When did lemmy.world start clamping down on VPNs?

https://lemmy.world/post/43898917

When did lemmy.world start clamping down on VPNs? - Lemmy.World

Today, for the first time on Lemmy, I received a message about posting being forbidden from VPNs.

I dunno, but since the Threadiverse is federated, you can post on any community on lemmy.world (or elsewhere) that a federated instance can see by just creating an account on that instance.

piefed.fediverse.observer

lemmy.fediverse.observer

mbin.fediverse.observer

I mean, there are plenty of public instances out there to choose from.

EDIT: If @[email protected] is correct that it’s some issue that CloudFlare is taking with the exit address on the VPN, you can check whether a given instance is using CloudFlare by running whois on its IP address.

For lemmy.today:

$ host lemmy.today lemmy.today has address 5.78.97.5 [snip] $ whois 5.78.97.5|grep -i ^netname netname: CLOUD-HIL

Not using CloudFlare.

for lemmy.world:

$ host lemmy.world lemmy.world has address 104.26.9.209 [snip] $ whois 104.26.9.209|grep -i ^netname NetName: CLOUDFLARENET $

Using CloudFlare.

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