Notes

But things changed a lot after 2022 — when a lot of Internet-related services started to reuse “the best practices” of breaking the connectivity between people and breaking the international network itself.

Finally, in one day I decided to write this post to document the things that were happening. That day, I read a post about the FreeBSD 2025 survey in Mastodon, tried to open the attached link to the third-party site with the survey itself, and … failed. Just because that site decided to block all people with russian IPs. I don’t know the intention of this decision, especially in the year 2025 — in this year, I hope, almost all people understood how the things work and stopped pursuing the dream that blocking residental russian IPs could make the world a better place. Network provincialism and balkanization