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.
Lemmy has nothing in its code that blocks VPNs. Unfortunately a lot of instances use cloudflare and other man-in-the-middle services that do block VPNs.
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.
Does .World think it’s their content?
One of many reasons to change instances
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I left lemmy.world for these reasons. Haven’t had any issues with lemmy.ml yet though 👍
I tried to switch, but I had an issue with dbzer0 not marking posts as read which didn’t work out for me.
Hmmm
Are you sure its not an app issue? (I use web UI btw, its flawless, zero bugs)
You can also try the other ones I’ve mentioned, they look great (even if the sh.itjust.works name is a bit goofy)
It’s likely a bug with the app as I use Sync, though it only occurs with dbzer0, 1 of 3 of my accounts.
I used to have the same issue with lemmy.world - it’s the instance
This is it! Instance blocks it.
.world is a fickle bitch in general. It would be good if more users and communities balanced out amongst other instances.
I just reconnect and hope for an unflagged IP lol
