because it’s easier to get around with a vpn, but if it’s at the software level it wouldn’t be as easy. They could make it so only France approved browsers could be downloaded.

Reddit is a lot of peoples only form of community, especially if it’s obscure interests. Without it your more or less trapped in your local area.

Peertube, is a good alt, https://joinpeertube.org/en_US it works of bittorrent to save on bandwidth and federation is used to save storage space.

It would be interesting if we could get people to consider alternatives like peertube as a livestreaming platform.