China is going after the Fediverse, finally. A ton of servers have started getting hit with DNS poisoning and TCP reset attacks as the Great Firewall fuckery begins.
If you see fewer Chinese voices in your TL today that is why.
@adam is right about the need for there to be lots of small servers. It’s concentration that allows this kind of heavy handed government censorship to work.
@realcaseyrollins@adam I have alt accounts on five Chinese servers. There is a lot of Fediverse activity over there in cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen. It won’t make it into your timeline unless users on your server are following users in China. That’s just how the Fediverse works.
It’s just part of social media that people tend to coalesce into linguistic ghettos.
How often do you see content on Facebook popping up in Vietnamese in your timeline? You probably don’t have a lot of friends sharing Vietnamese content with you even though there is tons of it on Facebook.