Comment on Please stop blocking VPNs for established accounts
Alice@hilariouschaos.com 7 months ago“As we cant block posts/comments from younger accounts easily.”
OP " scope to cover only account creation and posts from young accounts."
Wait… so yall automatically do this to all new accounts even if they’re legitimate? Just because they’re new ?
So basically, that means non of their posts or comments show anywhere, they just think everyone can see their stuff, but have no idea they’re stuff is blocked bc their account is new ?
Kinda like reddit you can’t post if you have zero or enough karma right ?
Do y’all let them know that even ?
Rooki@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We activated that rule after the acute CSAM attacks, and many used vpns, and after we did this the CSAM posts dropped.
Everybody in vpn is blocked to post comments or create posts. Not depending on account age.
We are NOT a dark web service where everyone needs to be under tor, vpn, proxy, and back again. We are an public service.
Please, imagine you are a instance hoster, you have either to choose csam ( and legal issues ) or users cant use VPNs.
Zak@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ISPs in some parts of the world spy on users to, for example sell their browsing habits to advertisers and data brokers. That’s a good motivation for some people to browse via VPN by default, not to enable it only when accessing specific sites.
Rooki@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Most people dont understand that vpn providers can and will do that too ( even paid ones ) track you, log you and sell that. So yeah both sides track you.
Zak@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s definitely a concern. I selected my provider (Mullvad) because I know someone who worked there, and I have fairly high confidence they don’t do that.
Alice@hilariouschaos.com 7 months ago
Nah dude, I’m not not advocating to be havin to deal with they csam bullshit.
It’s the main thing we have zero tolerance for on our instance HC.
It’s the primary reason we were not federating in the first place.
So no I don’t expect anyone to put themselves legally at risk for a hobby that doesn’t pay your bills just so I can post my poop and fart questions on shitty ask hilariouschaos lol
But I’m gunna level with you though.
I don’t trust the intentions of most instance admins.
There’s this veil of secrecy and sneakiness there that I just don’t appreciate.
It’s not a way that myself and our other server admin operated.
We’re always straight up and 100% transparent as fuck no matter what till the end. We have no issue telling our users what’s going on and how stuff works if they have questions or if there’s any changes. I’m not saying that to talk shit on you.
And I get that you have to protect yourself that is true yes of course.
I’m just trying to explain why I asked you that question in the first place.
I’m not going to tell you how to run your shit, cuz I wouldn’t like it if you told me that LOL haha but there’s a huge benefit to being unapologetically brutally honest and straightforward and up front.
I don’t know I just feel like there’s some hidden agenda something just doesn’t sit well with me with some other instance admins.
It’s just really fucking weird anyway I hope y’all figure out your stuff.
Thanks for responding
Rooki@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Its the curso of a big instance, we announce stuff gets shit on, doesnt announce it gets shit on, makes a vote gets shit on, makes a friendly survey gets shit on.
We are still trying to announce most of the stuff we do but, some things would have been announcement back and forth because we activated and deactivated one of our harder rules.
Alice@hilariouschaos.com 7 months ago
Yea, sounds like a rock and hard place for sure. Don’t let it bother you anymore so much. There’s only so much you can do, and you can’t please everyone.
I feel like lemmy can kinda become a bit of a whole you get sucked into at times.
Happens to me sometimes. Take a break and step away for a little breather when that happens.
I know it’s hard to do trust me. I’m addicted to technology so I’ll be the first to tell you ha ha
But yea don’t stress yourself out. It’ll be alright
CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 7 months ago
Aren’t there alternatives that could be as effective especially when stacked together? dbzer0 requires users to fill out an application with the following
and have a verified email address before it’s processed.
I think the instance owner has also been developing something to prevent CSAM attacks.
Rooki@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We get a little bit more registrations in an hour than db0 has in a day, thats the reason why we dont do manual registrations.
Yes he does, and we are using it already, but its just his one is for after incident cleanup ( ALREADY BAD ) and the vpn is to stop/reduce that even happen.
But thanks for your suggestions, we sadly cant apply them fully.