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A simple network sniffer is enough to figure out what sites the app is connecting to, then you can just block them on the router.

If you are using Android, you can do that easily right on your phone with PCAPdroid, it’s on the play store. No root required.

Filter is not block though, if you open the instance on your browser, you still see them. Only if you actually block them, they are gone.

Yep, confirmed. Not working for me either in Beta 30.

So that’s why you have 2 accounts ;-)

Workplace policy leading to inherent familiarity with the system.

Plus most people aren’t heavy users or particularly tech-savvy. Installing an OS from scratch is already too much to ask for most.

Maybe put it on the github tracker as a feature request so you can be certain to get a reply?

https://github.com/laurencedawson/sync-for-lemmy/issues/new/choose

Works for me.

Device information

Sync version: v23.08.03-16:15    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: true    
View type: Cards    
Push enabled: false    

Device: OP516FL1    
Model: OnePlus NE2211    
Android: 12

Nah. They don’t know Google translate. Or Google, for that matter. They know what they are supposed to know.

Of course some people know better, and those are the ones who will eventually get around the block - finding and installing a VPN is not rocket science, not even here. But if you keep 98% of the population contained, the rest won’t reach critical mass.

The quick block is there, under “filter”.

It doesn’t work in China, if that’s any indication.

You might want to sign up with astrill. Greetings from China, we’ve been dealing with this shit for decades.

Comes with a built in translator and spell checker, and since access to Google translate is blocked, that’s often the only alternative.

Sure. Foreigners aren’t really sanctioned though, that’s more of a risk for the locals. But even then usually only if they want to get someone disappeared and don’t have anything substantial against them.

Worse. They think it’s useful.

Then they’ll install the Linux version. People here are so indoctrinated, they like it.

That looks nice. I’ll check it out if I have some time later; though my written Chinese is fairly limited. So far the Windows keyboard layout did just fine.

I live in China and this software is cancerous not just in the encryption failure, it also nestles into a computer like a trojan. Creates 2 fallback installations and will reinstall itself after removal if you reboot in between, unless you get rid of all 3 installations at once, where they are deliberately trying to obfuscate the uninstall button (triple confirmation, swapping the confirm/cancel buttons and button background colors, etc.).

It’s a nasty piece of crap that come preloaded on any phone (android, at least) and Windows-PC here.

Neither of which supports Chinese, so that’s useless for any actual users of Sogou.

I believe the lemmy API only shows one or the other. Would be possible to combine it on the app, but not as a native function.

Every instance is hosting the API for their own users, and unfortunately lemmy.world has plenty of outages recently.

The way Lemmy works is that when you have an account with lemmy.world and subscribe to a community hosted on lemm.ee (for example), the lemm.ee server copies the content over to lemmy.world, and you see it all “locally”. Hence a lemmy.world server outage reflects what you see with your lemmy.world account. Local communities will always be shown “as local” of course, so a server outage then means it’s completely offline for the time being.

A quick fix would be to sign up with a smaller instance and subscribe to the communities from there (including the ones on lemmy.world), in that case even if lemmy.world is offline, you would be able to see and interact with their cached copies on the target instance. I’ve made an account with infosec.pub for that purpose.