c/privacy · by Tellore@lemmy.world · 1y

Any well-established Lemmy instances that publicly allow posting from VPNs?

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.

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34 Comments

fart_pickle@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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

tilefan@lemm.ee · 23 pts · 1y

that's not how instances work

Zak@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

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

lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Exactly this.

MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml · 30 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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 · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 · 3 pts · 1y

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 · 26 pts · 1y (4 replies)

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 · 12 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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"
  }
}

0x0@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y

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 · 3 pts · 1y

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

KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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 · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 · 3 pts · 1y

Maybe some spammer just got those IPs blacklisted or something.

poVoq@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 · 3 pts · 1y

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

lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

eleitl@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y

Ditto lemm.ee

MrCamel999@programming.dev · 13 pts · 1y

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

dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io · 11 pts · 1y

Gross.

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

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 10 pts · 1y

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FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

come to db0, friend.

harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y

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

sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 1y

lemmy.today works just fine

hellfire103@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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

Shadow@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

0x0@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y

Is programming.dev behind CloudFlare?

mipadaitu@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

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

KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 1y

Never had an issue on sopuli.xyz.

delirious_owl@discuss.online · 6 pts · 1y

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

finestnothing@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

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Rogue1633@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 1y

No problems on discuss.tchncs.de

BelatedPeacock@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

On VPN + Lemmy.World now, no issues yet

communism@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y

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

downpunxx@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y

fedia.io