Honestly, I look at this and I see a future where everyone runs their own Federated services. I can verify my child’s age as well as mine and I’m the best one to decide what they can and can’t see. So I only need to worry about me and my family.

Or a local community can run it for themselves.

A forced move away from social media, because they can’t afford the risk, to one where we all run our own stuff and can follow who we want.

This is only 1 possible outcome of course, and it’s wildly idealist, but it’s a future I’m going to push for no matter what. So I’m very biased, so don’t take my opinion into account. :D

Honestly, I look at this and I see a future where everyone runs their own Federated services

on mesh networks. these already exist for basic communication, and are pretty cheap to be a part of since you can either purchase ready-to-use communicators, or make your own. the relays can also run off very small solar panels, and be stuck in a tree, on a post, or on a roof because they are tiny. best of all, the government can’t control them and they feature E2EE.

the government can’t control them

• They can use signal jammers to take them out pretty easily.

well if the government wants to put signal jammers every mile or so in order to jam a mesh network, then good on them. they’ll have spent trillions of dollars and years upon years building the infrastructure.

and if they don’t spend trillions to blanket the entire country with jammers, then it would be absolutely pointless because the network would just work around whatever gaps there are, just as it does today.