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VPN and Tor use on the lemmy verse, is it banned ? (self.privacy)

submitted 10 months ago by anticurrent to c/[email protected]

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Hi, I have noticed for three days now not being able to post comments from my Lemmy.world account while connected via Tor (I was left waiting for a spinning wheel )! I thought at first It might be a problem with LW servers but after three days, I concluded they are banning Tor and VPN users from posting, I Have found a user post on their help community about VPN and tor ban.

then I tried signing-up to lemm.ee but was greeted with a couldflare of non ending page reload after solving captcha. so I created this account hoping to test this instance and ask Lemmy users with privacy concerns about where this is headed and should we expect the rest of Lemmy instances to go the way of reddit and entirely ban users behind proxies ?

The fact that very big instances hold the majority of the communities and discussions on lemmy and the fediverse in general is concerning. and adopting tactics like shadow banning and dark patterns is concerning as well. I dropped reddit for the same practices and I will drop Lemmy if it carries on like this.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Only instances using cloudflare won't work.

[–] anticurrent 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But commenting using a LW account used to work a week ago, they must have actively changed something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Each time you start your Tor browser after having closed it, it could be using a different Tor circuit, isn't it ? Maybe the Lemmy instances you're using only blocked a few IP addresses that are Tor based. You can check what you are using each time, clicking on the circuit icon next to the lock icon in the Address bar.

[–] anticurrent 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On LW I have been trying for over 3 days, and restarted the browser many times, cleaned the identity, changed the circuits many times as well. I am not concerned about that account. I just wasn't expecting it to catch up with the fediverse this quickly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Oh.That's too bad :(