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Yay! More centralisation!
(lemm.ee)
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A picture of the Ben Affleck Smoking meme, with the caption "Me seeing people on reddit telling other people to go to lemmy.world"
lemmy.world does not allow the use of vpn to post. vpn is basic internet hygiene. do not go to lemmy.world if you care about that, our you will not be able to post.
you can join any federated instance instead.
one day later edit: i took my information from this post of a lemmy.world admin: https://lemmy.world/comment/12079632
I was made aware that users are able to post on lemmy.world while using a vpn. maybe their stance has changed?
aside from that, try to avoid joining the biggest instance and join smaller, federated instances instead. this reduces load and avoids centralization.
according to vpn companies
9 out 10 VPN companies recommend hiding your IP address.
That is definitely not true. I'm using one right now, and there is a VPN community at !vpn@lemmy.world.
https://lemmy.world/comment/12079632
is this resolved then? i will update my comment to correctly reflect the current situation then :)
Thanks for the link, I wasn't aware of that discussion. The lemmy.world terms of service says:
It looks like lemmy.world does not proactively block VPNs, but does block IP addresses that have used lemmy.world abusively, even if blocking the IPs would cause other unrelated accounts to be affected.
All I can say is that I've never been affected by such a block. But if I do get affected, I'll switch to a different instance or even a different service such as Piefed and Mbin.