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

submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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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[–] lazylemons@lemmy.today 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

As others have said it is based on instance. I get why some have instances have the restriction though.

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

I get why some have instances have the restriction though.

I get it too.

Which is why I so fucking hate ppl, companies, govs, w/e who abuse services. When it gets bad enough, it makes the service clamp down. And that means loss of privacy for everyone. Even the ppl not abusing it.

TBF I don't know what will prevent the more open Lemmy instances from that fate. Today, Lemmy flies under the radar. Too small for anyone to notice or care. Too tiny to be target for mass disinfo campaigns. Or shitty influencers to infest and take it over. But if it gets big enuf... it'll have the same probs. There are probs that aren't do to the algorithms on reddit or w/e. Some come from sheer scale. Humans gotta ruin everything nice.