Umm from my understanding they handed over their users data some years ago. I think the authorities might’ve asked, you may have to google that.
I’ve been using Mullvad, it’s like $5/mo and their servers are fast. They have servers all over the world. Mullvad did away with port forwarding. This article favors Nordvpn but it depends what your needs are
Or unless your account is “connected” I got one of those messages. I have account that’s been there for over 10/yrs. So I created a 2nd account under a different email address and after 2/yrs they wanted to ban it for something that didn’t make sense.
Maybe connected by device. But my first account they thought I was trying to evade ban so they suspended that account for 7 days. Those mods need to fix their auto mods or something. But eventually Lemmy will be the big thing.