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.
I use a VPN 24/7 and I haven’t had any issues with Lemmy for posting/commenting. I know reddit fully blocks my VPN with some IP addresses unless I use old.reddit, which is part of why I’ve just had it and left.
I was just going to say that. On VPN always, Reddit blocks pretty much all of my VPNs IPs, but this is the first time I hear of it happening in any Lemmy instance. I’m on lemmy.ml using NordVPN.
Yeah same here, I’m on lemmy.ml using Mullvad and never had an issue. If an instance ever did block it though I’d just leave, that’s also why I never use reddit anymore lol.
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
Lemmy will never do such a thing, but specific Lemmy servers might.
Lemmyworld isn’t the only instance
It’s just the worst one.
Exactly this.
I only use VPNs over here. Honestly I think this is probably only an issue on Lemmy.world and nowhere else
On VPN + Lemmy.World now, no issues yet
Posted through a Proton connection, what’s your VPN? As others have stated this is likely not .world directly, but rather a symptom of Cloudflare (DDoS) protections.
I also use Proton VPN. Most issues were with DE servers I tried, multiple DE servers (like DE#526) didn’t work for me, but some others seem to be working. I also tried some other countries and they were working.
Maybe some spammer just got those IPs blacklisted or something.
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
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" } }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.
Lmao
I’ve been on Mullvad with lemmy.ml and never had problems.
sh.itjust.works just works with Mullvad VPN. 😉
Ditto lemm.ee
Gross.
Not Lemmy, but mbin instance fedia.io doesn’t have any of that nonsense.
No problems on discuss.tchncs.de
come to db0, friend.
Lol
Have never had a problem using a VPN with programming.dev
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
