Dr. Jenkem

You ok man?

Average lemmy user

Same, I’m flying through it right now. Started it on Monday and already like 3/4 of the way through it.

Last finished was Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer. Currently reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

It’s called mutually assured destruction. 2 nuclear nations likely have the firepower to wipe each other off the face of the planet.

Fuck off with your braindead terf shit

I had to look it up. Basically bad faith actors.

Gish gallop: “This Gish gallop is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm their opponent by providing an excessive number of arguments with no regard for the accuracy or strength of those arguments” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

Sealioning: “Sealioning’ is a form of trolling meant to exhaust the other debate participant with no intention of real discourse.” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Yeah true. It would require some additional work if you wanted to federate with blocked instances though. Same goes for if you wanted to migrate the federated data in the event the instance gets blocked.

Yeah I mean, deep packet inspection at that scale is certainly an impressive feat. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a game of whack-a-mole. Tor entry relays get detected? Tor devs change the handshake or use purified to reach the entry nodes: https://support.torproject.org/censorship/connecting-from-china/

A friend of mine was able to bypass the firewall there a few years ago using unlisted VPN endpoints he got from his VPN provider.

They can block most things for most uninformed users. But they’ll never be able to make it impenetrable without cutting off access to the larger internet completely.

Yeah, unless that unblocked instance resides in China then it’s probably subject to the same restriction as you. Unless they proxy the federation traffic.

Images are an issue though, as those don’t get cached by the local instance but are just links to the remote instance.

Unless China blocks all activitypub traffic, that’s a losing game of whack-a-mole.

I would say the same about the entire china firewall.

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

can I reliably access lemmy in China?

Not really, you would only be able to access instances that China hasn’t blocked.

I hate social media influencers that prey on young and alienated men. Drop the hero worship dude, Tate can’t deal with his own problems, no reason to think he’ll fix your’s.

Why are you simping for Andrew Tate? Stop idolizing social media influencers.

As far as I know, they’re readable by admins. So at least right now, if you want to use Lemmy for private communications, you have to do it manually with something like GPG. Hopefully e2e encryption on DMs gets implemented at some point.

I use this site to find communities: https://browse.feddit.de/

There’s also !newcommunities@lemmy.world