Basically the title. I use MullVad, and recently discovered that Lemmy.world is not allowing me to submit new posts or commenting on others’ posts if I have my VPN on.
For now I have excluded my Lemmy client of choice (Voyager) from my VPN, so things are back to normal.
As a reason behind this, I read elsewhere that this blocking of VPN is intentional as certain people posted CSAM while behind VPN. This is pretty despicable, so I totally support shutting those people out.
However, on that same note, I think it is fair to assume that every post and comment on Lemmy is stored along with the IP address of the User. Is that right?
Edit : Some readers are confirming that they can write posts and comments in Lemmy.world while on a VPN - and I wholeheartedly thank them. I only posted what I personally (and some other lemmings as well) experienced. I still do not know if this is a widespread problem or only happening to a few.
You can spin up a VPN on a server using docker really easy. That IP won’t be banned and it won’t be (directly) yours. If you create a snapshot of the server when it’s functional, deleteing and reinstantiating gets you a new IP for not too much extra work.
If you own the server then it’s not really anonymizing.
It’s not truly anonymous, correct. But OP has made an exception with Lemmy and is using his own IP now. So while it wouldn’t make it impossible to track down, but it would make it more difficult for non-government agencies to discover the true owner. Personally in the situation where I’m not totally anonymous, I don’t completely give up and hand over my actual IP, I take as many steps as I can because it either makes it more difficult, or reduces the number of individuals and companies (not governments) that are willing to track down that information.