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Any well-established Lemmy instances that publicly allow posting from VPNs? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Tellore@lemmy.world 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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[–] viking@infosec.pub 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] Tellore@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months 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"
  }
}

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So VPNs and Tor... how interesting... do they block I2P too?

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

i2p doesn't really have exit nodes, it's mostly for i2p internal connections.
The only exit I know is stormycloud.i2p, and that one is somehow immensely limited ro the point of it being hard to load clear-net text pages.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago

Wow, that's quite something. Hopefully a temporary thing due to spam issues or so...

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Lmao