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Only thing not really mentioned in the other comments are Pixelfed and PeerTube. Again you gotta make genuine stuff not ads but if you put at least some effort in the videos and post semi regularly (and ideally use your own instance) you’ll be top in whatever niche you choose to highlight your business with. I can’t say the garden tending would make great business sense (it won’t bring you many new customers) but if the work you do is your passion, its another outlet to share it. Its also not bad to have your own (labeled) ad channel (on your instance), archives can bring nostalgia / meme material, but local only, and don’t boost them.

I don’t think it’d be bad to have your own threadiverse and microblogging platform instances for support and slice of life type stories, but that’s for interacting with existing customers and fans, not for gaining new ones. I’d caution interacting outside of your instance in that space unless pinged / mentioned directly, even more carefully than you would in other socials.

Yeah I’m probably in the same boat, got love being an old.

You can always just subscribe to your favorite creators via RSS instead of relying on their subscription tools. It does kill some discovery potential but its not like you still don’t get recommendations when going to the video.

Almost all alternatives will be based on Open Street Map (OSM), and your mileage will very on the amount of detail from your local contributors. The two I primarily use are:

CoMaps (community fork of Organic Maps) has a clean intuitive interface and a decent router algorithm. Lots of developer energy and good community governance. Offline first, allows some OSM editing, quick to load and routing. Downsides are its limited feature set and configuration.

OsmAnd is a bit older but includes more routing options, near full OSM point of interests (POIs, locations like stores, buildings, etc) editing options, shows more POI types (configurable but can get noisy), has optional Mapillary (community Streetview style project unfortunately ran by Meta) integration, optional weather data, over and under layers from other sources, and optionally incorporates Wikipedia and Wikivoyage data filling in some gaps. Its interface is a bit more clunky, and somewhat slower, but it does a lot. Get the OSMAnd~ version from Fdroid, which has most of the “pro” (paid) version but without Google services. The actual paid version does have Google reviews and more POI search engine, but you’re using Google again.

Both are offline first but also both suffer from no review system integrations or traffic integrations (no Waze/GMaps reporting of slow downs or speed traps).

https://marginalia-search.com/ is pretty great for a different approach to search. While not exactly what you were asking for since its free, you can definitely pay via donations if you find it valuable.

And if you don’t want Signal because its “too centralized” for whatever reason, there’s DeltaChat, SimpleX, and good ol’ XMPP.

My next post after this one was https://lemmy.world/post/34898968 (a story about a Baidu taxi driving into a construction pit) in my home feed.

Hopefully the EU itself can provide its own competitor in this space and that the EU actually enforces its own privacy and safety laws against this behemoth.

Lazy question as I haven’t followed the DSA closely and Wikipedia seems very surface level - does it do stupid privacy invasive crap and forget small sites exist like the UK’s Online Safety Act?

https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/github_to_codeberg has some instructions on how to do a bulk migration using LionyxML’s script. https://codeberg.org/LionyxML/migrate-github-to-codeberg

The underlying software forge Codeberg uses, Forgejo, is self-hostable. I’m sure some web hosting business will get around to providing a managed hosting offering eventually.

Credit cards should roughly do the same, but both of those aren’t “great” for privacy and really exists to make profiles of adults while pretending to negate the need for parents to parent (the only real way to reduce/prevent harms of kids witnessing age inappropriate media). Your ability to do financial transactions shouldn’t be tied to your speech or content you view.

IANAL but many localities have provisions that guests become defacto tenants after certain timeframes. This CO lawyer’s blog I found searching for your state’s tenancy laws might be a good read. https://www.colorado-violent-assault-crimes-criminal-lawyer.com/colorado-criminal-law-rights-of-a-house-guest-vs-colorado-trespass-laws

Yuck, TIL.

And even when it comes to Galaxies, you can’t buy from a carrier in the US or you’ll often get a special version that, you guessed right, has a locked bootloader. (Two phones now, never again).

Marginalia.nu does too with similar additonal filters like Tildeverse and Forums.

So many studies say this will lead to far less productivity for anything remotely knowledge work, especially over a long period.

Meanwhile smarter companies are going to a 4 day work week. https://www.investopedia.com/four-daywork-week-study-success-11777896

I’m a supporter of a few non-profit local news sources and they’ve been awesome.

I’ve been liking https://legiblenews.com/ but NPR marketplace and morning edition has been amazing for a traditonal source (I love https://text.npr.org/ too, not enough sites offer that amazing of UX) for national/world news. BBC World Service is pretty good too.

Ground News is nice for its blindspot feature but I think I’ll be sending my money elsewhere when renewal hits.

If you keep forgetting them for another ~15-25 more years they might have value in the retro space.

I don’t have much to say except I love the amount of effort you put into that comment! Thanks for making the fedi awesome!

Granted this law was more clear cut with 14, 16, and 18 being the dividing lines, but it definitely fails to concisely define social media.

The other issue is how do you verify age, and that has been another difficult question if you think people should have reasonable expectations of privacy and aren’t comfortable with the “enter your birthyear” forms.