I enjoyed the fuck out of the beta/demo thing, can’t wait for the release

Well, thats incredibly worrying. Thanks for the info.

Runs on one of these: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax42/

Yeah its fine, by geoblocking the UK traffic we’re outside of the scope of the OSA. While it is admittedly an odd position to be in, there’s nothing inherently wrong with it.

Weve had Alice banned for like a year unfortunately, which is why you won’t see much/any activity, especially if that account is a mod in the community.

Nope, should be all good with HC, for example https://lemmy.zip/u/AINewsBot@hilariouschaos.com should show the latest posts for you

Us person here. Does that mean that donations are tax deductible?

We’re a UK-based non-profit company, not a US 501©(3) charity. That means donations aren’t tax deductible in the US.

There are apparently avenues, but we’re not at the stage of looking into that yet.

It’s not a paid feature (we don’t pay) - its their CSAM scanning tool. In this case, because we use the Lemmy proxy, it’s taken down everything pattern matching https://i.lemmy.zip/api/v3/image_proxy which is less than helpful.

Honestly, country is gripped by clowns.

Would not be at all surprised to find the commissioner has shares or a financial interest in Age Verification companies.

Giving adults free access to high quality porn in exchange for stopping children using VPNs would probably be fairly effective.

My response wasn’t regarding the geoblock, but to the above poster saying we block VPNs (which isn’t true)

But just so you’re aware, we dont geoblock federation traffic and all our posts, comments etc are federated without issue.

The only thing geoblocked is the UIs, so UK visitors can’t access the UI.

If your client tries to direct you to lemmy.zip rather than the crossposted article, then that client isn’t working properly and you should log a bug. Like any crosspost, the content federates fine.

Hope that clears it up for you.

Sorry but your posts are FUD. You’re trying to equate people misusing tlds (which happens across many other tlds) as somehow lemmy.zip is “bad” instance that should be avoided.

Not only is that not true, you are also purposely misunderstanding how federation works as if youre somehow safer not interacting with lemmy.zip. Again, not remotely true.

If you want to block .zip TLDs you go for it, no one is stopping you, but you may as well block .com TLDs while you’re at it as that’s where most scams take place.

Just to clear up, you aren’t interacting with lemmy.zip communities directly from your instance. You never directly interface with lemmy.zip, instead the servers send copies of posts and comments between eachother.

There is no risk from lemmy.zip (obviously) - its a lemmy instance that’s been around over 2 years and is perfectly legitimate. There’s just as much risk from every other tld where people intentionally misspell company names or try to insert similar looking characters. Practice basic Internet security (i.e. dont click on links you aren’t expecting) and you’re pretty much covered.

We dont actually block VPNs, but we do block ASNs where we get abuse traffic. Just so happens that Proton VPNs servers in France are on that ASN.

Damn this looks a lot like Objects in Space (which was rudely abandoned in early access)

Edit: actually read the article, same dev, no wonder it looks similar 🤦‍♂️ hope they dont abandon this one.

Hey dont share my email out 😡

The site is up (as you can see by using a vpn!) - if its timing out and youre not seeing anything from cloudflare then its likely something else in your connection preventing you from accessing the site. ISP related maybe?

Might also be worth clearing cache or using a private browser tab to check its not something in the browser

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