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submitted 6 hours ago by Dop@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours 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.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours 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.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 9 points 3 hours ago

It also prevents normal people from using Lemmy at all...

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 hours ago

Does .World think it’s their content?

[-] unlawfulbooger 13 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

It might depend on the lemmy instance you are posting to (lemmy.world) and/or where you have your account (lemmy.ml), 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.

[-] SqueakyBeaver 2 points 15 minutes ago

btw, I think you may have mixed up the instances. The user is on .world and the post is on .ml

Other than that, you're probably correct

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

One of many reasons to change instances

[-] Blaze@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 hours ago

Lemmy.dbzer0.com for the win

[-] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

That's where I went when I left .world. :)

[-] ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 hours ago

I used to have the same issue with lemmy.world - it’s the instance

[-] NOT_RICK_SANCHEZ@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

This is it! Instance blocks it.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago

.world is a fickle bitch in general. It would be good if more users and communities balanced out amongst other instances.

[-] krnl386@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 hours 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.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 hours ago

I assure you that's detectable. The VPN detector I know, classifies all cloud providers as VPN as a matter of course, because no normal user would be coming from a cloud network.

[-] evujumenuk@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Like basically all cloud providers, Oracle publish their public-facing IP address ranges.

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/General/Concepts/addressranges.htm

Many services block these because, as you are pointing out, standing up VPN tunnel routing on a cloud instance is sort of trivial. Cloud providers publish these ranges specifically so anyone can block them easily. If lemmy.world is not blocking Oracle Cloud already, it's only because they just haven't come around to it.

[-] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 hours ago

Or better, run your own instance, rather than a VPN.

[-] krnl386@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

Yup, good point. One can run a private instance for “selfish” reasons.

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