They aren't Russians, they moved yesterday...

Dang it, I trusted you gwindor

There are no russians here. Telegram is blocked in Russia. ?

yep not a soul =)

So, when fedo breaks and says oops, where do these error messages go?

This will either go down as giant shitshow and riot from the people as russia blocks all aws/google services and fails or as example how to force google/aws into submission.

I hope its the former.

I wish telegram started adding a local, p2p mode for restricted states

wow, it really happened

My other Russian contacts aren’t techies and they’re totally unbothered.

U can give them a hand and provide with socks5 proxy service. Its activation in tg client is a piece of cake for anyone

For the last 24 hours Telegram has been under a ban by internet providers in Russia. The reason is our refusal to provide encryption keys to Russian security agencies. For us, this was an easy decision. We promised our users 100% privacy and would rather cease to exist than violate this promise. Despite the ban, we haven’t seen a significant drop in user engagement so far, since Russians tend to bypass the ban with VPNs and proxies. We also have been relying on third-party cloud services to remain partly available for our users there. Thank you for your support and loyalty, Russian users of Telegram. Thank you, Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft – for not taking part in political censorship. Russia accounts for ~7% of the Telegram user base, and even if we lose that entire market, Telegram’s organic growth in other regions will compensate for this loss within a couple of months. However, it is important for me personally to make sure we do everything we can for our Russian users. To support internet freedoms in Russia and elsewhere I started giving out bitcoin grants to individuals and companies who run socks5 proxies and VPN. I am happy to donate millions of dollars this year to this cause, and hope that other people will follow. I called this Digital Resistance – a decentralized movement standing for digital freedoms and progress globally.

That is simply awesome ?

The same idea i'd love to be used for social networks and cloud providers (many decentralized nodes)

This guy is such a badass.

The latter part i can easily offer myself already, with my claut being open to lots of people

The same idea i'd love to be used for social networks and cloud providers (many decentralized nodes)

Is mastadon decentralised enough?

Telegram app has some mechanism to detect unavailable ips, so it can use another one as soon as current ip get blocked

Crap, my cover is blown. :(

Guess what, the Russian Bots actually exist. (/s) ?

That's why Telegram works okay without proxy

except web version

Our govt spies on users the old school way by literally hiring spies to infiltrate WhatsApp groups

Russian government need to ban 0.0.0.0/0 subnet to completely block Telegram.

Is mastadon decentralised enough?

Mastodon is an amusing little platform.

Russian government need to ban 0.0.0.0/0 subnet to completely block Telegram.

Ipv6 though.

Russian government need to ban 0.0.0.0/0 subnet to completely block Telegram.

That should be fun for the economy

Is mastadon decentralised enough?

mastodon and/or diaspora

Ipv6 though.

Most of russian providers don't support IPv6.

Most of russian providers don't support IPv6.

I know, but still.

GNU Social is love

mastodon and/or diaspora

Problem is that no one uses it.

Most of russian providers don't support IPv6.

it's time to use it finally

Won't completely block Telegram, as you say. :)

Problem is that no one uses it.

As of March 2014, there are more than 1 million Diaspora accounts

Problem is that no one uses it.

This is the problem with every decentralised social media site

There's not much benefit to using them for most people.

Problem is that no one uses it.

The global use is rising fast, having about 766,500 users as of August 1, 2017,[4] and rising to 1 million users on December 1st 2017. (Mastodon)

No one wants to use a subpar service ?‍♂️

it's time to use it finally

They have too old hardware.

They don't use them because noone is there and noone is there because they don't use them. 22.

Though I applaud these platforms for the work they've done.

The global use is rising fast, having about 766,500 users as of August 1, 2017,[4] and rising to 1 million users on December 1st 2017. (Mastodon)

Active accounts is what matters. I have an account too. I've never used it.

Though I applaud these platforms for the work they've done.

And the users that do use em have a fantastic time.

Which is mostly techies.

Which is perfect for techies.

Yeah, it's got kinda of a hacky feel

Pretty neat. I might try it again someday.

Diaspora has the most users iirc

Someone should tell Musk to use Mastodon now he's deleted his Facebook

Oh damn i should setup both mastodon and diaspora on my server sometime.

fedora cinnamon 28 beta is very good

fedora cinnamon 28 beta is very good

Did you mean fedora is very good

I talked about the spin cinnamon that is in beta

Someone should tell Musk to use Mastodon now he's deleted his Facebook

Lol, I'm sure his response would be amusing.

Someone should tell Musk to use Mastodon now he's deleted his Facebook

"elon@musk.space"

Does he reply all mails like Stallman?

Well, I am still here, online, using Telegram.

VPN?

VPN?

Proxy.

Proxy.

Oh Aights...

I'm in Russia and here too. But without any proxy/VPN

Ping

Pong

What's cheers in Russian?

Mastodon just doesn't feel like a good alternative to Twitter for me because it just creates multiple points of failure.

ERROR: S client not available

Mastodon is an amusing little platform.

https://social.zxq.co/objects/fa781dd4-16b0-48e1-b69f-e78b4aa10252

https://social.zxq.co/objects/fa781dd4-16b0-48e1-b69f-e78b4aa10252

Lol, and just like GNU/Linux, no one cares. :3

FYI my mastdon is @Basix@mastodon.technology

Coming back to the Telegram topic, I think Putin would not want to appear weak and I don't think he will relent to protest about internet freedom. Also, he knows that Google, Amazon and Microsoft will soon give in to continue working in Russia.

There are no russians here. Telegram is blocked in Russia. ?

You're from there too, right? Ping!

Coming back to the Telegram topic, I think Putin would not want to appear weak and I don't think he will relent to protest about internet freedom. Also, he knows that Google, Amazon and Microsoft will soon give in to continue working in Russia.

There's only so far he can go with strong arming

FYI my mastdon is @Basix@mastodon.technology

So, I'm curious, let's say I sign up on an instance with my username. Can someone else on another instance still use the same name?

So, I'm curious, let's say I sign up on an instance with my username. Can someone else on another instance still use the same name?

Yes

So, I'm curious, let's say I sign up on an instance with my username. Can someone else on another instance still use the same name?

Yes for diaspora no for Mastodon [citation needed]

That right there is an immediate blocker for me.

Yes for diaspora no for Mastodon [citation needed]

Yes for mastdon too

Yes for diaspora no for Mastodon [citation needed]

mastodon should let you use username at instance so its meme at loltld and meme at loltwotld

You're from there too, right? Ping!

No. I'm from NL.

I'm in Russia and here too. But without any proxy/VPN

I heard that Telegram is using floating IPs to bypass the block. That's why he banned AWS and other cloud services.

No. I'm from NL.

Ohhh

mastodon should let you use username at instance so its meme at loltld and meme at loltwotld

Aah

?

Pong

ping

ping

Bong

RIP Gwindor

So much swag

Please don't spam the group with one character messages.

Where did you get that bag?

Please don't spam the group with one character messages.

Its a reddit meme

Where did you get that bag?

This was given to registered attendees for the Fedora Flock conference in 2015 in Rochester, NY.

Its a reddit meme

Yes, but it's also a *bzzt bzzt* too. ?

Wew. I want that bottle!