Is this a ban on default servers’ connectivity, or a protocol-wide ban? Because if it is the former, Russian users could pass a list of self-hosted SMP and XFTP servers that they can manually put in, rotate and use as necessary, no?
Granted, would be ‘cumbersome’ and not an out-the-box experience, but it certainly is a workaround, along with the SOCKS proxy support in latest beta release.
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