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Lemmy and VPN - no posting allowed (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by 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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[–] 15 points 5 months ago*

LW makes an effort to block posting from public VPNs because it also has open registration, and there's not really much else that can be done to prevent a particularly belligerent spammer/troll from just repeatedly registering accounts. This was put in place after a particularly bad spate of it.

I'm not especially pleased about it, but I understand why it's happened

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