Got curious and went to the original page, and it is literally just one sentence vague announcement:

Due to Google’s alleged violation of the “Anti-Monopoly Law of the People’s Republic of China,” the State Administration for Market Regulation has lawfully initiated an investigation into Google.

Really not sure what they actually launched the antitrust probe for; this is just pure political drama lol

Edit: Okay, it is possibly because of Android dominance, but again, still a political drama

Their search service is banned but they still have ad (AdMob and Google Ads) and developer services (GoLang, Firebase, Android, Tensorflow, etc) there. and their last customer-targeted service remaining are Google Chrome (www.google.cn/chrome) and a website directory Google 265 (www.265.com)

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The emotional part of me yells “shut up and take my money”, but the rational part of me tells me that it will be another useless piece of junk on my shelf

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Also some addition: a lot of people in China does not host the Fedi server in China, mostly because the requirement of obtaining ICP License if they want to host in China

As a China-born Hongkonger, little to none for Lemmy as far as I know, but there are actually a lot of people in mainland China uses Fediverse but mostly on Mastodon and Misskey. I do have two friends in mainland China who are able to use Mastodon without VPN.

Also some fun fact(?): Each time when I need to go back to mainland China, I always check if several instances are blocked. As far as I tested last time, lemmy.world is not banned in mainland China

Shadowsocks/ShadowsocksR/vmess/vless/trojan: