That's a bummer that CSAM is still being posted. I get that y'all need to stop the people posting it immediately, and I agree with whatever you need to do to make that happen. However, I hope you can find a solution later down the road that allows VPN users to continue fully interacting with the site.

I hope there's a useful error message, that could be very annoying to troubleshoot.

I realise that as individuals without the huge resources of a business your options are limited. I also have a lot of sympathy with the admins and mods being exposed to that shit. I don't know what the answer is but I don't think blanket silencing all users who care about their privacy is a solution.

Opera browser (with data saving on) is now blocked since your (this one) change.

P.S. : this post should be pinned to the entire site (not only to this community).

How detailed is .world's IP logging? I'm sure many privacy-minded users think that's important to know before disabling their VPNs.

Additionally, would it be possible to allow posts/comments that don't have any links or images? Or does even that introduce too much risk?

It is so annoying that lemmy.world politics community is not about world politics. Either make it not only-US or rename it to US politics.

Since lemmy.world is on cloudflare, a worker function could disallow images in comments (or POST to any of the routes that create content) from those IP ranges. I assume the driver here is CSAM and other problematic imagery.

That’s such a lazy and irresponsible stance to take. If I get blocked from commenting because I value my privacy, it’ll be goodbye lemmy.world.