VPN and Tor use on the lemmy verse, is it banned ?

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.

WhatsHerBucket,
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Late to the party, but what was your solution OP?

I’m currently weighing my options, that’s how I found this post :)

anticurrent,

change instance, try smaller instances, like https://sh.itjust.works/ or https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/

wizardbeard,

I’d be shocked if the dbzer0 (piracy) instance blocked it.

I’d also expect that this has more to do with cloudflare than the specific instances.

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