Seems like the fediverse would be a good way for Chinese citizens to get around censorship.
Does anyone know if they are using it?
As a China-born Hongkonger, little to none for Lemmy as far as I know, but there are actually a lot of people in mainland China uses Fediverse but mostly on Mastodon and Misskey. I do have two friends in mainland China who are able to use Mastodon without VPN.
Also some fun fact(?): Each time when I need to go back to mainland China, I always check if several instances are blocked. As far as I tested last time, lemmy.world is not banned in mainland China
Also some addition: a lot of people in China does not host the Fedi server in China, mostly because the requirement of obtaining ICP License if they want to host in China
.ml and hexbear appeared to be blocked by chinese firewall year ago https://lemmy.ca/post/6763328
somehow i doubt that chinese authorities warmed up to the idea of fedi since
The irony
I found this but it’s slow moving and of course idk where it’s hosted https://fediverse.observer/dao.chinese.org
Says hong kong
Lemmy.ml and I’m sure there are others
ml is more like a Chinese lovers tankie instance. Not a Chinese one.
I think OP is asking about a Chinese nationals one, written in mandarin and used by people living there.
Yeah, most of the Chinese people I know on the fediverse are most certainly not gonna vib with the like of hexbear, grad, and ml.
