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.

  • fart_pickle@lemmy.world
    392·
    2 months ago

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

  • MerchantsOfMisery
    32·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • youmaynotknow
      13·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Random DentEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        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.

  • viking@infosec.pub
    27·
    2 months ago

    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.worldOPEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      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"
  }
}
        • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          7·
          2 months ago

          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.

      • viking@infosec.pub
        4·
        2 months ago

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

  • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    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.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
    17·
    2 months ago

    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.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      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

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    121·
    2 months ago

    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

    • Shadow@lemmy.ca
      6·
      2 months ago

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