I read the post and understood the problem. Then I read Dan’s reply. And he’s fixing it. In fact, he’s fixing it in the exact way the blog post says it should be fixed, “… but those filters should be manually triggered and always removable.”

Here’s Dan’s reply:

“… I hear the community: you want text-only posts. We are going to build this as an opt-in feature. If you want microblogging, turn it on. If you prefer the classic media-only experience, nothing changes.”

Why was this blog post even written then? Now it’s seeming to be personal.

my-sunshine.video is one with no restrictions and has open registration. Don’t know about others.

Yes, it claims to proxy the traffic, but then you have to connect to the fedibuzz relay server.

It sounded from the post that there was an attempt to directly connect to a Mastodon server through the relay connection, which won’t work.

A relay, as in the Mastodon relay feature? As in Administration->Relays? If so, does mastodonapp.uk have an active relay? It can’t be used to connect to just any Mastodon server. It has to connect to a special relay server.

Not sure whether this is helpful.

Depends on the application for me. For Mastodon, I want to allow 12K character posts, more than 4 poll question choices, and custom themes. Can’t do it with Docker containers. For Peertube, Mobilizon, and Peertube, I use Docker containers.

Wow! Well done!!

Doesn’t work that way. States agree to enforce each other’s civil orders

On feddit.online I block both the UK and France in addition to Mississippi. However, I believe in a future upgrade, PieFed can be configured to block people from specific countries from accessing NSFW and NSFL communities (feddit.online doesn’t allow NSFL communities). When that upgrade happens, I will open it again to the UK and France but keep it closed for Mississippi.

Why is this post NSFW???

I’m exhausted with all this. And it’s not my fight. The fight belongs to the people of Mississippi. They elected their “leaders.”

Until I know for sure that I am not on the hook to pay a $10K penalty for each person on my servers, I’ve blocked all Mississippi IP addresses from logging in and registering on my Mastodon, Piefed, and Friendica servers.

Wyoming will probably be next.

They can notify the hosting company that the server is violating UK law, the registrars, and payment services. This is the fear for sites not hosted in the UK. There are inter-country agreements to support civil actions.

Just mentioning that Mozilla VPN uses Mullvad, and with their Firefox extension you can exclude individual websites from VPN protection or set preferred server locations for specific sites. So you can stay on a UK server for UK banking sites but switch to a different country server for a social site.

Only works on Windows for now. But maybe useful given this situation.

Yes, the U.S. and the U.K. have cooperation agreements for Civil actions.

A public enforcement action by Ofcom could make it difficult because payment processors can refuse to work with the site owner, domain registrars could be pressured to suspend the domain, and hosting providers might refuse to provide services.

Who needs this drama?

Piefed.social isn’t as affected because they restrict the NSFW communities. Feddit.online doesn’t have the restriction, so it’s more exposed.

The fear is a complaint being made to Digital Ocean that a server they host is violating UK law. It would be much easier for DO to remove the server than to take any other action.

The Mozilla VPN with their Firefox extension (not yet on Linux), for example, lets you change the VPN server’s country based on the domain you connect to and even bypass the VPN for certain domains. So, I believe it can be configured to select a U.S. VPN server, for example, when visiting a U.S. social site, but stay on the native connection when accessing BBC services. It uses Mullvad as the provider, actually, which is high quality. They can’t be the only one.

The Internet always seems to find ways to bypass blocks.

Likely, then, that lemmy.world has the same restriction.

I think it depends on the Piefed instance; it’s up to the Admin.

It should work on, for example, feddit.online. If not, something is broken.

My understanding is that your one PR broke logins, and it took maybe 5 days for someone else to fix the code? Maybe your changes that were kicked away just weren’t so good after all, or trusted?

This is all sour grapes.

I’ve read your interaction with him, and, frankly, if I were moderating a community where you incessantly carried on over insignificant details, continuing to question things after you got your answer (sea lioning), insisting on focusing on nothing, and never ever stopping, I’d block you too, and I’ve only blocked 2 people in my entire life as a mod.

Now you’re in here trying to malign him, for revenge, for shutting you down so he could get work done and he can focus on important work instead of debating you over never-ending trivial topics.

He is the opposite of the image you are trying to give him.