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Poast is listed as one of the biggest instances You just don't notice it on Mastadon since a lot of them are defederated

The Saharan desert but its everything but safe and comfy

Same thing with Syria, Ukraine, Russia ...

I used it a bit because its also on Grayjay but its pretty terrible and focuses a lot on big media than individual people

Pretty much every Alternative Tech platform also has a huge far right population Lemmy is an exception to this but has a decently sized far left population instead I dunno how it is now but a lot of people complained a couple of weeks ago about Nazis joining Bluesky and one of the guys from Bluesky covering them

It directly pulls Videos from Google servers unlike Invidious U can use Invidious on it but I doubt it works so well

Unpopular but it does make sense

VoX made a Video about this

The developer wants to add redirects to frontends in the future + also a token which let's you use the main instance without needing to solve a captcha

Back then they used Google only but now Bing a bit too

What is the issue with BTC You can send BTC anonymously too

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