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Lemmy and VPN - no posting allowed
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this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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I had the same problem when I was on lemmy.world. now I'm on this other instance dbzero and it's mostly smooth except for sometimes things glitch so I turn off my VPN to troubleshoot and then it works for a while, especially some thumbnail pictures won't load in the post with my VPN on, but lately I've been too lazy to toggle my VPN off, I usually just give up on posts when the photo won't load.
I've had the same experience.
The problem is always with posts done on a specific instance, so it's probably still instance related, maybe the pictures on posts in that instance not being passed around as pictures but rather as a link back to that instance and it's the instance that is blocking some VPN exit points (which is why sometimes if you reconnect the VPN it fixes - reconnecting usually changes the exit point and only some exit points are blocked).