I understand Lemmy doesn't provide a way to fuse multiple signals like the combination of a high-reputation account with a low-reputation IP address and it would be too much to ask volunteer server admins to develop their own. I'm OK with that answer. I don't expect to dictate the terms by which they give me free services.

The part I didn't like was their dim view of the fact that Mullvad actually provides privacy to its users. I believe private internet access is valuable to the world even if it enables some harms.