A push to embrace social media that is not controlled by oligarchs should include promoting the independent, federated sites that constitute the Fediverse, such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, and Loops. Many are based in Europe. All can be self-hosted by the technically inclined. They may well prove to be the samizdat for this moment.
That is right. However, we also have to think more broadly than that. For example, so many of us in the kind of liberal donor class still rely on media sources that have pretty much entirely capitulated to this.
A push to embrace social media that is not controlled by oligarchs should include promoting the independent, federated sites that constitute the Fediverse, such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, and Loops. Many are based in Europe. All can be self-hosted by the technically inclined. They may well prove to be the samizdat for this moment.
That is right. However, we also have to think more broadly than that. For example, so many of us in the kind of liberal donor class still rely on media sources that have pretty much entirely capitulated to this.