Hopefully not too niche being a Japanese service, but has anyone been able to register for Misskey? They aren't allowing registration from outside Japan (the VPN I tried didn't work). From what I can tell, they started restricting registration a year ago, has it been closed the whole time?

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[–] yuki@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Of course you can, as long as you pick another instance. I am not in Japan either, and I am currently on 2 misskey instances and one sharkey instance. Misskey is federated with activitypub , and spreaded all around the world. Other public instances can be checked here. As for federation, misskey.io actually is blocked by many instances because it has underage content

[–] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Misskey is also a federated and decentralized platform like Lemmy. There are a bunch of other instances of Misskey other than the one in japan.

Check here: https://misskey-hub.net/en/servers/

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 6 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, don't just just join the largest instance. Look at the smaller ones. And that is true for any fedi backend. Be it misskey or mastodon, sometimes smaller is better. Sometimes smaller instance has better local community and better administration.

[–] nmtake@lemm.ee 8 points 15 hours ago

Yes, they started the restriction a year ago. For a future reference, here's the announcement about the restriction (written in Japanese): https://support.misskey.io/hc/ja/articles/7604557294607

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

What instance?

[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Was the big one, misskey.io. I found a federated instance I was able to register at, I just wonder just how federated it's all going to be if the big instance is restricted.

[–] JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 hours ago

misskey.io is a Japanese instance under Japanese law. With pretty lax rules, and only under Japanese law. Which means that just about everything in the West blocks misskey.io, and I think misskey.io doesn't let Westerners join.

Why?

Because lolicon is allowed on misskey.io.

Thing is, lolicon may or may not count as CSAM by Western standards. Western lawmakers haven't decided about it yet, hence "may or may not". But "may or may not" may mean "yes, it is".

And so, to be safe, Western instances block the hell out of misskey.io to keep what may or may not be CSAM from coming in. Remember that Mastodon caches any and all media. One lolicon post being washed up on Mastodon.social may be enough for Gargron to end up behind bars for "having child pr0n on his Web server".

In Japan, on the other hand, lawmakers have decided. Lolicon is not CSAM, and it's legal.

Thus, misskey.io, being hosted in Japan under Japanese law and only Japanese law, allows lolicon all over the place.

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I can't help with "now" but it definitely wasn't locked the whole time. I used to have an account on Misskey.io without any issues or need for VPN (that was before they changed the registration rules though).

[–] marmar22@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 15 hours ago

I don't think so. I still have the account I registered a few years ago