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.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
    46·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    37·
    7 days ago

    I believe Lemmy.world blocks VPNs. You could try a different instance which doesn’t have that policy

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        141·
        7 days ago

        You are commenting on a lemmy.world community, but your connecting to sh.itjust.works, who then talks to lemmy.world. Your VPN isn’t connecting directly to lemmy.world

        • TheCoralReefsAreDying69@lemmy.world
          5·
          6 days ago

          I use a VPN and have never had issues connecting to lemmy.world despite regularly having issues with YouTube and Reddit. I wonder if its specific VPN networks or blacklisted IPs that lemmy.world doesn’t like.

          • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
            21·
            6 days ago

            Maybe .world only blocks the big VPNs. World pages also load very slow at least comparing to .ml. When someone links a .world link directly to a post there it takes ages to load.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • unlawfulbooger@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    19·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • Tiger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • krnl386@lemmy.ca
    91·
    7 days ago

    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.