That’s not usually how it works. Sites ban and block IP addresses. Someone going through your VPN caused such issues that Lemmy.world blocked the IP. The VPN is being used to abuse people. That’s not a VPN’s fault, but the nature of the beast.

I personally don’t think a VPN is even necessary with the Fediverse, as none of us are going to collect IP’s. But try changing the VPN’s location or trying a different VPN.

My guess is that the IP got flagged. In my personal experience, around 70% of VPN servers in California don’t let me post on Lemmy for some reason so I just avoid that area entirely at this point. Unfortunately, shitty people use VPNs to do shitty things too.

idk man, sh.it just .works here 👀

(use another instance lmao)

I hit the same issue a couple weeks ago. I wonder if it’s tied to the Fediverse Chick thing or people who were spamming CSAM

Not really an answer, but lassaiz-fair approach with VPN/Tor for a community like this is just a call for disaster.

Can’t have nice things. Can’t really complain either imo. Thats’s just how the world is.

For me it works when I log out/log in while connected to the VPN. But sometimes when I’m at a different access point and my routing changes, it goes back to me not being able to comment.

I dunno, but since the Threadiverse is federated, you can post on any community on lemmy.world (or elsewhere) that a federated instance can see by just creating an account on that instance.

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/

https://mbin.fediverse.observer/

I mean, there are plenty of public instances out there to choose from.

EDIT: If @dsilverz@calckey.world is correct that it’s some issue that CloudFlare is taking with the exit address on the VPN, you can check whether a given instance is using CloudFlare by running whois on its IP address.

For lemmy.today:

$ host lemmy.today
lemmy.today has address 5.78.97.5
[snip]
$ whois 5.78.97.5|grep -i ^netname
netname:        CLOUD-HIL

Not using CloudFlare.

for lemmy.world:

$ host lemmy.world
lemmy.world has address 104.26.9.209
[snip]
$ whois 104.26.9.209|grep -i ^netname
NetName:        CLOUDFLARENET
$

Using CloudFlare.