mastodon.social isn't blocked in China! No VPN needed- sweeeeeeet:dancers:
@SexyCyborg fyi before you pick an instance (or start telling folks): mastodon|social does a little censorship of its own. It blocks some other instances. That's why me and @sonya and others are on Maly.io. It's the same as Mastodon|social but without any censorship
@sonya @SexyCyborg but I'm super happy you're here! this model is perfect for China. The federated nature of it will make your great firewall censors work pretty hard lol
@five ya'll need to stop telling the world about our nice little hidey hole :)
@five @SexyCyborg @sonya which instances does it block?
@aelkus not sure if there's a list published, which is also kinda the problem. I wish they were more straightforward about it. I know of sealion.club and I think shitposters.club @sonya @SexyCyborg
@five @SexyCyborg @sonya Will keep that in mind. A bit too lazy at present to switch given that I've already set up my virtual tent here but not keen on more of Twitter's dysfunctional governance policies. Thx for heads-up.
@aelkus @five @SexyCyborg also community.highlandarrow.com, but those are all the blocked ones I know of

@sonya @SexyCyborg @aelkus @five
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Shitposters Club and sea lion we cant see on here.

Although moonman who maintains sealion and shitposters comes and visits this instance on occasion.
You can see the EFF and other accounts/ people at quitter.no(Gnu Social) and Highland arrow as well.
We might not see some of the nodes on the wider federations in the GNU social and Diaspora federations(I don't think we see any of the Diaspora Nodes) and that they are on though.

@sonya @SexyCyborg @aelkus @five
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Links below are dynamic listings of all the known nodes in each federation:

The Mastodon system:
instances.mastodon.xyz/

The Gnu Social System:
http://www.fediverse.org/

The Diaspora System:
https://the-federation.info/nodes

@five @sonya Whoops! Already tweted but grabbed the same username at maly.io. Thanks for the heads up!
@SexyCyborg I'm hella excited that this could actually take off over there @sonya
@five @sonya It really depends. Reddit never got blocked same with Imgur. The problem is you need a special license to setup a server here though. Maybe a Pi image?
@SexyCyborg is Twitter blocked, your earlier post made me assume yes @sonya
@five @sonya yes, twitter and facebook are blocked
@mala blocking instances full of nazis and other right wing trash isn't 'censorship,' it's keeping your house from filling with sewage.
@emceeaich retwoots are not endorsements. on the contrary, i disagree with everyone i'm just too nice to say so.
@five @SexyCyborg @sonya getting 404 when I try to register there. At malay.io/auth after entering registration info
@GoatPope @SexyCyborg @five I think the admin may have turned off new signups to mitigate server overload :(
@five @SexyCyborg @sonya what sort of censorship are the mastodon.social folks doing?
@GoatPope @SexyCyborg @five they block other instances that don't conform to their content policies — sealion.club, shitposter.club, community.highlandarrow.com, probably a couple of others too