Lemmy.world blocks VPNs
Lemmy.world blocks VPNs
Basically the title. I use MullVad, and recently discovered that Lemmy.world is not allowing me to submit new posts or commenting on others' posts if I have my VPN on.
For now I have excluded my Lemmy client of choice (Voyager) from my VPN, so things are back to normal.
As a reason behind this, I read elsewhere that this blocking of VPN is intentional as certain people posted CSAM while behind VPN. This is pretty despicable, so I totally support shutting those people out.
However, on that same note, I think it is fair to assume that every post and comment on Lemmy is stored along with the IP address of the User. Is that right?
Edit : Some readers are confirming that they can write posts and comments in Lemmy.world while on a VPN - and I wholeheartedly thank them. I only posted what I personally (and some other lemmings as well) experienced. I still do not know if this is a widespread problem or only happening to a few.
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I disagree with the VPN ban, but I understand the purpose.
Isn't there a better way? Is there a back end that can be added to scan uploads for matching CSAM hashes?
Admins are doing both. (Am an admin of another instance, not lemmy.world).
Fact is is that the people who ask for privacy behind the VPN are very flippant when it comes to actual attacks. Everyone is pretty quick to forget the CSAM and spam attacks that were happening only a couple of weeks ago.
I used to think "Yeah go privacy, go anonymous", but the fact is that bad actors ruined that for everyone else, so yeah, had to clamp down. For anyone who disagrees, I welcome them to host their own instance where they can allow anyone and anything. They can take up the fight with their respective governments, I'm going to focus on the people who are just here to hang out and chill.
That's incredibly trivial to bypass