Just wanted to keep everyone in the loop. If you encounter an issue where you cannot post or comment, but voting is functioning correctly, it is most likely because we have implemented a block for VPN & Tor users. If you are using these services, you can still take part in activities such as voting, reporting posts, and performing other passive actions on the site. We implemented this restriction because of users posting illegal content.
See https://lemmy.world/post/11571711
While we value our users’ right to privacy, we also prioritize the protection of both ourselves and our users. We want to emphasize that we weigh the pros and cons of restrictions like these with the entire team. We do not take these actions lightly, and we hope everyone understands the reasoning behind it.
I love that I have to split tunnel and expose my privacy just to post on lemmy
It is so annoying that lemmy.world politics community is not about world politics. Either make it not only-US or rename it to US politics.
I hope there’s a useful error message, that could be very annoying to troubleshoot.
We did include a meaningful response body to help.
I image with how techy and fos lemmy tends to be, I’m sure there’s a ton of people using VPNs, so a lot of people will probably run into that issue.
I realise that as individuals without the huge resources of a business your options are limited. I also have a lot of sympathy with the admins and mods being exposed to that shit. I don’t know what the answer is but I don’t think blanket silencing all users who care about their privacy is a solution.
The concern is valid but “You can’t post from behind a VPN” and “I’m being silenced” are two very different things.
That’s a bummer that CSAM is still being posted. I get that y’all need to stop the people posting it immediately, and I agree with whatever you need to do to make that happen. However, I hope you can find a solution later down the road that allows VPN users to continue fully interacting with the site.
Indeed. I don’t use the Internet at all without a VPN connected. These days you can’t possibly be blocking people for that reason. There are other ways to find child porn or whatever. Like calling the authorities.
I don’t use the Internet at all without a VPN connected.
Wait. Then how did you write that comment??
VPNs usually add IPs all the time.
Understandable. Hopefully that can be removed via some reputation level based checks in the future.
