Proton VPN Linux support isn’t as clean ootb. I used a docker image that supported vpns (with transmission) that works well and basically just uses the VPN for torrenting by providing an .ovpn config

Wouldn’t those be rays?

That’d be the same line, no?

You may not notice federation lag, where comments don’t appear in your instance for some time in comparison to their native or a more populous instance.

Afaik the only way to tell is to pull up the same thread from different origin instances and compare.