One other note: One of the first conversations on here I had was when Ada, the lemmy.blahaj.zone admin, was talking to some gay guy in some Middle Eastern country where content related to homosexuality were banned. The lemmy.blahaj.zone instance was blocked at his country’s network, but he could view the text content from any other home instance (since any accessible home instance on the Threadiverse itself intrinsically basically acts as a proxy for the content on other instances). I remember pointing out that he could tunnel via SSH. His problem was that he couldn’t view images, since the images were hosted on the lemmy.blahaj.zone server, but these days, some lemmy home instances (including my home instance, lemmy.today) automatically locally proxy images posted elsewhere to hide the IP address of their users, so he wouldn’t even have that problem now.
One other note: One of the first conversations on here I had was when Ada, the lemmy.blahaj.zone admin, was talking to some gay guy in some Middle Eastern country where content related to homosexuality were banned. The lemmy.blahaj.zone instance was blocked at his country’s network, but he could view the text content from any other home instance (since any accessible home instance on the Threadiverse itself intrinsically basically acts as a proxy for the content on other instances). I remember pointing out that he could tunnel via SSH. His problem was that he couldn’t view images, since the images were hosted on the lemmy.blahaj.zone server, but these days, some lemmy home instances (including my home instance, lemmy.today) automatically locally proxy images posted elsewhere to hide the IP address of their users, so he wouldn’t even have that problem now.