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 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.
Exactly this.
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’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.
Wow, that’s quite something. Hopefully a temporary thing due to spam issues or so…
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
sh.itjust.works just works with Mullvad VPN. 😉
Ditto lemm.ee
Have never had a problem using a VPN with programming.dev
Gross.
Not Lemmy, but mbin instance fedia.io doesn’t have any of that nonsense.
come to db0, friend.
I’ve never had an issue and I run Mullvad pretty much 24/7 and routinely change servers.
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
lemmy.today works just fine
Been using a VPN since the start, never had a problem posting.
Lemmy.ca and Sopuli both worked fine on ProtonVPN, and .ca also seems to be fine on Mullvad.
We don’t have any particular anti VPN rules, nor have I heard any complaints from users about cloudflare blocking them.
Is programming.dev behind CloudFlare?
Never had an issue on sopuli.xyz.
I only use VPNs over here. Honestly I think this is probably only an issue on Lemmy.world and nowhere else
