Matthew Exon • •Very true. Your points work for why people use commerical social media networks in europe and america as well. Its easy and the tradeoffs arent immediately obvious..
Making a solution easy to use but not centralised is difficult...but does seem to.be getting easier
Having said that .. im interested in how activitypub could make blocking external media more costly for those that want to do it.
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