See this post. The work is sponsored by the NLnet Foundation

Lemmy core devs are actually employed full time to work on lemmy.

I don’t want to upload anything. Why would they ever not allow that?

Yup, this is the worst thing about ProtonMail. They must patch this. Not being able to use my own GPG encryption when needed is crazy for a private & secure service.

The thing is, unknown instances won’t have large communities. Unless you want to take up the task of populating one? If so, finding or creating the community is the easy part.

Just use the “All” tab, instead of the “Local” one 🤣