Nia [she/her]

For average use not really assuming the VPN is reliable and trustworthy, if by average you mean just regular day to day browsing.

When you start getting into the territory of doing stuff that would actually get investigated, it has some benefits like having a little bit of protection from possibly backdoored servers, MITM, etc.

Best place would likely be their Github issues section, here’s the one for Lemmy backend/server, and here’s the one for Lemmy-ui for UI/frontend requests which is what you’re looking for.

My main question is if there are plans to allow users per-account to filter out all communities from a specific instance from /all. There are some instances I don’t really have an issue with and don’t mind chatting with people on it, but the general theme of the instance isn’t posts I want to see on my all feed (Ex: porn) and just disabling NSFW doesn’t help because there a lot of non-porn NSFW posts that I still want to see. Defederating or moving instances to one that defederates from them also isn’t a solution, because I don’t mind seeing other content from the users on the instances.

I feel like this will improve everyone’s user experience, because a user can avoid content they don’t want to always see, but not have it be an all-or-nothing kind of thing.

Edit: This question was answered here https://lemmy.ml/comment/2352489