Hard to believe how many of us there actually are, yet social media has conditioned us into believing a website is dead unless it has 50 million daily visitors.

We certainly aren’t hurting for content (well, yes, we are, but the archive is being built as we speak.)

Thankfully this glorious thing is still being built and small enough for your opinion to be seen by those building it.

I disagree, but i think your viewpoint is valid.

…we are building a social web here, that is why.

If you just want a website with rss, why be here?

No, it really isn’t.

If it becomes illegal for Americans to cross a digital bridge into Switzerland, the fight is as good as over.

Trump is transactional. If a few tweets praising him prevents him from going after encryption, every group he is going after will be overall safer.

not only do we have the freedom angle to look at, we also have the geopolitical angle to look at here. This is the CEO of a private corporation owned by a non-profit foundation, itself a branch off of a scientific organization funded by a state whose entire existence so far is predicated upon selling secret freedoms to all who can pay, not just those who are the correct people.

The VPN and encryption software is likely to be illegal. The foundation who sells it may already be running afoul of newly signed executive orders. And the state who houses them is once again staring down the face of all it’s customers going to war against each other.

If all it costs to keep the bridge to Switzerland open for Americans is a few empty words, than pay the cost. It is that valuable.

I disagree that they did this, but I also recognize that they didn’t have much of any option.

They probably have more US clients than all other nations combined.

Both the democrats and Republicans have historically attempted to ban encryption for the consumer market.

Being in Switzerland, he is essentially the head of the only VPN company on planet earth that can protect your data truly from the US government.

Proton is required to fight modern fascism. The fascists have to think we are on their side.

I’m uncertain what the benefit to federation there is for that content.

Thank you for this article.

However, if i am the only person on my instance and I am blocking federation from known bad actors, I should theoretically be protected.

Thank you for this.

Any particular tutorials you recommend for setting up a first fediverse server?

Thank you.

This has been a lot of help.

Any specific things you think I should prioritize first and then build out from?

I do like the idea of a federated passport essentially, where your subdomain acts as verification it is you.

Thanks for the response. Realistically what am I looking at if I want to do a weekly blog post, and then mostly only posting comments on the various service?

I figure if it is possible to have the actual website not publicly visible, sort of like everything is behind a paywall, but everything behind that pay wall still gets posted to the various services, this just preventing website traffic.