Haven’t heard of them till now, not necessarily my hobby but i’ll think of it as a backup, thank you.

Can’t have shit in Saudi, not even Lemmy 😤

Yes, it’s a WIP for me, but i’m improving my rust and OCaml skills, but they have a struggling job market.

You underestimate how bigoted the average Gulf Arab is, I’d need to do it to everyone 😅

If old white US southerners are casually racist, than the average gulf Arab is a competitive racist. Especially with Jews 😂

Thank you, that makes me hopeful. ❤️

I plan on trying to apply for asylum somewhere. There’s a lot of useful information for saudi dissidents on a forum that i won’t mention the name of, but from it my choices are: Canada, Australia, UK, America, France, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Ireland.

All of these, i’d give a kidney to be in anyway. But if i’ll make this once in a lifetime choice, i might as well choose what’s best for me. A big problem is finance and racism. The western world isn’t friendly to Arabs from what i’ve seen, so i’d probably need to lay low.

I used to want to go to Germany, but this ominous message on the forum made me think twice. They leave it at that, but it’s unsettling to me.

That’s what i’m afraid of, too. Doing such risky things in the middle of the den of snakes. There isn’t much they can do to a visitor, but they can do what they please to “threats” and dissidents.

That shit’ll get me on a watchlist, trying to access a website for trans people 😂

But if i ask nicely…

I use it as my default. My OS is windows 11. Saudi censorship is directly from the ISP, unless you’re using a VPN or a proxy, no way around it. I tolerate using VPNs and tor, but it’s still frustrating. Hence, the post on mildlyinfuriating :)

Same here. Only instead of partner and family, it’s the internet. They’re mad, too. It really makes you feel like you are the only one sane in the whole world, and people on the internet don’t even feel real, like they come from a fantasy. And i get the racism, too :/ But for us it’s towards Jews. Apparently the YAHOOD changed some musical cord to mind control the whole world, according to my old substitute teacher, in a completely unrelated rant.

I constantly feel like i’m at the edge of my sanity, but what could be done? Patience, i guess.

Stay safe, and i hope you can get out happily.

Yeah, but it’s a little weird how they’d go out of their way to ban such a small and obscure website. I didn’t even know the feds knew about lemmy. Besides, it’s been fine for a long time for me.

But this was bound to happen eventually, i guess :/

The thing to keep in mind is that Saudi Arabia doesn’t have any rights for citizens. The law can be enforced arbitrarily and you could just disappear one day

I am well aware of that :( Hopefully i can disappear out of here before they make me.

Yeah, i’ve heard of it. But the only instance i know with it is lemmy.ml and, well. It’s lemmy.ml. Besides, i like lemm.ee, if i have to use a VPN for it, i guess i have to.

But thank you for the advice!

Thanks for the advice (And my condolences for being in russia, too 😔). I’ve been thinking of setting up a VPN on my router, but the performance be too costly. We’ll see how it goes, i guess.

You understand it correctly. The problem is i can’t see anything other than the text of their posts/comments. Posts with images, i wouldn’t be able to see the image.

Same thing on cloudflare. That’s a full national ban, alright. Unfortunately there’s no way to bypass without a VPN, and VPNs are quite slow for me.

Oh dear, hearing anything about russia almost makes me proud to a saudi :).

Through our suffering, we are brothers 😂

Yep, our laws cannot override sharia (unless you’re a filthy royal or a higher up 🙄) Even “witchcraft” isn’t allowed, which can mean anything, i actually have no fucking clue what is even witchcraft to the sauds 😂

Sorry to hear that, hopefully it will turn out all right for trans people in the US.

I’m trying, hopefully one day i can.

Getting citizenship (particularly in the EU, and any country for that matter) is insanely hard, and that’s just the citizenship (even asylum is turned down often). You need a stable job in that country, a place to live, and above average skills to prove your worth. And you have to leave everything behind, including your family since it would be dangerous to go back. Can’t forget people will never truly accept you as your own, and see you as an immigrant, never as a citizen.

And Saudi Arabia is well known to spy and even harm dissidents, even if outside the country.