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?

  • VisionScout@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    i dont use any of them. Mastodon is better than bluesky. Signal is state of the art, but its centralized in amazon servers. Since they are centralized, its like having a big target in their backs - all the bad actors will take a shot at it (not mentioning the current US politics and the fact they need donations to keep providing the service).

    • guest@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Do you have a suggestion for a mastodon server? I was looking for

      • European server
      • Not hosted on AWS, GCP, Azure, and no usage of Clourflare or Fastly
      • Still allows sign-ups
      • More than 500 users or older than 1 year

      And I got hardly any results.

      • VisionScout@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        11·
        6 days ago

        unfortunately no. Also there’s no page that i know of that we can use to search those requirements :-(