Lemmy.ml, the most popular instance fo Lemmy out there, is not accessible in my country unless I use a VPN. But, I can subscribe to any community that exists on lemmy.ml from here and even post on those communities from this account.

I love this aspect of Lemmy.

  • Skelectus@suppo.fi
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    2 years ago

    404 is still a server response, so I imagine no response at all would be the way to go.

    • Pekka@feddit.nl
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      Yea true, so you would just get a timeout (or an error from the DNS server that the domain does not exist if you use a ‘government approved’ DNS server.

      • cnnrduncan@beehaw.org
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        2 years ago

        A lot of censorship-happy governments have specific message that show up when a page is blocked telling you quite explicitly that the page you’re trying to access is banned.

        • 🇺🇦 seirim @lemmy.pro
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          In contrast, in China you just get the browser’s default error page like you typed in a url wrong to a page that doesn’t exist, in essence they give you no error or indication info at all, just blank.

      • joyjoy@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        You’ll likely get a permanent redirect to some government site telling you access is denied. The same thing happens on a corporate or school network that blocked a domain.