Which forums are you talking about ? Discourse based forums ? Reddit ? Lemmy ?
Reddit will shadowban Tor and VPN users immediately.
Lemmy should be fine is my experience. Note however that Tor circuits can change. For example, a few days in a row I had search engine results thinking I'd come from a certain country and on some sites I was offered to solve reCAPTHAs or blocked for reading things. Then since a few days search engine results think that I come from another country, and I don't have to solve reCAPTCHAs for a site where I had to before. I'm trying to say that it appears that some sites block all Tor but some sites only block some of Tor.
You can manually change the country you appear to come from with Tor browser though this is not recommended.
Using a VPN is an alternative to HYA.
Because it’s decentralised, we don’t have an exact total. Based on data we have
about the largest ActivityPub platforms, particularly Meta/Threads, it’ll be between
170-200million users by the summer of 2024. Ghost will be adding tens-of-millions
more to that total.
Are you working together with anyone else on this?
Yes! Our friends at Buttondown are also building ActivityPub support right now,
and we've received kind offers of help from teams at Mastodon & the ActivityPub
spec authors.
And if that’s the case, should I just always use a VPN? And furthermore,
shouldn’t you have always used a VPN prior to this anyways?
No idea about these USA specific things but always using a VPN would mean that you need to trust your VPN provider more than your ISP and your government. There is only one commercial VPN provider that I trust and one non commercial one. But then there is Tor, and the slower i2p.
You also have to take into account that VPN blocking appears to be increasing.
For all kind of shopping on-line and filling in forms for government related things (Things like let's say e.g. request money support for a wheel chair) I cannot use VPN because they're blocked or worse : time out.
And I found out that lemmy.world likes to block Tor and VPN for posting and uploads. Reading is allowed though. So all in all you have no smooth sailing guaranteed.
openSUSE has German origins, but was bought in the past by Novell in USA, then went into other USA hands, and then it was sold to a Swedish company's German sub division, and located in Luxembourg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_S.A.
Compile it yourself! File a bug report with the software developer! (I'm just the messenger of this post) I've shared the web link of the project for people who dislike having too many Electron based applications on their computer, like people using older hardware. You may be fine with the Electron based one, screen shots of that here : https://delta.chat/en/
I've compiled kdeltachat yesterday and it is different from the default Electron based Deltachat desktop app. At startup it immediately shows a big configuration screen inviting the user to fill in email address, SMTP port and a lot more text fields. The default Deltachat app looks polished and much nicer for "normies". Ignoring and closing that configuration part and it looks like a simple Qt app without much colors so I guess it the app is a work in progress. Maybe I'll provide some screen shots later.
Okay. lemmy.ml works fine for me, never had troubles. The lemmy of Disroot probably won't block Tor.