Basically the subject is in title. I recently discovered lemmy.world doesn’t allow commenting/posting from VPNs. Some VPNs are working, but it seems to be a matter of time until they appear on publicly sourced lists and banned.
No problems on discuss.tchncs.de
VPN issue usage is big tech issue tbh. They don’t like it, find another instance but also note that VPN does not really provide privacy etc it is just part of better set up.
Corps don’t like it BC they can’t farm you as easily
I’ve been on Mullvad with lemmy.ml and never had problems.
On VPN + Lemmy.World now, no issues yet
sh.itjust.works just works with Mullvad VPN. 😉
Ditto lemm.ee
I only use VPNs over here. Honestly I think this is probably only an issue on Lemmy.world and nowhere else
Never had an issue on sopuli.xyz.
lemmy.today works just fine
I never had issues posting on Lemmy when using vpn. If Lemmy starts blocking my vpn I will stop using Lemmy.
that’s not how instances work
Lemmyworld isn’t the only instance
It’s just the worst one.
Exactly this.
Lemmy will never do such a thing, but specific Lemmy servers might.
I’m using a VPN almost permanently, never had any issues there.
Are you sure it’s lemmy.world and not cloudflare or something?
Yes, this is response payload it gives when hitting “Reply” or “Post” from certain VPNs:
{ "success": false, "error": { "code": 403, "message": "Posting & Uploading blocked from VPN/Tor" } }Lmao
So VPNs and Tor… how interesting… do they block I2P too?
i2p doesn’t really have exit nodes, it’s mostly for i2p internal connections.
The only exit I know is stormycloud.i2p, and that one is somehow immensely limited ro the point of it being hard to load clear-net text pages.
Wow, that’s quite something. Hopefully a temporary thing due to spam issues or so…
Been using a VPN since the start, never had a problem posting.
Lol
Have never had a problem using a VPN with programming.dev
I occasionally have issues with posting comments on proton VPN, but it’s inconsistent
It’s likely Cloudflare related. Some of the larger instances are behind that, but many of the smaller ones aren’t. Cloudflare isn’t only a problem for VPN users, so its a good idea to avoid those instances as a user. You can still interact with their communities via Federation.
I got 401 from lemmy.world with the following response payload:
{ "success": false, "error": { "code": 403, "message": "Posting & Uploading blocked from VPN/Tor" } }PS: yeah, I know it says it’s 403 in payload, but in response it’s 401
