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Please stop blocking VPNs for established accounts (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hello @[email protected] ,

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 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.