Yeah that is pretty massive, only getting 25% of the expected votes.
I hope we keep this same energy going into November.
(check your voter registration, vote, encourage everyone you know to vote, write pro-voting graffiti on bathroom stalls, dress up as a ballot for halloween, this next election is kind of a big deal)
You pay someone else to host it for you. (Instanced social media)
You trade your digital freedom, privacy and political stability of your country to someone else to host it for you. (Meta, X, TikTok)
3 hasn't been working out so far and people really don't want to have to pay another subscription. So you can spend your battery life and data instead. Maybe setup the service so that other people can seed on your behalf, so you could use your own resources or pay for someone elses all in the same ecosystem.
Peertube does a similar thing, using bittorrent to share the load, but it only works while you're actively watching the video so outside of very popular videos it is usually just the instance who is providing bandwidth. By tying the data sharing directly into the primary interaction method it creates a much larger pool of peers and, eventually, once everyone stops seeding it the data stops existing.
No permanent record of everything you've ever posted, no central repository of data to be hoovered up by the AI startup who pays off the instance owner, no empowering a single person to control all of social media for their own selfish ends.
That ship has sailed, we've been blacklisting felons for a long time. Even removing their ability to vote.
Since we can't identify individual ICE officer, hiring any ICE officer is a risk because they could be the guy shooting off people's fingers or launching a tear gas grenade into people's head.
I'm living a 100% Linux life.
I'm just trying to save middle earth so I can go back to my trees