How easily can Lemmy be censored? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Owell1984@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Being an old grandpa not that adept at tech, I don't know how Lemmy works. I mean, I know it's decentralized and it's supposed to be better than reddit, but still, how vulnerable is this platform from censors looking to block anything in here?

Are we invincible like those thepiratebay.org instances which jump up the more you try to censor them or are we basically like reddit. In other words, can I reliably access lemmy in China?

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[-] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you sure? There are multiple sites where you can check if a site is blocked in china. I've put a few lemmy instances in the first 3 sites i found and they all claim they're accessible. I'm not sure how 'reliable' that would be, but seems as of now they aren't censored.

[-] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I mean in the end it’s a server somewhere like any other website. If your decide to block all traffic that goes to that site, yiu blocked it. The thing with lemmy is just that it’s decentralized and technically you could just another instance and acces the cache and interact ther from what I understand.

So if if China works with a Blocklist and not an Allowlist, instances might go up faster than they can block them?

[-] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, exactly. On the other hand the list of lemmy instances is public. And we even have websites that help new users to find a suitable one from the list of all known instances.

I bet a censor like china has people or program(mer)s to to go through such a list and block each and every known instance. I'm not an expert on china. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody told me they're already doing it like that for other federated or distributed platforms.

[-] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I guess my point is that China could block Lemmy instances.

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