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Lemmy and VPN - no posting allowed (europe.pub)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by patruelis@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] patruelis@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Why is this? Why no VPN for Lemmy.world?

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago

Probably spam.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because it’s backed by CloudFlare. Why is it backed by CloudFlare? Because it has open registration and gets spammed a lot.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The two are unrelated.

Edit: I mean cloudflare and the vpn block.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A misconfigured cloudflare would definitely be related

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

Yes. If they enable that, it's a misconfiguration

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

that's another good question for the admins.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

CIA