Update on this: I managed to get Blorp working by running it in another browser using Mullvad’s proxy and setting it a server in the same country I have my vpn set to, no clue why it works but it seems to

It’s nice for you that the instances being blocked just so happen to be ones you don’t like, but did you not consider that there’s probably alot of people who don’t have issues with those instances and don’t find them toxic. Your personal blocklist is there so you can curate your own feed, and that is not what the instance blocklist is for and they aren’t and shouldn’t be treated like the same thing. Tldr, just block an instance in your personal blocklist and move on, no need to make it everyone else’s problem.

Yeah this is true for a good amount of proprietary software but not really for most Foss software, which I mostly use now

I think there’s no problem unless you can’t opt out of them, automatic updates are convenient for a lot of people like me, who forgets to check for updates to things

I think option 1 would be better, its not much of a hassle to click on a post and vote it and it’s more convenient to have everything in 1 place no matter how many accounts you have

Yeah I understand this is probably more of a zip issue. I’ve already made a post in the zip support community and I’ve gotten a new response from another zip admin asking to clarify what the issue is, hope they can sort things out. Thank you for trying to help out here, really appreciate it. Here’s some screenshots showing what’s going on if it helps (they’re both from blorpblorp.xyz and show me trying to use the web ui when on a VPN. I can’t log in over a VPN in the first one and in the other content doesn’t load over the vpn)

https://media.piefed.zip/posts/zN/Gk/zNGktRw0MyBvMby.jpeg

https://media.piefed.zip/posts/Xz/Dp/XzDpFf8WzEjJkFz.png

Yes although the page does load, but no content does

Here’s what i get when trying to use a vpn on browser (I used blorpblorp.xyz here but blorp.piefed.zip does the same thing). I use Mullvad vpn incase it helps.

Edit: I tested with Voyager’s web ui and it had the issue of not being able to login over a vpn, but, it was able to load content once logged in over a vpn just fine. I also tried with the mobile clients Thunder and Interstellar and neither had issues logging in and loading content over a vpn. I’m not sure what’s going on but I hope it’s possible to solve

Agree with the .zip instances, it’s nice to not randomly lose access to communities over instance drama

I’ve tried in the Mac app and I tried clearing cache and it still is having the same issue on vpns