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Because lemmy.ml federates with the broader Lemmyverse. So if instances like .world is blocked, that same content is visible on .ml so it's blocked too.
Defederate from us and we might have a chance.
As of this post, Lemmy.world is not blocked in China. Neither is piefed.social.
But lemmy.ml is blocked in China.
What is your point?
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lemmy.ml was not blocked because of lemmy.world. Or other federated instances, as far as I can tell through testing a few.
.ml was blocked because the .ml domain was blocked due to it being a free domain mostly used for spam (although I'm sure some groups/sites have petitioned and had their non spam sites unblocked). Also things being blocked by the firewall doesn't really mean much on a personal level when we all have a VPN. You clearly don't understand the purpose of the firewall.
My question is why bring it up in the first place?
Liberals love this little factoid because it makes China seem “authoritarian” and therefore “bad” when in reality you can just use a VPN and do whatever you want. it’s (one of the ways) also how I get free stuff in the USA and I hate computers you just gotta do a tiny tiny bit of research but I’ve seen in China it’s like an open secret you could prob just get some stranger to tell you how
Yep, or they think it's ironic that a pro-China instance is blocked in China. The problem is the Mali domain, not an ideological difference.
Interesting, TIL.