Oooo, juicy. I’m looking forward to seeing how this goes down.
Finally, an article where the Mods get to speak. I’m sick of seeing articles that are full of Spez lies.
According to the Instances list (bottom of page) we are still federated with lemmy.ml. It was lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works that were defederated.
I think the best thing that protesting redditors can do now (if they haven’t already) is delete all of their content on the platform. Not before backing it up to post on Lemmy, of course.
Have you had a look at binhex’s privoxyvpn docker container? Sounds similar to what you’re looking to do.