The 502 error with Lemmy.ml due to connecting with IPv6. Once I disabled that on my computer, everything loaded. See https://lemmy.world/post/120796
Something must have happened during the upgrade yesterday and DNS isn’t pointing correctly. Hopefully it is fixed soon.
Well, I am able to visit the site now
I’m not sure that’s the case. Any country that blocks your end-user access to that server would also be blocking your local servers’ access to it too, after all its all just http traffic to the firewall.
I suspect that any differences in content you’re seeing between servers at the moment are down to the massive load that they’re under. Generally the federation functionality seems to be the most processor-intensive and fragile part of the setup.
Are you sure? If the government here in NZ blocks Lemmygrad (IIRC hosted in Switzerland) would that stop my home instance (Beehaw which I think is hosted in the USA) from being able to access Lemmygrad posts?
No, it wouldn’t. The Beehaw server is located in the United States. External communities aren’t retrieved via your machine, but via their server.
It will be interesting to see how quickly the whole fediverse gets blocked by strict countries now…
This will be nearly impossible. Popular instances can be blocked but someone can simply create a new small one each time. It is eternal cat and mouse. Censorship by the country where it is hosted however will be effective for that instance but no other.
Shhhh don’t tell them that!!
