Any well-established Lemmy instances that publicly allow posting from VPNs?
from Tellore@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 30 Aug 01:12
https://lemmy.world/post/19205545

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.

#privacy

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KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz on 30 Aug 01:18 next collapse

Never had an issue on sopuli.xyz.

sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today on 30 Aug 01:25 next collapse

lemmy.today works just fine

fart_pickle@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 01:27 next collapse

I never had issues posting on Lemmy when using vpn. If Lemmy starts blocking my vpn I will stop using Lemmy.

VeganicTankie@lemmygrad.ml on 30 Aug 01:52 next collapse

Lemmyworld isn’t the only instance

MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml on 30 Aug 05:11 collapse

It’s just the worst one.

tilefan@lemm.ee on 30 Aug 02:30 next collapse

that’s not how instances work

lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works on 30 Aug 07:41 next collapse

Exactly this.

Zak@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 12:20 collapse

Lemmy will never do such a thing, but specific Lemmy servers might.

mipadaitu@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 01:34 next collapse

Been using a VPN since the start, never had a problem posting.

Rogue1633@discuss.tchncs.de on 30 Aug 01:34 next collapse

No problems on discuss.tchncs.de

viking@infosec.pub on 30 Aug 01:44 next collapse

I’m using a VPN almost permanently, never had any issues there.

Are you sure it’s lemmy.world and not cloudflare or something?

Tellore@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 10:07 collapse

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"
  }
}
viking@infosec.pub on 30 Aug 10:39 next collapse

Wow, that’s quite something. Hopefully a temporary thing due to spam issues or so…

0x0@programming.dev on 30 Aug 10:41 next collapse

So VPNs and Tor… how interesting… do they block I2P too?

Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Aug 18:55 collapse

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.

krolden@lemmy.ml on 30 Aug 14:16 collapse

Lmao

hellfire103@lemmy.ca on 30 Aug 01:45 next collapse

Lemmy.ca and Sopuli both worked fine on ProtonVPN, and .ca also seems to be fine on Mullvad.

Shadow@lemmy.ca on 30 Aug 03:16 collapse

We don’t have any particular anti VPN rules, nor have I heard any complaints from users about cloudflare blocking them.

0x0@programming.dev on 30 Aug 10:42 collapse

Is programming.dev behind CloudFlare?

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 30 Aug 02:00 next collapse

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.

Tellore@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 10:10 collapse

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

finestnothing@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 02:06 next collapse

I occasionally have issues with posting comments on proton VPN, but it’s inconsistent

FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Aug 02:17 next collapse

come to db0, friend.

harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Aug 11:00 collapse

I’ve never had an issue and I run Mullvad pretty much 24/7 and routinely change servers.

dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io on 30 Aug 02:22 next collapse

Gross.

Not Lemmy, but mbin instance fedia.io doesn't have any of that nonsense.

MrCamel999@programming.dev on 30 Aug 02:47 next collapse

Have never had a problem using a VPN with programming.dev

KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 02:50 next collapse

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.

Tellore@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 10:02 collapse

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.

ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Aug 18:16 collapse

Maybe some spammer just got those IPs blacklisted or something.

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 30 Aug 03:45 next collapse

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

MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml on 30 Aug 05:02 next collapse

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.

jjlinux@lemmy.ml on 30 Aug 05:20 collapse

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.

CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml on 30 Aug 17:13 collapse

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.

lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works on 30 Aug 07:42 next collapse

sh.itjust.works just works with Mullvad VPN. 😉

eleitl@lemm.ee on 30 Aug 12:42 collapse

Ditto lemm.ee

krolden@lemmy.ml on 30 Aug 14:15 next collapse

Lol

BelatedPeacock@lemmy.world on 31 Aug 01:58 next collapse

On VPN + Lemmy.World now, no issues yet

communism@lemmy.ml on 31 Aug 02:24 next collapse

I’ve been on Mullvad with lemmy.ml and never had problems.

delirious_owl@discuss.online on 31 Aug 03:01 collapse

I only use VPNs over here. Honestly I think this is probably only an issue on Lemmy.world and nowhere else