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submitted 11 months ago by to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 18 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Amusingly I had to disable my vpn to post this

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    How odd. I have never heard of .world filtering based on VPN usage, although it's been some time since I used that instance regularly.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    I can read without issue but more often than not posting comments or indeed posts fails unless I pause for 5 mins.

    E. This went through without disconnecting as an example. Can't figure out if threshold a pattern

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    In my experience, many Lemmy instances block what looks like bot traffic. I don’t think it’s as simple as VPN = blocked, but that’s probably one of the signals they pay attention to. I’ve noticed most comments will fail to post when I’m using Mullvad.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah its usually certain ip addreses that got abused and are now flagged

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    I’m totally guessing but I’m guessing it’s more similar to:

    • Accessing from a business owned IP: +20% risk of abuse
    • Accessing from C country: +10% risk of abuse
    • The rate that you’re making requests: +5% risk of abuse
    • Etc

    Block if risk of abuse exceeded X%

    I have no idea what I’m talking about, but I can’t imagine these companies aren’t using some pretty advanced detection of bot traffic

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