Hi all,
I have VPN turned on on my phone all the time.
To be able to post anything, including to comment, I need to turn off the VPN. To be honest, I’m quite conflicted by this.
Any reason why this is or what to do about it besides turning off the VPN?
I’m using Voyager as a client.
Edit: it seems like the instance is the issue. Moving here from Reddit it’s not as simple as j would have thought. Also, VPNs are essential, no VPN is no go for me.
Case closed.
Probably your instance. For example, I’m on a VPN all day every day and I get to post and comment and use Lemmy like nothing happened.
So this is why all my posts never showed!
Just kidding, I just almost never post, but I do use a VPN almost all the time.
Solution: Move to a Lemmy instance that doesn’t suck
I’m on a vpn posting this comment.
Same haha
LW makes an effort to block posting from public VPNs because it also has open registration, and there’s not really much else that can be done to prevent a particularly belligerent spammer/troll from just repeatedly registering accounts. This was put in place after a particularly bad spate of it.
I’m not especially pleased about it, but I understand why it’s happened
It’s definitely your instance, most probably VPNs are not allowed on it. If you do want to use a VPN on Voyager, try changing the country/server, (or exit point as someone else suggested) you should manage to find one that works. - switch quickly then post, works for me.
Edit: yep had to do it to post this message.
It seems like it. I’ll change the instance.
im posting from behind a vpn right now
I had the same problem when I was on lemmy.world. now I’m on this other instance dbzero and it’s mostly smooth except for sometimes things glitch so I turn off my VPN to troubleshoot and then it works for a while, especially some thumbnail pictures won’t load in the post with my VPN on, but lately I’ve been too lazy to toggle my VPN off, I usually just give up on posts when the photo won’t load.
I’ve had the same experience.
The problem is always with posts done on a specific instance, so it’s probably still instance related, maybe the pictures on posts in that instance not being passed around as pictures but rather as a link back to that instance and it’s the instance that is blocking some VPN exit points (which is why sometimes if you reconnect the VPN it fixes - reconnecting usually changes the exit point and only some exit points are blocked).
I assume some instances have coordinated-attack prevention software that disables traffic from past offender IPs, and VPNs are a common way to centralize and anonymize data. Whether malicious in intent or not, a strike against your VPN server might cause a blockage.
I’m posting from a VPN, no issues. Try a different instance.
Same. Paid Proton and Voyager, and no bueno 😭
Well Lemmy is federated so you can pick another instance. :)
Lemmy.today doesn’t block vpns, I use them sometimes.
As others have said it is based on instance. I get why some have instances have the restriction though.
I get why some have instances have the restriction though.
I get it too.
Which is why I so fucking hate ppl, companies, govs, w/e who abuse services. When it gets bad enough, it makes the service clamp down. And that means loss of privacy for everyone. Even the ppl not abusing it.
TBF I don’t know what will prevent the more open Lemmy instances from that fate. Today, Lemmy flies under the radar. Too small for anyone to notice or care. Too tiny to be target for mass disinfo campaigns. Or shitty influencers to infest and take it over. But if it gets big enuf… it’ll have the same probs. There are probs that aren’t do to the algorithms on reddit or w/e. Some come from sheer scale. Humans gotta ruin everything nice.
Huh, have you tried changing your exit?
Because I’m on a vpn now…
I have the same issue and same software. However, Lemmy hosting webservers need to have some ‘malicious activity protections’ and if too much malicious activity occur from the same origin of IP where you are exiting from, you won’t be able to post a comment.
I use Mullvad. All I have to do is to reconnect to a different exitpoint (can still be within the same country). And then attempt to post again. Might take a couple of tries, but it will work :)
If you don’t want to reconnect, read up if you can configure your VPN to use the SOCKS5 protocol. Easier to not get blocked or “are you a bot?” Captchas and so on.
One funny thing, thia exact thing happened me when posting my comment xD
Could be where your VPN is hosted. If your traffic appears to be coming from (for instance) an AWS data center, it might appear to be coming from a known spam source (since there are some spammers which have used AWS). The instance you’re on might just be using an overzealous spam block IP list.
