this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
20 points (95.5% liked)

Haupteingang

715 readers
2 users here now

Die Standard-Community von feddit.org

In dieser Community geht es um:

Was nicht Zweck dieser Community ist:

Regeln:

The standard community of feddit.org

This community is for:

What is not the purpose of this community:

Rules:

founded 10 months ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
20
IP block? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
30 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Hi, I am able to access feddit.org from my wifi, but connecting via my mobile data fails. Is feddit.org doing geoblocking or blocking certain IP ranges? It's negatively impacting the lemmy experience for me hugely, as a lot of images in my feed do not load, and I imagine it's affecting others as well.

Location: Malaysia

top 30 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

hello,

we're currently working on migrating to new infrastructure (same hardware, new deployment setup) that will allow us to separate IP blocks for feddit.org from those used by the rest of the fediverse foundation.

we currently have certain bad reputation and some asian networks blocked due to a large amount of malicious traffic, which is a major problem for other fediverse foundation services, partially resulting in service outages before these blocks were implemented.

unfortunately this will still take some time for the migration to be completed.

if you are being blocked while using a residential or mobile internet connection outside of asia or a static non-VPN IP please let us know your IP and we will review your individual case. you can send us an email to admin @ domain of this instance or send a lemmy pm to @[email protected] or me and we'll forward this internally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thanks! I don't think there's much that can be done as my Asian mobile IP is dynamic. Hopefully the migration happens soon and resolves the issue. Is there an expected timeline?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

no specific timeline currently unfortunately, it depends on when we have spare time to progress with this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's unfortunate, given how many people this is affecting. Thanks for the info.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I noticed this as well. It is quite annoying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Good to know it's not just my random IP. What's your general location? I added mine to OP

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

See this post here: https://feddit.org/post/9443258?scrollToComments=true

Fediverse Foundation / Feddit is blocking most asian IP ranges due to too much bad traffic. Since the fediverse is, well, federated, just go to another instance and subscribe to the communities here from there

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not about subscribing to communities, though. Any pictures hosted on their servers will fail to load, leading to a negative experience of lemmy for anybody in the affected region. They're basically impacting how 30% of the world experiences lemmy, for the worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Some places block UK IPs due to some misguided law far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

My IPs have no relation to the UK though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Would be very strange since I can access it from my VPN just fine. Why block mobile but allow VPNs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's the location of your mobile and VPN exit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Both Germany.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's weird, considering the instance is hosted in Germany

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I can't access feddit.org from Voyager app. The website loads fine but it's as if only the feddit.org instance is blocked from Voyager. I'm in USA.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That sounds like a different issue you may need to dig into

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Like what? If you have an idea... There's been other people posting about the same thing with voyager, but the issue hasn't been fixed. It's been about a month so far.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, my issue was due to feddit.org geoblocking my IP. Yours seems to be a different cause as you can view the website, which means your IP is not being blocked (assuming you're using the same IP for both). I don't have a guess what's causing your issue, but it doesn't seem to be the same root cause as mine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it is due to bad traffic from Asian IPs. The number of IPs that want to access German speaking feddit.org from Malaysia against malicious IPs are in such a high ratio that this is the easiest way for protection. However, you should be able to access feddit.org through any other instance. So if you stay in Malaysia, just use sh.itjust.works, lemm.ee or something similar to browse feddit!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

As you'll note, I AM using a SJW account. That does not prevent me from being impacted. Images are not copied to federated servers. Feddit.org is the default image host for their users, but this means that any user in Asia is unable to view the images they upload. This leads to significant parts of the feed showing 'failed to load image' placeholders.

I also question the wisdom of a decision that makes it impossible to host any instance in Asia. Are we just preemptively deciding Asians should never be allowed to host an instance? Not to mention screwing over the existing instances hosted in Asia.

I understand the stated reasoning behind the decision, but I'm here to inform the admins that this is having unintended (I hope) side effects that will impact the entire fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

SJW

Read this as Social Justice Warrior, lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I see your point, I was just reciting the reasons fron the German post someone else linked. I didn't know about the images, and that is indeed a problem. Maybe one of the feddit.org Admins can give us some more info on this?

Pinging @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I am also affected by this here in Thailand and seeing the same Problems with media hosted by feddit.org not loading, even when accessing a post from another instance. Since then i had to create this alternative account, as it was not feasible to use a vpn constantly.

posted here about 1 month ago and @surprised_[email protected] was so kind to check into it. https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/31061968

While its inconvenient, i can understand why the geoblocking was done in the first place as an easy solution. Here in Thailand we are left with only 2 Big Telco Providers, both as far as i know, using CGNAT and not IPv6. So at no point my connection will be from an IP Range that is not suspicious.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They're supporting China's troll farm efforts so fuckem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You do know asia is more than just China, yes? And most of China's neighbours are not on good terms with them due to their aggressive expansionism.

Edit: Wait, which 'them' are you referring to?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

feddit.org admins are banning people who warn against the CCP troll farms using their instance to push propaganda

Basically any instance that fails to defederate from the tankie triad is being used right now by literal Chinese troll farm operations to fight their way back onto the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

feddit.org admins are banning people who warn against the CCP troll farms using their instance to push propaganda

That's very much doubtful, burningturtle at least is not very fond of them to say the least

Basically any instance that fails to defederate from the tankie triad is being used right now by literal Chinese troll farm operations to fight their way back onto the fediverse.

But if you have evidence of this, I'd love to see it, it would help with my ongoing efforts against the Tankie Triad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

My account was banned today for calling out accounts from a CCP troll farm.