He didn't just try. He succeeded in doing so. His pull request was merged into systemd and will land into your distro eventually (if it is systemd-based).
There are distros free of systemd, like Devuan, based on Debian.
Mastodon/Lemmy instances can be forced to KYC you. So you would have to jump into hoops and move from instance to instance. It will be like torrent sites or darknet markets, that come and go.
Yes, you can self-host, and should, but most people don't want to be a sysadmin, and it isn't easy. Ideally you should be able to participate in a self-sovereign way without being a sysadmin. Just like:
you can torrent something without being a sysadmin
you can self-custody your cryptocurrency without being a sysadmin
you can chat on SimpleX or Session and never be deplatformed without being a sysadmin
you can use Nostr and never be deplatformed without being a sysadmin
If you need a VPN to access it, then the Fediverse isn't censorship-resistant. The VPN is. Even more, the Fediverse instance is geoblocking/censoring you.
Examples of services that geoblock you or KYC you:
If you need a Chromium derivative, then Brave is probably the best choice. It's open-source, and includes ad blocking. Just don't use its crypto token.
I prefer Firefox over Brave, but sometimes I might need a Chromium derivative for a particular site.
Debian will include new systemd age-verification. A way to avoid it is Devuan Linux, which is basically Debian but with sysvinit instead of sytemd.
He didn't just try. He succeeded in doing so. His pull request was merged into systemd and will land into your distro eventually (if it is systemd-based).
There are distros free of systemd, like Devuan, based on Debian.
How to do this?
Mastodon/Lemmy instances can be forced to KYC you. So you would have to jump into hoops and move from instance to instance. It will be like torrent sites or darknet markets, that come and go.
Yes, you can self-host, and should, but most people don't want to be a sysadmin, and it isn't easy. Ideally you should be able to participate in a self-sovereign way without being a sysadmin. Just like:
If you need a VPN to access it, then the Fediverse isn't censorship-resistant. The VPN is. Even more, the Fediverse instance is geoblocking/censoring you.
Examples of services that geoblock you or KYC you:
Examples of services that don't geoblock/KYC you:
And a service like SimpleLogin for having a different email address per service.
And unless you're using a social network site and you want your followers from other social network to find you there, use a different username too.
If I understand it right,
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
SimpleX has the best privacy, because of removing metadata.
Signal comes close, and has many more users. Probably some of your friends already use it.
If you want something similar to Telegram/Discord/Slack, then Element (Matrix) is what you're looking for.
All of the above are E2EE.
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Apps that don't work:
As far that I know, that's it.
There's NewPipe, which is open-source.
Why not Element/Matrix?
I just found this. Haven't tried it.
https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.burhanrashid52.photoediting/
Try https://simplex.chat. Better privacy and no phone number required.
Most cryptocurrency communities use Discord or Telegram. It's such an embarrasment.
You can just continue using Signal. All the alternatives will disappear from the app stores too unless they spy on you.
A recent alternative with even better privacy is SimpleX: https://simplex.chat/
If you need a Chromium derivative, then Brave is probably the best choice. It's open-source, and includes ad blocking. Just don't use its crypto token.
I prefer Firefox over Brave, but sometimes I might need a Chromium derivative for a particular site.
Ferdium does this and it's open-source. It supports Lemmy too. And you can even add your custom website.