I haven’t been able to post anything for the last two days. I don’t know if I was banned for a bit or not since I received no notice or warning.
If it wasn’t a ban what happened?
Most likely a VPN issue as Lemmy.world attempts to block vpn users from creating posts/comments.
You can still upvote/downvote though.
Except i don’t run it when I’m on lemmy.
It was probably your instance having issues
Every ban on lemmy is effectively a shadow ban as you don’t get notified for it
Sure about this? I got notification of being banned from the tankie instance for what I think they referred to as western propaganda
Was it from a bot or Lemmy itself? If it was from a bot it doesn’t really count since admins set that feature up themselves, it’s not a part of Lemmy itself.
I cant post if I have protonvpn running, or at least if Im connected to certain proton servers. It could be along those lines - whatever IP you were coming from might be blocked, probably via cloudflare?
I have surfshark but I only run it when I’m torrenting. (since that’s all VPN’s are pretty much good for nowadays.)
VPNs are very useful for many different purposes, just nothing (except torrenting) which you need.
List them. 90% of websites I visit have either reduced features (ie; can’t post or comment) or completely block any access to them when using a VPN.
I don’t think I’ve ever had that issue except for some streaming stuff.
You can search online instead of demanding I list reasons.
You’re the one who made the argument that there were plenty of uses. The onus is on you to back up your suppositions. Not me.
I’m not who you originally asked, but one of the things other than torrenting that I use a VPN for is bypassing arbitrary geo-restrictions on websites. A lot of (mostly US) websites don’t allow you to access them if you aren’t in the country, or in some cases, if you don’t live in the right state.
I’ve used it for that too, but even that’s going away. Pretty soon I think ISP’s (or governments) will clamp down on VPN’s. Or they will make the argument that if you want to use a VPN, then you can only use “THEIR” VPN
This isn’t an academic essay, go look yourself.
It has banning without message. It is possible your ban only showed up in the modlog.
Might be your home instance is having performance issues, resulting in your posts getting timeouts or bad gateway errors.
You getting any specific error messages from your client when you try to post?
How were you “not able to post anything”? If you noticed you weren’t able to post anything (e.g. got an error message), that was (by definition) probably not shadow banning.
I wasn’t getting anything. I would press the post button and it would just endlessly loop and never post.
That isn’t shadow banning, it sounds more like a server (performance?) issue on your instance.
Probably. It’s over now whatever it was.
