This is a good point, and I hope each instance feels comfortable asking for a little bit of help on that front every so often. I imagine lots of people would be willing to donate a little to keep their Lemmy server alive.

So, I signed up with the lemmy.ml server(?) Should I scrap this account and sign on with an EU one?

How would one join a EU-based instance? VPN? Or is it the link I use?