1308 points rickybule | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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evulhotdog ◴[28 Aug 25 18:47 UTC] No.45055592[source]▶

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There 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.

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Ray20 ◴[28 Aug 25 19:24 UTC] No.45056010[source]▶

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