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I see three potential doomsdays scenarios:

• US invades Greenland, Canada, or another neighborhood
• Escalating trade war. US tech giants are forced to boycott its international userbase
• Massive forced USD devaluation shattering the financial markets

And of course none of the extreme, but the usual chaos.

It feels like an invasion is becoming more likely. We must step up our game immediately.

I am looking for a way to block out all US IPs, ideally via a browser extension like uBlock Origin or a custom DNS server. I want to use this as a simulation to verify that I can still do the most critical activities without immediate US reliance (e.g., doing a bank transaction, contacting my family)

Does such a thing already exist?

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?