Isn't this just Teams in its normal state?

I'm not sure, that's the one reason I use Instagram also. You could use something like MyInsta, which blocks ads and I think lets you disable shit like Reels. You could also try using an RSS feed with proxygram, although I've found the public instances to be unreliable and I'm not sure if it still works. Otherwise, you're going to need to somehow convince them to use a certain Mastodon instance instead (offering to host one for your local area might make people more interested, but even then good luck with that).

The Cromite devs said they use ABP instead of uBO because it's in C++ instead of JavaScript so they can easily implement it, it also has patches to remove some of the weirder stuff

I don't think it's a big concern, if a big instance does something stupid people will just move to a different one, and people will also naturally move to instances with communities and moderation policies they prefer over time which will help spread things out

Last I checked they seemed to give up on decentralization as well

We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!

I can't decide whether this is hilarious or terrifying

My guess is that it's a neo-Nazi thing, so his promoting right-wing American politics (his largest userbase) is probably intentional and not just him being stupid

Considering how he runs a business whose goal is to capture the privacy crowd and how a large portion of the privacy crowd is made up of those "Libertarian" tech-bro types, it might be more than just "no clue about American politics", especially since he's also doing stuff like promoting Bitcoin through Proton Wallet which is also popular among "Libertarian" tech-bro types, and the article used for marketing that both-sidesed the problems the "left" vs "right" experience and equated the Democrats with the "left", which is popular among "Libertarian" tech-bro types as well. The 88 in his Reddit username is also suspect regardless of him claiming that it's there because it's his birth year. People who know how to operate a business usually aren't doing it out of stupidity, so I'm not going to give him the benefit of the doubt on this, especially since the entire platform depends on trusting that they aren't doing anything shady.

the comments in that thread is such a reddit moment

Call them "communities", not "instances", that might work better

For me the main use case for LibreWolf isn't so much being anonymous as it is wanting a browser that doesn't have ads and data mining stuff going on and has some additional privacy protections but that also doesn't get in the way too much in terms of usability. Zen Browser might be a better fit for this use case now since it improves the UI while claiming to not have telemetry, but I haven't tried it yet. I'm not really concerned about fingerprinting since most sites I use already know who I am since I'm logged into them. If I wanted to be really private though I'd use Tor or Mullvad, but not as a daily driver since I value UX more as long as it's not invasive.

On default settings, Firefox's news feed is suspiciously similar to the stuff I browse, so I don't trust it at all for privacy without Arkenfox. I like how LibreWolf strips all of that out by default but still lets me loosen the settings so I can install add-ons and keep data I want stored, which I'm not sure that Mullvad browser does. If it's getting behind on updates though, that would be disappointing, although right now the LW Flatpak is on a newer version of FF than Fedora FF. Mullvad browser is better for anonymity though.