Some instances at least will proxy the images requests, naking all traffic appears to be from your home instance but it's not a guarantee. We had to turn it off because of some issues early during the rollout, we'll look into turning it back on soon.
I really hope that governments adopt the ActivityPub standard + RSS whenever possible, and allow users to subscribe to these feeds from the instance or software of their choice.
But tariffs goes into the government's pocket, don't they want a small govt? Oh wait, it's just to trickle down the money to their billionaire friends, my bad.
The only place where I struggle is finding the perfect player. On PC I use iptvnator and on Android I use IPTV Pro. They work well enough, but I wish I had a universal app that could carry the configuration between devices.
What is the username? We usually only receive the application registration form in our queue once the email has been verified through the verification link.
EDIT: Found the user based on the Reddit username, manually set the email_verified value to TRUE, then approved the registration form.
And I enjoy being a Linux nerd, so suck it Grok.