Said nothing about hosting in China or Russia. The guy I was speaking to began monologuing about how he uses UBlock to disable all Russian and Chinese websites in the "Boycott US" community, I found it incredibly out-of-touch. Russia is not that hard to host in, you've clearly got an exaggerated idea of that. Where a website is actively hosted or what its domain is has little bearing on what languages it uses, as evidenced by the Malian domain basically being wordplay. Maybe I ought not to even mention it, but Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, and a surprising number of places are solid VPS options, but I am not opening a community I just have bots and a few dozen oomphs in a group chat. Nothing I have been getting censored for on western social media is against their laws. I do not have issues on Rednote, VK or Weibo etc. Your side of the discussion is bordering on concern-trolling. I am not even interested in self-hosting a community ActivityPub instance or federating with the communities which are essentially BlueSky lite and use software that cripples essential tools such as searching within a profile and federated aggregation. Was honestly curious if it is as bad as FediMap makes it look or I had missed a spot in what appears to be another boring cluster of semi-personalized websites on the same old datacenters.
One way or another everyone hosting in the west is apparently still comfortable that laws won't change (new issues will come and with them new censors) under their feet and they won't get FISA attention. Worst thing another country's internet host can do is terminate your account, or report you to your own LEO. There are just a zillion reasons why "which country is the most based to me" is not even the right question to be asking, rather: Where are we? Who wants to get to us? How could that change?
They might as well give an award to Trump's war on Venezuela itself. That is all she represents. Nobody in this thread cares about what she wants for Venezuelans. She represents hatred and the resurgent Monroe Doctrine.
Don't worry, you're in good company. Most of the people who think he did it never bothered to look at the facts either. I know because if you did, you'd go "wait what the fuck"
Well, that's kind of like asking me to present both sides of it, which I can do, but not on the bus, I'll circle back. In the meantime though, consider that is why most people believe he did it, along with leaked documents the public should not even had. Would that be at the forefront if there were solid evidence against him?
Of course, but it would be better if you tried to break down why you think this is the guy first. Not being glib. Why do you think it's him? What information led you to that conclusion?
The question was how do I post on a Mastodon instance without being moderated by someone subject to Western internet laws. It seems I choose between a carbon copy IT professional choosing Hetzner, or self-hosting. What can the Chinese and the Russians do to me? I am worried about our goverments. Not sure you can understand my priorities.
It's ridiculous that you would run with some document leaked to a freelance journalist to the degree you overlook feds have provided zero evidence this guy was even in the state at the time of the murder. The handling of this trial has been disgusting, on the side of the public as well as the prosecution. It's downright shameful.
I'm just not convinced they can restrain themselves.