why won't Lemmy let me comment or post unless Idisconnecte from my vpn
why won't Lemmy let me comment or post unless Idisconnecte from my vpn
That's it, I get an error message whenever I try to post or comment if I'm connected to my VPN, butnot trouble if I just get disconnected. Does not fit the idea of decentralized social media I had, but overall I'm mainly curious as to the reason why it is so.
Lemmy has nothing in its code that blocks VPNs. Unfortunately a lot of instances use cloudflare and other man-in-the-middle services that do block VPNs.
man-in-the-middle services
*Threat actors
Its because you're on lemmy.world
Join us lemmy.dbzer0.com
We do not discriminate, I use Tor just fine.
Alternatively you can try my recommended instances:
sh.itjust.works
sopuli.xyz
(I have not tried these over Tor yet, so test it for yourself)
I left lemmy.world for these reasons. Haven't had any issues with lemmy.ml yet though 👍
Don’t ever mention Winnie the Pooh
I tried to switch, but I had an issue with dbzer0 not marking posts as read which didn't work out for me.
I believe Lemmy.world blocks VPNs. You could try a different instance which doesn't have that policy
Because so many bad actors use VPNs for ban evasion or span sources, blocking the VPN endpoints from posting or commenting is a low hanging fruit way of dealing with some spam. This is Lemmy.World stance.
There are many others instances that work over VPNs so in the spirit of decentralization you can use another instance to access lemmy.world content.
Does .World think it’s their content?
It's hosted in their servers. Dunno about the content licenses, if any.
They host it, so they can do as they please.
Vote with your feet.
Aye good to know some instances block VPNs , didn’t know that. As a user from China who has to use a VPN always that would be problematic. Guys I got lucky with my instance.
Shit really just works
Don't use Lemmy.world server it is the regime front on fedi.
One of many reasons to change instances
Lemmy.dbzer0.com for the win
It might depend on the lemmy instance you are posting to (
lemmy.ml) and/or where you have your account (lemmy.world), because I don’t think that this is built into the AP protocol.I suspect at least one of these uses some kind of filtering mechanism that blocks VPN users, like cloudflare’s CDN.
btw, I think you may have mixed up the instances. The user is on .world and the post is on .ml
Other than that, you're probably correct
Oh yeah, hahaha.
Thanks, I’ll fix it.
I used to have the same issue with lemmy.world - it’s the instance
This is it! Instance blocks it.
.world is a fickle bitch in general. It would be good if more users and communities balanced out amongst other instances.
I just reconnect and hope for an unflagged IP lol
Get a free VPS from Oracle cloud in whatever region you want, run Wireguard on it. There, now you have a VPN that you control, and since it’s hosted by Oracle, and not a VPN company, there’s no way to “detect” it.
Like basically all cloud providers, Oracle publish their public-facing IP address ranges.
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/General/Concepts/addressranges.htm
Many services block these because, as you are pointing out, standing up VPN tunnel routing on a cloud instance is sort of trivial. Cloud providers publish these ranges specifically so anyone can block them easily. If lemmy.world is not blocking Oracle Cloud already, it's only because they just haven't come around to it.
I assure you that's detectable. The VPN detector I know, classifies all cloud providers as VPN as a matter of course, because no normal user would be coming from a cloud network.
Or better, run your own instance, rather than a VPN.
Yup, good point. One can run a private instance for “selfish” reasons.