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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For those who are geoblocked by feddit.org

(I'm guessing this is the correct image)

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well apparently asia is the source of a lot of scraping traffic, and they're an European focused website, so they went with the nuclear option of blocking the entire continent and change. Never mind that as one of the bigger instances on the Threadiverse, they're degrading the user experience for an entire continent. I brought the issue up to them previously, but they didn't seem too concerned about it.

Example of degraded user experience for Asia:

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I in europe and also blocked. Was home instance, not anymore.

Edit: Before thought app broken, now i know malice. Fuck that.

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Welcome to the underside!