Lemmy.world blocks VPNs

Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨DeadNinja@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨support@lemmy.world⁩

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?

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anonymouse@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There are plenty of valid reasons to use a VPN that don’t involve illegal activity. I hope they figure out a better way of addressing this issue.

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dukethorion@lemmy.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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?

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- scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Hmmm, should we universalize that argument? Say, nazis ruined free speech, no more free speech? Criminals ruined the 5th amendment and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, so now cops can beat confessions out of you?
    
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- Fal@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s incredibly trivial to bypass
  
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CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Wow, I feel more justified than ever in leaving World.

First they blocked the piracy communities, then the mushroom/psychedelic communities, and now vpns? No thanks.

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- hal_5700X@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  they blocked the piracy communities
  
  To be fair, they added them back.
  
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baritone_edge@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you own the server then it’s not really anonymizing.
  
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9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Posting this while using Mullvad and Voyager

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dontwakethetrees@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is it only some Mullvad servers that are flagged/blocked? I’ve used quite a few different servers (across North America and the EU) through Mullvad VPN and lemmy.world hasn’t blocked me afaik.

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- DeadNinja@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Good question.
  
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  - NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    @dontwakethetrees@lemmy.world
    
    It’s an old comment, but yes. I’m using NordVPN and it seems the San Francisco server is also blocked from commenting. It results in a 401.
    
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Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Not a lemmy.world user but Mullvad yes.

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EarWorm@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This comment was posted using Voyager and a VPN (SurfShark).

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