@Psyborg @KayKap @girishNaught
even China with the Great Firewall can only (occasionally) restrict Mastodon usage to within the country and a year ago 33 active Chinese instances were monitored from within Europe.
in medium/long term it may be advisable to spread yourselves out amongst instances hosted in other European countries (not just mastodon.social) and be aware of followers only posts and hiding search engine indexing as that makes it more difficult for bad actors to monitor you..