tl;dr - Patreon deleted my page, refused to elaborate, and Catbox is now short $1,300~ in reoccurring income to pay the bill. Support Catbox Here

I use catbox to post videos and moving webp files to lemmy 😭

edit: to be clear I’m not affiliated with catbox, i just shared

  • hisao@ani.socialEnglish
    233·
    3 days ago

    I hate catbox. I can’t see images posted via catbox because for some reason catbox is very actively and aggressively bans VPNs. Yeah, you heard that right: they ban VPNs, not only for posting, even for viewing! I managed to find one VPN server that worked well… for few weeks. Until it got banned as well. Someone once said catbox is a honeypot. Idk about that, but their VPN policy is definitely honeypot-tier.

    Added: What’s even more funny - imgur also used to ban VPNs, but my current server, at the moment I picked it I choose by criteria that both imgur and catbox and some third service should work, and few weeks later imgur still works while catbox don’t, which means catbox bans VPNs more aggressively than imgur! Really makes you hmmmm.

    Added: After reading SatyrSack reply I’m not sure anymore. Maybe it was too rash to blame Catbox. It’s unclear who or what is responsible for the block, maybe neither the source nor the destination.

      • TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Do you use Verizon for Internet? It’s been my experience that the only way I can open catbox links is if I’m not connected solely to Verizon’s network.

    • Wildmimic@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      I don’t know what VPN you use, but i have zero issues running Proton VPN and accessing catbox. Maybe some VPN nodes are used to attack Catbox and they are temp banned?

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    4 days ago

    Now patreon is enshittifying. They sure don’t mind taking their cut from people whose model is shoving things inside themselves though.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    Didn’t this happen a while back? I mean, I’m not saying that the financial issues are resolved, mind.

    EDIT: Ah, yeah, some other people have pointed it out.

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    4 days ago

    You could also set up a page on https://kuno.anne.media/.

    It’s a Monero donation platform, so even if they were to remove your page, the donation wallet you set up for it would still be able to receive donations even without them.