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VPN and Tor use on the lemmy verse, is it banned ?
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this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2024
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How else do you prevent spam/illegal content originating from behind those locations?
There is nothing stopping you from running your own private Lemmy instance to get around those restrictions.
Simply disabling registration of new accounts using Tor/VPN should be sufficient and won't affect existing users.
Although, requiring verification of accounts made via those would be a better approach. Require captchas to prevent automated posting. Automatically mark posts made from new accounts and/or via Tor or a VPN for moderation review.
There are way to mitigate spam that aren't as blunt and overreaching as blanket banning entire IP ranges. This approach is the dumbest, least competent way of ensuring any kind of security, and, honestly, awfully close to being needlessly discriminating. Fuck everyone from countries with draconian internet censorship, I guess?
It crossed my mind to host my own instance, but I am not very confident in my tech skills. It might create more security issues than it solves.
It definitely will. Past CSAM spam used abandoned or ignored instances to smuggle into the larger ones.
When you build something yourself, you also become responsible for what goes through it.