Admin team of LGBTQIA.Social Mastodon instance received abuse email from Russian censorship agency, where they demanded to remove an account. The account in question represented a small group that ran a collaborative blog for LGBTQIA youth and adults in Russia.

Shortly after refusal to comply with agency's demands, the instance was blocked and is now unreachable from Russia.

All previous blocks of Fediverse instaces in Russia were related to hosting CSAM.

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 32 points 7 months ago (13 children)

But blocking the instance at the DNS level does not stop the content from reaching other Russian instances, right? They would have to basically track every server that is federating with them and block like this.

[–] CyberTailor@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Instances hosted in Russia can’t federate with lgbtqia.space anymore.

[–] Damage@slrpnk.net 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If it's a DNS block I guess Russian instances just need to direct the domain to the IP address in their hosts file

[–] CyberTailor@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

It's always IP + DNS + Deep Packet Inspection. To access blocked websites, you have to use some sort of proxying.

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