President Emmanuel Macron's government faced a backlash Wednesday after the centrist leader called for powers to "cut off" social media in case of widespread violence like riots over the past week.
I’m new to Lemmy and how it works so please correct me if I’m misinterpreting how Lemmy works.
In this example, if i spin up lemmy.fyi in France and the France government blocked lemmy.world. Doesn’t that mean that my instance (lemmy.fyi) would lose access to communities and posts on lemmy.world? OR would that mean instead of going directly to lemmy.world i would need to find an alternate route to get to that information? such as my instance would goto lemmy.org which then picks up the data from lemmy.world then come back to my instance?
From my understanding (and someone correct me if I’m wrong) if France were to block all traffic from lemmy.world then yes it would break federation between your instance and lemmy.world. Essentially every time someone posts to lemmy.world a push is sent out to all the instances that are federated with it containing the new information. If that push was blocked by France then your instance wouldn’t receive it and would be out of sync.
You could manually go to another instance and read content that it had synced from lemmy.world, but you wouldn’t be able to get your instance to pull data through them bypassing this block. It’s also important to know that one instance doesn’t get a full copy of the content hosted on another instance, only the communities that users are subscribed to. So if you spun up your own instance in France and only subscribed to one community on lemmy.world, then you’d only get updates for that one community hosted on your server.
I was more thinking that if France were to be cut off from the rest of the internet, many lemmy instances could be brought up and communicate with one another.
I’m new to Lemmy and how it works so please correct me if I’m misinterpreting how Lemmy works. In this example, if i spin up lemmy.fyi in France and the France government blocked lemmy.world. Doesn’t that mean that my instance (lemmy.fyi) would lose access to communities and posts on lemmy.world? OR would that mean instead of going directly to lemmy.world i would need to find an alternate route to get to that information? such as my instance would goto lemmy.org which then picks up the data from lemmy.world then come back to my instance?
I am not sure what would happen in that instance, thou I guess it would be good to have server outside their jurisdiction (if that is legal).
Technically thay can easily block all federation domains, but question is legality of doing it without due process.
But someone talking about blocking communication between people does not care about legality.
From my understanding (and someone correct me if I’m wrong) if France were to block all traffic from lemmy.world then yes it would break federation between your instance and lemmy.world. Essentially every time someone posts to lemmy.world a push is sent out to all the instances that are federated with it containing the new information. If that push was blocked by France then your instance wouldn’t receive it and would be out of sync.
You could manually go to another instance and read content that it had synced from lemmy.world, but you wouldn’t be able to get your instance to pull data through them bypassing this block. It’s also important to know that one instance doesn’t get a full copy of the content hosted on another instance, only the communities that users are subscribed to. So if you spun up your own instance in France and only subscribed to one community on lemmy.world, then you’d only get updates for that one community hosted on your server.
I was more thinking that if France were to be cut off from the rest of the internet, many lemmy instances could be brought up and communicate with one another.