I often use a commercial VPN service, which I suspect is not rare among Lemmy users. Most of the time, I’m able to post to lemmy.world, but on occasion I am not. The default web UI provides zero feedback, just a spinning submit button forever, but if I look in the browser dev tools, I can see it’s being blocked.
I understand that some limitations are necessary to prevent spam and other abuse, however this is a very blunt instrument. The fact that I have a 10 month old account with consistent activity should outweigh any IP address reputation issues.
Perhaps the VPN limitations could be narrowed in scope to cover only account creation and posts from young accounts.
Rooki@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hello @Zak@lemmy.world ,
we understand your frustration, but lemmy doesnt give us any alternative to that, as we cant block posts/comments from younger accounts easily.
The issues with the UI, that it doesnt give any real feedback is, sadly an issue with the LemmyUI, but it will be probably improved in the future.
We are looking into better alternatives to that, but until then we sadly have to stay on our current path.
We will be of course announcing if we found an alternative to that.
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
Thanks for the explanation. It seems I should be proposing improvements to the Lemmy software since the software doesn’t currently support the policy I’m suggesting.