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

submitted 2 months ago by Tellore to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's likely Cloudflare related. Some of the larger instances are behind that, but many of the smaller ones aren't. Cloudflare isn't only a problem for VPN users, so its a good idea to avoid those instances as a user. You can still interact with their communities via Federation.

[–] Tellore 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I got 401 from lemmy.world with the following response payload:

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": 403,
    "message": "Posting & Uploading blocked from VPN/Tor"
  }
}

PS: yeah, I know it says it's 403 in payload, but in response it's 401