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Any well-established Lemmy instances that publicly allow posting from VPNs? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by Tellore@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Basically the subject is in title. I recently discovered lemmy.world doesn't allow commenting/posting from VPNs. Some VPNs are working, but it seems to be a matter of time until they appear on publicly sourced lists and banned.

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[–] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I use a VPN 24/7 and I haven't had any issues with Lemmy for posting/commenting. I know reddit fully blocks my VPN with some IP addresses unless I use old.reddit, which is part of why I've just had it and left.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I was just going to say that. On VPN always, Reddit blocks pretty much all of my VPNs IPs, but this is the first time I hear of it happening in any Lemmy instance. I'm on lemmy.ml using NordVPN.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah same here, I'm on lemmy.ml using Mullvad and never had an issue. If an instance ever did block it though I'd just leave, that's also why I never use reddit anymore lol.