• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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      1 day ago

      How odd. I have never heard of .world filtering based on VPN usage, although it’s been some time since I used that instance regularly.

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        17 hours ago

        In my experience, many Lemmy instances block what looks like bot traffic. I don’t think it’s as simple as VPN = blocked, but that’s probably one of the signals they pay attention to. I’ve noticed most comments will fail to post when I’m using Mullvad.

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            15 hours ago

            I’m totally guessing but I’m guessing it’s more similar to:

            • Accessing from a business owned IP: +20% risk of abuse
            • Accessing from C country: +10% risk of abuse
            • The rate that you’re making requests: +5% risk of abuse
            • Etc

            Block if risk of abuse exceeded X%

            I have no idea what I’m talking about, but I can’t imagine these companies aren’t using some pretty advanced detection of bot traffic

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        I can read without issue but more often than not posting comments or indeed posts fails unless I pause for 5 mins.

        E. This went through without disconnecting as an example. Can’t figure out if threshold a pattern

        • io@piefed.blahaj.zoneOP
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          maybe the particular server of the vpn haz problems? have your tried switching that around?