If you're rich enough or travel enough (like politicians), you can just claim that you will "be out of the county on election day and during the period for early voting by personal appearance".

https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/voter/reqabbm.shtml

These laws are meant to impact the poor and the middle class.

Yes!! And the active non-toxic community.

There are UI improvements to be made and general coordination and understanding of the fediverse (eg. discovering communities, duplicate communities, etc), but we will get there.

On the top right, you can change federation settings. https://i.imgur.com/efhcxLG.png

I'm in the same boat. Having a small instance for me and my friends might create an echo chamber, at least initially. My current strategy is to browse all on kbin and sdf's Lemmy and find interesting communities to subscribe to.

This does cause an issue of duplicate communities though -- pawb.social has tech but so do other Lemmy instances. I have not found a good way to group them and de-dup them yet.