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.

  • MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 months ago

    I use a VPN 24/7 and I haven’t had any issues with Lemmy for posting/commenting. I know reddit fully blocks my VPN with some IP addresses unless I use old.reddit, which is part of why I’ve just had it and left.

    • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 months ago

      I was just going to say that. On VPN always, Reddit blocks pretty much all of my VPNs IPs, but this is the first time I hear of it happening in any Lemmy instance. I’m on lemmy.ml using NordVPN.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
    2·
    2 months ago

    It’s likely Cloudflare related. Some of the larger instances are behind that, but many of the smaller ones aren’t. Cloudflare isn’t only a problem for VPN users, so its a good idea to avoid those instances as a user. You can still interact with their communities via Federation.

    • Tellore@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I got 401 from lemmy.world with the following response payload:

      {
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": 403,
    "message": "Posting & Uploading blocked from VPN/Tor"
  }
}

      PS: yeah, I know it says it’s 403 in payload, but in response it’s 401

  • viking@infosec.pub
    1·
    2 months ago

    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.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      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"
  }
}
        • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          4·
          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.

  • fart_pickle@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    I never had issues posting on Lemmy when using vpn. If Lemmy starts blocking my vpn I will stop using Lemmy.

  • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Posted through a Proton connection, what’s your VPN? As others have stated this is likely not .world directly, but rather a symptom of Cloudflare (DDoS) protections.

    • Tellore@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I also use Proton VPN. Most issues were with DE servers I tried, multiple DE servers (like DE#526) didn’t work for me, but some others seem to be working. I also tried some other countries and they were working.