It's all about risks vs benefits. You can open up your domain for more users, but that also can make you potentially liable for what other users do with your domain from law enforcement if something nasty happened.

I would have to find a way to keep them on without needing a battery inserted.

I'm also against blocking proxies, but we the privacy minded folks are a minority that actually uses vpn or tor for everyday internet browsing. There are lots of bots and malicious actors using our resources to spam large instances, and if I were managing a popular fediverse instance, I too would have been forced to consider blocking vpn/tor, even if I didn't want it.

Yes, I suppose given equal input (model, keyword, seed, etc.) two Stable Diffusion installs should output same images; what I am curious about is whether the hardware configuration (e.g. gpu manufacturers) could result in traceable variations. As abuse of this tech gains prominence, tracing back the producer of a certain synthetic media by the specific hardware combination could become a thing.

I couldn't get past "Firewalled" stage when I tried i2p. Too slow for me back then.

Laws being made in good faith and corporations taking advantage of ambiguities or loopholes for "compliance" has been the staple of western corporate lore. I'm sure many of those commenters would love replaceable batteries with usb-c port on their phones too.

What is this exactly achieving?