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.
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
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 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
Lemmy will never do such a thing, but specific Lemmy servers might.
Exactly this.
I only use VPNs over here. Honestly I think this is probably only an issue on Lemmy.world and nowhere else
Gross.
Not Lemmy, but mbin instance fedia.io doesn’t have any of that nonsense.
Lol
I’m using a VPN almost permanently, never had any issues there.
Are you sure it’s lemmy.world and not cloudflare or something?
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" } }So VPNs and Tor… how interesting… do they block I2P too?
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.
