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.
Well Lemmy is federated so you can pick another instance. :)
Lemmy.today doesn’t block vpns, I use them sometimes.
Lemmy doesn’t use that primitive shit it uses Anubis like all the cool kids now
I had this problem because the app does a sanity check between your phone clock and your “location”. I changed the clock to match my VPN locale and then worked backward from there.
If you can set the VPN to a place in the same time zone but far outside your actual locale that may work.
I don’t know for certain that this will help but it’s worth a shot.
lemmy.world blocks VPNs. If you have anti-censorship features you can use them to post.
Using VPN right now and posting.
What’s that anti-censorship feature? Is it like a flag you can get on your account or something?
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 just use a VPN server from my own country, which is annoying.
Then switch back to elsewhere when I’m not here.
But what for? ISP tracking? If it’s because of a built-in adblocker, there are apps that do this locally via a local-only vpn.
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.
Lemmy.world, which you log into and is the one that receives your VPN connection, uses Cloudflare in front of their server. So it’s actually Cloudflare that receives your VPN connection. It’s probably giving you that captcha screen which your app can’t display (or being denied entirely). I’m on VPN too and when a link makes me open a .world post it gives me the Cloudflare captcha every time.
Not guaranteed to be this reason but my money’s on it. Try logging into lemmy.world from your browser on the VPN, will help you troubleshoot if it gives nonstandard pages when trying to post or especially when logging in.
That’s not all of Lemmy, just your specific Lemmy instance with those restrictions (lemmy.world).
Talk to lemmy.world admins or sign up to a different Lemmy instance that allows VPN usage.
Because it’s backed by CloudFlare. Why is it backed by CloudFlare? Because it has open registration and gets spammed a lot.
This wouldn’t be a misconfiguration, you have to deliberately enable the VPN blocking feature. Unless someone went in there and started toggling things at random I suppose…
My point was that this is a deliberate choice made by World, and the choice wasn’t made because of Cloudflare being involved.
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
