Sorry, i'm chiming in a few days late @throwaway09380 ...but my buddy in China would always tell me how people in China are quite comfortable leveraging VPNs. T

Sorry, i'm chiming in a few days late @throwaway09380 ...but my buddy in China would always tell me how people in China are quite comfortable leveraging VPNs. They're used to the blocks to many services so folks have skills trying VPNs. Also as mentioned by @Canada, maybe try tailscale. I don't have experience myself, but have heard great things about tailscale! That being said, separate of the vpn approach, i would encourage you to give matrix a try. And, if its true that the Element client gets blocked, there are plenty of other decent clients. True, that none of the other clients are as feature-riuch as Element currently...but for the basics, the other clients might be ok enough. I like SchildiChat and Fluffychat myself, but I've heard good buzz around Cinny. Here's a list of clients for web, desktop, mobile, etc.: https://matrix.org/clients/ https://matrix.org/clients/ Oh, and if Element is in fact getting blocked, and it has to do with some connections to matrix.org...then self-hosting a matrix homeserver, but using a different client (not Element), should most assuredly circumvent that issue...though i remain unconvinced that this is a factual issue. Good luck!