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Lemmy and VPN - no posting allowed (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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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[–] wolfiedafloof@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have the same issue and same software. However, Lemmy hosting webservers need to have some 'malicious activity protections' and if too much malicious activity occur from the same origin of IP where you are exiting from, you won't be able to post a comment.

I use Mullvad. All I have to do is to reconnect to a different exitpoint (can still be within the same country). And then attempt to post again. Might take a couple of tries, but it will work :)

If you don't want to reconnect, read up if you can configure your VPN to use the SOCKS5 protocol. Easier to not get blocked or "are you a bot?" Captchas and so on.

[–] wolfiedafloof@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

One funny thing, thia exact thing happened me when posting my comment xD