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

  • Dæmon S.@calckey.world
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    1 day ago

    @HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world

    lemmy.world uses Cloudflare. I particularly don’t use VPNs, but I see the CAPTCHA whenever I use mobile data (Brazilian mobile carriers) instead of my fiber optic internet to access lemmy.world (I access lemmy.world alongside other Lemmy instances, as a guest (without account) in order to read the threadiverse, as my Fediverse account is hosted by a Sharkey/Calckey instance).

    The fact that lemmy.world uses Cloudflare seems to be the main reason why it’s refusing your VPN. Cloudflare is particularly stubborn with VPNs. Doesn’t seem to have anything to do with lemmy.world per se (although I’m aware the webmaster can configure things on Cloudflare, including the conditions to trigger the CAPTCHA).