Your choices, man. But I recommend you visit nyaa.si only or AnimeTosho cached pages for Nyaa.

That's why Secure DNS exists. Also, if you don't want to use vpn, there's AnimeTosho, right? :)

Anyway, nyaa.si for nyaa. anything else should be avoided.

I use a VPN, and nyaa.si still only works ~50% of the time for me. Which is why I use nyaa.land, which works 99.99% of the time.

There's pros and cons to using a VPN. Cons would include being inconvenient - not everyone wants to tunnel their entire connection just to access one website. You also may have to maintain a paid subscription, which isn't everyone's cup of tea.

Don't know what you mean by "malicious mirror", but I've been using nyaa.land for a year or two and never had any issues. There are other mirrors you can try like nyaa.iss.one or nyaa.eu, but nyaa.land is my personal favorite.

No, learn to use vpn or secure DNS and visit nyaa.si only. (You don't need to be tech savvy, Google is your friend.)

Malicious mirror

Try nyaa.land. I also have issues accessing nyaa.si, some days it works, some days it doesn't. Not sure why but nyaa.land always seems to work for me though.

I don't know when it happened, but thanks for adding cached versions of source site pages! nyaa is blocked in my country, and nyaa has seemed to be hostile to tor and all the group proxies I've tried.