I am unable to access the website without a VPN. My original IP is from a country in Asia.

Is this a temporary lockdown? It is a hassle to turn on VPN just for browsing Lemmy on my phone since my other most-used apps do not play well with a VPN. On a laptop, it is not much of an issue. But this will severely limit the time I peruse Lemmy.

Alternatively, I could use my lemmy.world alt, but I will lose access to dbzer0 specific communities.

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[–] 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

We've been battling bot scraping a bit, and your ip might have been caught in the mix. Can you reach out via direct message or matrix chat with your ip so we can clear that up?

I help db0 out with the sites and can help, or reach out to the folks in https://matrix.to/#/%23faf-appeals:anarchist.nexus

db0 or I should be able to get you sorted.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Thank you for responding and offering technical support. I am able to access the instance without a VPN. I changed nothing on my end, besides turning off the VPN.

    Please let me know if I should still share you my IP via direct message.

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  • [–] 2 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

    If you are not blocked anymore, then I suspect db0 solved the issue with some tweaks.

    No need if you aren't seeing trouble anymore. Pleaser don't hesitate to reach out if things look blocked again!

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  • dbzer0 is physically hosted in Germany. Spitballing here, but it is likely that the EU host provider rate limits or bans certain IP blocks from "high risk" areas like Asia.

    Even from the US like myself the site will frequently just.... Not load properly across the Atlantic.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    I also seem to have difficulties when I forget to turn on my VPN in Europe. I just figured it was imperial bullshit.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    I am accessing db0 from tor, no issue on my end

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  • I have no issues from Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, or Philippines, which country are you from?

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