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@graf @phnt @ins0mniak @p @madonline >they provide socks, http proxies, you get it all
They don't do Shadowsocks/VLESS or any of the other DPI-evading protocols; I think xeovo.com are the only one who do if you don't count various Telegram-advertised shady services that die within one month. Still, better to make your own, there's no practical benefit to paid VPN services over your own on some VPS aside from being able to switch locations on the whim.
@graf @phnt @ins0mniak @p @madonline Checks out; RKN isn't craling the whole Internet for seditious materials and relies on snitching form, so it might've been some funnyman reporting your instance to every authority they could find. Same reason the Farms got blocked for Santa Hitler image (which ended up in federal list of extremist materials for whatever reason).
@pista @phnt @ins0mniak @p @graf @madonline I think most just use Xray with protocols that mimic legitimate HTTPS traffic, often routed through various CDNs. This is less effective in Russia since they're just blanket banning entire "high-risk" ASNs if you do as much as initiate a connection that looks suspicious to them; Hetzner and OVH are among them, traffic gets dropped after 16kb or so. This includes even torrent DHT so I can't access a good chunk of technical resources without some kind of proxy.

a lot of my issue was I always took things as personal attacks because when we came into the fedi scene we came with like 2k people immediately and a lot of people were not impressed with the twitter people and would say harmful things or try to rile me up and I just got so used to it that it was my default response. even to my irl gf sometimes. it has taken a lot of time and getting used to people for me to open up and calm down and i am glad i can build these connections now. be open with people and build friendships