What do you mean, self-hosted is equally reachable regardless of where it's hosted.

You can't sign up to telegram with the FOSS version, you have to use the Play store.

Most of the online SMS receiving services seem to work, but people are burning new numbers within the hour to sign up to telegram. Sometimes within minutes.

You can use TON crypto to buy a username, but that requires identifying yourself at third party exchanges.

Very nice, a big issue for nooby users was the mess Deltachat created in their regular email inbox.

What people need to do is start self-hosting PeerTube IMO.

Can I freely upload my niché videos of USB cable testing there? PS, I'm not a US citizen.

Just like "they" were free to harvest personal data unless the user was able to block it, I'm going to freely watch YouTube unless they're able to block me. Of course I'm going to feel bad if they manage to block me and that's going to incentivize me to find a different way of accessing YouTube until there's no paths left and then I'll simply stop using the platform.

Yes. I want full access to everything without paying a dime, no ads and no tracking.

The thumbnail image looks like half a pancake with the face of Jesus burnt into it.

If toasts with images of Jesus is worth a lot, this pancake must be priceless!

I stopped using Brave for anything serious after diving into the data collection of Leo, the built-in, practically unstoppable webbrowser AI. It's appaling to me. I use Cromite at the moment.

Every DMV photo in the United States is being used for AI facial recognition

I'm glad I don't have a US driving license then.

in the next few years Copilot will simply become a part of people’s lives

Only those who don't care about privacy and use Windows.

.SU (soviet union domains) are well known for the overrepresentation of cyber criminals.

Would it be racist to use .su as an example domain too?