Admin team of LGBTQIA.Social Mastodon instance received abuse email from Russian censorship agency, where they demanded to remove an account. The account in question represented a small group that ran a collaborative blog for LGBTQIA youth and adults in Russia.
Shortly after refusal to comply with agency’s demands, the instance was blocked and is now unreachable from Russia.
All previous blocks of Fediverse instaces in Russia were related to hosting CSAM.
That way. You can’t trust a third-party instance to proxy content, every server has to get its own copy.
Fair point, would be an incredibly easy vector for abuse in any other way. Good thing I’m not a software engineer.