why won't Lemmy let me comment or post unless Idisconnecte from my vpn
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.
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.
unlawfulbooger
in reply to Dop • • •It might depend on the lemmy instance you are posting to (
lemmy.ml) and/or where you have your account (lemmy.world), 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
in reply to unlawfulbooger • • •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
unlawfulbooger
in reply to SqueakyBeaver • • •Oh yeah, hahaha.
Thanks, I’ll fix it.
HootinNHollerin
in reply to Dop • • •Blaze (he/him)
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in reply to 7U5K3N • • •irotsoma
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in reply to Alas Poor Erinaceus • • •I like the way it's ran.. just all around a better experience for me.
krnl386
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in reply to krnl386 • • •Like basically all cloud providers, Oracle publish their public-facing IP address ranges.
docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Con…
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.
IP Address Ranges
docs.oracle.comdb0
in reply to krnl386 • • •slazer2au
in reply to Dop • • •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.
HootinNHollerin
in reply to slazer2au • • •0x0
in reply to HootinNHollerin • • •sunzu2
in reply to HootinNHollerin • • •They host it, so they can do as they please.
Vote with your feet.
Ulrich
in reply to slazer2au • • •MachineFab812
in reply to Ulrich • • •lemmy.world is NOT "Lemmy"
Hell, during the great reddit migration, if I recall correctly, lemmy.world had to cap sign-ups.
Ulrich
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