I often use a commercial VPN service, which I suspect is not rare among Lemmy users. Most of the time, I’m able to post to lemmy.world, but on occasion I am not. The default web UI provides zero feedback, just a spinning submit button forever, but if I look in the browser dev tools, I can see it’s being blocked.
I understand that some limitations are necessary to prevent spam and other abuse, however this is a very blunt instrument. The fact that I have a 10 month old account with consistent activity should outweigh any IP address reputation issues.
Perhaps the VPN limitations could be narrowed in scope to cover only account creation and posts from young accounts.
I have specifically split tunneled my VPN so that the app (voyager) I use for Lemmy is actually not included with my VPN traffic. I do not understand why even with the VPN turned off completely and the account signed out and the device restarted I can’t log in. Something really does need to be done here.
This barrier to entry for any legitimate user using a VPN is ridiculously high if even with the VPN turned off completely it still causes issues.