They also have, or used to have, their own domains and servers, but those can be blocked at the (national) ISP level rather quickly.

On the other hand by mixing their content in centralized websites, they need to send takedown requests to every single one of them, since they would block legitimate traffic otherwise[1]. It's basically a workaround for IP and TLS SNI blocking.

Of course this is all to make it simple for non-techies to access their website / application. If they required using a VPN/Tor their adoption would probably plummet.

[1] Actually they blocked an IPFS gateway before so it's more like "well-known centralized websites".

If I host a web server, and the only access is the ssh port, how should anybody guess that I use it to host a git repo that you and I work on together? More is not needed. Might even work on public clouds since you shouldn't really raise any attention this way.

I love how normal crushing dissent is to you.

This is the new normal :/

New normal compared to when? Since when have republics tolerated competition?

When presented with a competing peoples, they generally look to destroy their food supplies first. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/05/the-buf...