works fine for me, have you tried factory resetting your device?
just this week I've had multiple random matrix accounts start a chat with me to post an Imgur link with some Hitler bs. I assume they just chose random members of one or more fediverse related public matrix rooms to send that to. they probably just do this with random public rooms and the fediverse relation didn't matter.
that's odd, my (indirect, reported by others) experience with GlobalProtect on Linux was mostly fine, although when using SAML it only really works with the GUI version and not the CLI version
it doesn't seem to be server specific because once prompted there is no way to use the account again, even if you decided to just not use a server that may have these settings set.
no, you're also effectively locked out of any participation unless you provide an email address and phone number, which they won't even tell you about in advance but use dark patterns and gaslighting that they noticed "suspicious activity" to step by step first ask you for an email and then once that is validated they prompt you for a phone number. the only thing they don't do yet is ask for ID.
yes, there are various other browsers still supporting proper ad blocking
who are you referring to with this? afaik neither Linkerbaan nor jimmydoreisalefty are involved in development
reencoding is not required in advance, it happens on the fly if needed.
download still needs to be completed first usually, but you can save a lot of time if you compromise in quality.
this is probably somehow related to changes introduced somewhere in 0.19.4, I've been seeing this for months at this point, as we've been on a 0.19.4 pre-release relatively early due to done federation issues
if you're not community banned you might still be instance banned on the community instance, which wouldn't show up in your local instances modlog if the ban happened on a <0.19.4 instance. if the methods pointed out by other comments here fail I suggest you visit the instance of the community and check the site modlog there, searching for your user.
i suspect you're referring to your post to a lemmy.ml community and you have indeed been instance banned there for a limited amount of time.
I can sell you a copy of lemmys source code, are you interested?
people on mastodon need to mention a lemmy community to post there. you can't see mastodon posts on lemmy unless they're in a community. comments from lemmy are a pretty bad experience on mastodon I believe.
you can enable end to end encryption, it's optional. I don't think it's enabled by default.