Use a VPN. Even if the current environment of aggressive puritan censorship weren’t happening, everyone should use one.
Here are two of the best.
Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance?
Submitted 6 hours ago by Frenchfryenjoyer@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
+1 for Mullvad.
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Will need an alternative if you need to port forward, but for general use you can’t fault them
CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
windscribe $1/month.
PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 6 hours ago
https://www.torproject.org/download/
Probably a good idea for things other than Lemmy, too, the way that things are going.
Frenchfryenjoyer@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
thx!
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 2 hours ago
Theoretically if you would host your own Lemmy/PieFed server then you would be able to access everything (as long as you host it outside of the UK I guess). And then you could keep being moderator on those communities with your new account on your own instance.
That only helps you out though, if the communities were UK specific ones and other people from the UK meet to participate then there is no other way than moving them to a UK friendly instance.
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Tunnelbear has a free 2GB a month one - not enough for a lot of use probably, but an easy to test if a paid VPN will do what you need.
drmoose@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
If you want to be part of a bot net sure.
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 58 minutes ago
I've not had any issues with them. It's a pretty user friendly VPN app, and having a small allowance you can test it with before buying is pretty handy. Most other VPNs you have to pay up before you can test them AFAIK.
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 5 hours ago
What happened? Is it the instances fault or UK's?
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
UK is implementing law for age verification on nsfw content, that’s the jist of it.
Some services are choosing to simply not serve the UK rather than deal with the faff and/or the privacy concerns. lemmy.zip where I am from is one of them.
Blame lies squarely with the UK gov & Online Safety Act. It’s a shit law made to pander to the ‘think of the children’ types that are incapable of parenting, also coming with the bonus of grift and doxxing concerns by companies that move in to provide the service.
I don’t blame any site operator that chooses to simply not play. VPN goes on, normal service resumes.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
It’s also several hundred pages long. Fair few web forums are closing because of it if they are UK hosted too.
It would be interesting to get a legal opinion on what about it actually impacts lemmy instances tbh. Obviously one option is to go “lol fuck off” if the UK complain and you are not in the UK.
juliorapido@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
“It’s a shit law made to pander to the *‘think of the children’* types that are incapable of parenting”
This.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
The EU is also adopting similar regulations.
PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 5 hours ago
The UK enacted age verification, the instance said fuck that. So, more or less, the UK's fault.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
UK, this is hitting basically all websites. Any site hosting adult content has to verify user ages for anyone in the UK, and instead of doing that many smaller sites are just geoblocking the UK. Easy to get around with a VPN, still absurd it’s happening.
herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 42 minutes ago
just get a vpn: mullvad.net