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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.zone 4 points 4 days ago

maybe the particular server of the vpn haz problems? have your tried switching that around?

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah its usually certain ip addreses that got abused and are now flagged

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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