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
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!
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.
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 @BurningTurtle@feddit.org @letsu@feddit.org @surprised_pikachu@feddit.org @admin@feddit.org
Read this as Social Justice Warrior, lol.
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_pikachu@feddit.org 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.