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.
man-in-the-middle services
*Threat actors
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?
They host it, so they can do as they please.
Vote with your feet.
Aye good to know some instances block VPNs , didn’t know that. As a user from China who has to use a VPN always that would be problematic. Guys I got lucky with my instance.
Shit really just works
Don’t use Lemmy.world server it is the regime front on fedi.
