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

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    1 day ago

    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.

    https://piefed.fediverse.observer/

    https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/

    https://mbin.fediverse.observer/

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

    EDIT: If @dsilverz@calckey.world 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.