1308 points rickybule | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.627s | source

Indonesia is currently in chaos. Earlier today, the government blocked access to Twitter & Discord knowing news spread mainly through those channels. Usually we can use Cloudflare's WARP to avoid it, but just today they blocked the access as well. What alternative should we use?

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jszymborski ◴[28 Aug 25 16:59 UTC] No.45054454[source]▶

>>45054260 (OP) #

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/

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barbazoo ◴[28 Aug 25 18:25 UTC] No.45055329[source]▶

>>45054454 #

Wouldn't it be easy to block the individual servers, e.g. https://mastodon.social?

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1. kragen ◴[28 Aug 25 18:56 UTC] No.45055689[source]▶

>>45055329 #

Sure, 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.

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2. barbazoo ◴[31 Aug 25 20:14 UTC] No.45086655[source]▶

>>45055689 (TP) #

That’s the context I was missing I think.

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