Just saying that cars turning right on red have almost run me over as a pedestrian multiple times.

You are the hero that we don't deserve. Except for me, I totally deserve you ;)

We'll take it. The land is valuable, and the current residents will voluntarily flee to the rest of the USA, horrorified by our free healthcare.

"Free" is a simplification. Bad actors can hurt lemmy - however it is also easier for the individual to fight back. If an instance acts unfairly, an individual can choose to ignore that instance and not lose all of Lemmy - they would still have access to all other instances.

For those that need an answer. You can fix the message by unsubscribing and subscribing from the individual community page. It won't work from the Communities listing page

I recommend the free version of VPN of hide.me. I didn't want to pay for VPN and that has worked well for me. Speed is limited after 10gb