Just use any VPN, Mullvad is nice.
You can also set up WireGuard on a random VPS you bought but like that's somewhat risky-ish.
Lemmy for us was very broken, having many bugs. Kbin works a lot better, even though we had some issues with federation. Overall, the platform itself is quite nice and smaller communities are still fun!
Hi, I'm a high schooler who does programming and works with servers.