https://www.dictionary.com/browse/misinformation seems to disagree. I have heard misinformation in both contexts.

I think millennials have a very special position. We grew up with computers but it was during the rougher times. So they had to learn more about how things worked. Then came the easier stuff (smartphones, etc.). So we are mostly digital native but with more depth.

That's an undefined deal.

I find it sustainable. I host my own instances. I can moderate as I seem fit.

Private forums have worked before. We have to relearn how not to have a corporate overlord without soul who moderates only based on law and advertiser friendliness.

But we also have to learn that we are not always welcome on other peoples instances and that's okay. People host these instances and they have opinions. Since it's the fediverse we can try to find a place where we fit in and there is a good chance we still get to talk to everyone else. Mastodon for example has a good way to move to another instance so it's okay to start on a big instance. I'm sure lemmy will get that too some day.

Why would they have a solution? They are the problem. Carbon capture is the dream that we can continue the way we did but without the bad feeling. Not gonna happen. We can't Deus ex machina ourselves out of this shit. We have to work and make sacrifices.

This feels very true

The biggest problem is not getting your application to send mail, but to get the mail into the inboxes of people and not spam. That is what you pay the big providers for. Email is broken in that way. I'd advise you to go for a paid service if you want your emails to reliably arrive.

Dann weiß man wenigstens wen man anschreien kann wenn was nicht klappt

But think of all the IT security you can ignore.

That's a generic top-level domain. It is not associated with any country. It belongs to "Identity Digital Inc.".

I fear that many people are not aware just how public everything in the fediverse is. Everything you post, every comment, every upvote, boost, favorite, like or other interaction is broadcasted to every instance where there is at least on subscriber/follower. Nothing in the fediverse is private. There is no real way to protect from this. You don't even need a real instance for that. You could write a software that subscribes to everything and just takes the data. The fediverse is as public as it can be. It's like standing on a market place and screaming out your thoughts. There is nothing stopping anyone from writing it down. And that is by design.

And I don't mean that in a negative way. It is not really different from all the commercial platforms. They just take the data without you knowing it. Here you are very aware that you don't control anything that you do in public.

The solution is to act accordingly. Use cryptic usernames and don't post anything that can be traced back to you. Be aware that you are in a public space.

Nothing is stopping you. Apart from laws that regulate data collection maybe. IANAL.