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Mastodon is not easy for regimes to completely block, and most instances won't block you for using Tor. Mastodon saw a huge migration from Brazil when X was blo
by jszymborski 1y ago
Mastodon is not easy for regimes to completely block, and most instances won't block you for using Tor. Mastodon saw a huge migration from Brazil when X was blocked there.
https://joinmastodon.org/ https://joinmastodon.org/
- barbazoo 1y agoWouldn't it be easy to block the individual servers, e.g. https://mastodon.social https://mastodon.social?
- evulhotdog 1y agoThere are many instances of Mastodon, and due to its federated nature, you can use any of them to access it, and even host your own.
- Ray20 1y agoWhat's stopping them from just blocking them all and continuing to block new ones?
- evulhotdog 1y agoNothing is stopping them, but like most things in blocking free speech, it’s a game of cat and mouse.
- mayneack 1y agoThe long tail is very long
- beeflet 1y agoIt's not that long. You could probably these servers with an automated process.
- kragen 1y agoSure, but if you have an account on a different server, you can still see things posted on mastodon.social if you have followed someone there.
- barbazoo 1y agoThat’s the context I was missing I think.
- int_19h 1y agoIt would be easy to block on protocol level. Countries that block VPNs usually progress to that level pretty fast once they discover that simple IP blocks don't work.
- jszymborski 1y agoThe traffic looks like any other web page.
- int_19h 1y agoI doubt that is the case once you do statistical analysis of it. Advanced VPN tunneling protocols, for example, have to take a lot of special measures to conceal their nature from China's and Russia's deep packet inspecting firewalls.