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.

  • Alice@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Yea, sounds like a rock and hard place for sure. Don’t let it bother you anymore so much. There’s only so much you can do, and you can’t please everyone.

    I feel like lemmy can kinda become a bit of a whole you get sucked into at times.

    Happens to me sometimes. Take a break and step away for a little breather when that happens.

    I know it’s hard to do trust me. I’m addicted to technology so I’ll be the first to tell you ha ha

    But yea don’t stress yourself out. It’ll be alright