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.

  • AliceEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    Nah dude, I’m not advocating to be havin to deal with they csam bullshit.

    It’s the main thing we have zero tolerance for on our instance HC.

    It’s the primary reason we were not federating in the first place.

    So no I don’t expect anyone to put themselves legally at risk for a hobby that doesn’t pay your bills just so I can post my poop and fart questions on shitty ask hilariouschaos lol

    But I’m gunna level with you though.

    I don’t trust the intentions of most instance admins.

    There’s this veil of secrecy and sneakiness there that I just don’t appreciate.

    It’s not a way that myself and our server admin operate.

    We’re always straight up and 100% transparent as fuck no matter what till the end. We have no issue telling our users what’s going on and how stuff works if they have questions or if there’s any changes. I’m not saying that to talk shit on you. I’m saying it’s what I don’t see from some other instances.

    And I get that you have to protect yourself that is true yes of course.

    I’m just trying to explain why I asked you that question in the first place.

    I’m not going to tell you how to run your shit, cuz I wouldn’t like it if you told me that LOL haha but there’s a huge benefit to being unapologetically brutally honest and straightforward and up front.

    I don’t know I just feel like there’s some hidden agenda something just doesn’t sit well with me with some other instance admins. So I’m very skeptical and wonder what they’re up to.

    It’s just really fucking weird anyway I hope y’all figure out your stuff.

    Thanks for responding

    • @RookiA
      4•7 months ago

      Its the curso of a big instance, we announce stuff gets shit on, doesnt announce it gets shit on, makes a vote gets shit on, makes a friendly survey gets shit on.

      We are still trying to announce most of the stuff we do but, some things would have been announcement back and forth because we activated and deactivated one of our harder rules.

      • AliceEnglish
        2•7 months ago

        Yea, sounds like a rock and hard place for sure. Don’t let it bother you anymore so much. There’s only so much you can do, and you can’t please everyone.

        I feel like lemmy can kinda become a bit of a whole you get sucked into at times.

        Happens to me sometimes. Take a break and step away for a little breather when that happens.

        I know it’s hard to do trust me. I’m addicted to technology so I’ll be the first to tell you ha ha

        But yea don’t stress yourself out. It’ll be alright