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Any well-established Lemmy instances that publicly allow posting from VPNs? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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    • [–] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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    • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm using a VPN almost permanently, never had any issues there.

    Are you sure it's lemmy.world and not cloudflare or something?

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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"
  }
}
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    • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years 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

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    • [–] [B] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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    • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

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

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Gross.

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

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    [+] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    come to db0, friend.

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    • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    lemmy.today works just fine

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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    • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

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

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Never had an issue on sopuli.xyz.

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Lol

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

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

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I occasionally have issues with posting comments on proton VPN, but it's inconsistent

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    No problems on discuss.tchncs.de

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    On VPN + Lemmy.World now, no issues yet

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago

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

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