I haven’t had any problems upvoting or accessing lemmy content, but yesterday, whenever I tried leaving a comment on a post, I triggered a 403 error (both from the Mlem app and my browser) which identified the use of VPN as an issue. Once I disabled my VPN, I was able to post the comment.
Now, while trying to make this post, I am experiencing errors too.
Has anyone else experienced this, and have you found work arounds?
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As someone have said, lemmy.world blocks VPNs.
But I’m curious, why are you sometimes using VPN, but other times exposing your real IP? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose, since your instance admins would still have your real IP, once you have accessed your account from your real IP, even once.
Either use VPN all the time, or just don’t bother. A half-assed approach doesn’t really do anything.
I only turned it off to verify it was responsible for the issue. Otherwise, yeah, it’s always on. Didn’t realize instances could block VPNs or even identify they were in use.
Use an instance that does not block VPN.
I think it depends on which community (instance) you’re trying to post. Some instances are blocking VPNs, e.g. lemmy.world. I assume you’ve already tried but try switching to a different VPN server.
Lemmy. world blocks VPNs - https://lemmy.world/post/12979118
Gotcha, thanks for the info!
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