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
Lemmyworld isn’t the only instance
It’s just the worst one.
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.
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
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.
sh.itjust.works just works with Mullvad VPN. 😉
Ditto lemm.ee
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.
come to db0, friend.
I’ve never had an issue and I run Mullvad pretty much 24/7 and routinely change servers.
Been using a VPN since the start, never had a problem posting.
I occasionally have issues with posting comments on proton VPN, but it’s inconsistent
Lol
No problems on discuss.tchncs.de
Never had an issue on sopuli.xyz.
On VPN + Lemmy.World now, no issues yet
I’ve been on Mullvad with lemmy.ml and never had problems.
