Context:
Elon Musk’s X has instructed staff not to suspend users that post explicitly racist, sexist and homophobic content, or who send sexual material to another person, as part of a new policy that has radically stripped back the company’s moderation of abusive material.
X is so fucked.
You know how if your email app stops working you can just install another one and still communicate with anyone else with an email address? The fediverse is like that except it's not email it's twitter and reddit and YouTube all rolled into one. So if twitter was part of the fediverse when Musk bought it and destroyed it you could move to another server with a better moderation policy and pick up where you left off.
A convicted rapist (also charged with 91 other felonies) running for president, with as much chance as winning as the other guy.
Egypt already has 12 million homeless people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_homeless_population
1.2 out of 10 people in Egypt is homeless.
Jordan, with a population of 11 million people, already has 2.1 million Palestinian refugees and 1.4 million Syrian refugees.
Those countries are in no position to help.
Look elsewhere for solutions.
Interesting that Zoom is not making an attempt to build features that increase trust, enable innovation and encourage robust debates in their app. Seems like a missed opportunity.
The ActivityPub protocol makes it possible, but most apps only make use of the pieces of ActivityPub that suit them. For example, in Lemmy they lean heavily on the Group actor type as the basis for Communities, which Mastodon doesn't use at all. Peertube creates content using the Video activity type, while Mastodon only creates content in the form of a Note activity. Lemmy produces a lot of Link activities, which get rendered into a Note when viewed in Mastodon. And so on.
It's all a work in progress and I'm confident integration will get better over time. The framework is there.
Kbin has limited support for Mastodon posts but it's UI is still very much focused on the reddit-style functionality.
Recently I was doing some Azure integration work, with OAuth, Teams and Outlook. At one point I noticed that logging in with a MS account causes my browser to do ~10 redirects between different services while downloading over 30 MB of Javascript and thought "Huh, this looks like decades of technical debt. Either MS devs are waaay smarter than me or this is a pile of garbage". I guess both could be true.
Instances with
more than one admin
clear policies and active moderation
engaged user base
regular backups
no porn
...will stand a better chance than most.
Firefish is federated so you're not limited to content and people on Firefish. You can see Mastodon (and Akkoma, and Lemmy, etc etc) content inside Firefish.
Proton Mail has been around for a long time and has a good reputation.
If you want to try self-hosting email (lol), mailcow is supposed to be very easy to set up.
There are over 70 kbin instances. If kbin.social is not to your liking, you can find another. https://fedidb.org/software/kbin
https://kglitch.social has defederated from Meta (well, blocked the domains that meta is expected to use). Registrations are open.
If going vegan is too much for you, just stop eating beef and switch to soy milk.
The emissions per calorie from beef are way way higher than any other form of meat.