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The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.

Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.

America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.

America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.

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Torn on Signal and BlueSky (feddit.org)

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I am torn on how to handle both Signal and BlueSky. They are definitely outside of the big tech, privacy violating bunch but ultimately still part of the US ecosystem.

Especially the recent event that Elon pressured the Reddit CEO to censor a subreddit keeps me thinking.

BlueSky does in theory have federation support, but it is still in its infancy. It is also still a company, albeit a public benefits one, and thus has a commercial interest. Most people are leaving X for BlueSky so true momentum is building there rather than in Mastodon.
Signal is a foundation but servers are fully US based thus still under US jurisdiction (like the CLOUD Act). Signal is the biggest alternative messenger and even there it is hard to build enough momentum to move entire groupchats from Whatsapp to Signal.

How do you view the situation?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Signal's boss Meredith Whittaker was one of the people who originally proposed Euro Stack, promoting European digital independence from the US.

https://euro-stack.eu/who-are-we/

There's also Jami: Canadian-based, open-source, encrypted, cross-platform, not tied to a phone number, and peer-to-peer, so no need to know / think about / choose "instances".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami_(software)

BlueSky seems like 'fedivapour' to me: federation is technically possible but not likely to ever happen in reality. And they've taken venture capital; at some point the VCs will demand a return on their investment.

But yes, you've got a tough choice to make: communication is all about network effects (i.e. number of users), but the ideal options have much lower numbers of users. The only way they'll get more users is if people take the plunge.