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Das_Fossil@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Its totaly easy:

Ban the apps
Block major instances
Jail some instance admins who doesn’t shut down (and make a show out of it)

No, you will not get the hobby revolutionary this way who really wants to “fight the man”, but you surely will scare away the nepalese version of the average joe and with this effectively killing the networks there for main stream adoption.

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shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Are there any instance administrators in Nepal to jail?

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- Das_Fossil@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Well… we will see
  
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EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Not familiar with the other examples, but Lemmy doesn’t need an app. Can get to it via browser. Maybe the others need one?

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- Das_Fossil@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Websites you can block via DNS - yes, i know that this can also be fairly easy circumvented - but the folks who know this are NOT the target audience for state action like that.
  
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  - EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Oh, yeah I know that sites can be blocked easily enough. My comment was more about whether specific apps are needed. For example, I rarely put apps for specific websites on my phone and instead just use the browser. Cuts way down on ads and other bullshit.
    
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