VinesNFluff

If all you want is a place to get memes, hello, you're in the least bad place on the internet, the indie web/fediverse.

But to keep in touch with family members and friends, who are likely not techy people?

.... I guess you could get them on Signal?

I mostly talk to my folks through Telegram, but that's as far as I could take them (still consider it a win over using WhatsApp, because Telegram might be full of fascists but at least has an open API and a competent Linux client)

A few options:

1. Get out. If you're one of the people fascists want dead, then surviving is in and of itself an act of resistance. Leave their domain. Go somewhere else. And live -- Just live. Build a life they can't touch.

2. Organise and survive under their noses. It will not be easy, even if fascism has a short shelf life... It still does a lot of damage while it is active, and you and yours could end up as their target. Still, your best chance of surviving is by grouping up. Meet your neighbours, meet your local activists, get to know them, and start helping each other.

3. Violence. But. It's not enough to just go spree killer. The violent response demands organisation. You could join an armed resistance group. Or, if you leave the country, if it comes to war, you could enlist to fight against your old nation. Lots of people did both in the forties.

That's fair, but isn't Estonia like

An exceptionally nice place to live?

I would wager that for an american coming from like. NY, or Detroit, Brazil would be outright comfy by comparison.

The most "dangerous" cities are Rio, São Paulo, and Salvador. But the thing about the lethality of those cities? Most of the people who are dying aren't foreign expats like you, it's the inhabitants of the samesuch poor areas, surrounded by mobsters and having to just deal with that on a day to day basis.

For everyone else? The big urban centers are dangerous to your property. Be careless and you will be mugged. Not pickpocketed. Mugged.

But at the same time Brazil is a pretty large place with lots of different cities. I've lived in a medium-to-large city (and NOT one of the famous ones Gringos would know) my entire life and been mugged... Twice. In thirty years. Both were harmless other than the loss of my cell phone.

I am legally mandated (it's in my country's constitution I'm pretty sure) to say "come to Brazil" in response to that.

Said on Mastodon, will repeat here:

This is the least surprising thing since that thing that wasn't very surprising.

To every Yankee reading this, I just hope you guys are like. Safe. Shit's gonna hit the mega fan over there it seems.

Yooooou

See a half dead girl

You pull your penis out

You stare into her tits

And you shake it all about

You turn into red jelly as you feel self hate and doubt

That's what it's all about

You're missing the important factor of the cultural zeitgeist

People who flocked to RedNote weren't just going there for an alternative to TikTok

They were specifically going there because the US government said "you can't go on the Chinese App!" so they said "Oh yeah? I'm gonna find an even MORE Chinese app to hang out at!"

I have long since given up on Normies ever coming to the Indie Web, federated or otherwise

Ever since the big Xwitter exodus, when people went to BlueSky when Mastodon was right there.

It is only for people adopting Linux after 2023

If you did it earlier, like me, you'll have to purchase your socks separately.

Your striped thigh-highs will be delivered in the mail within a month.

You know this human instinct, when if told we can't have The Thing, we start wanting it even more?

The American government told its kids that they can't have The Thing, the thing in this case being tiktok (a Chinese-run social media app)

So they found out about an even MORE Chinese social media app (tiktok was openly courting the west, had an English language app etc, while Rednote is made by the chinese for the Chinese and doesn't even have a client in English) and went there, which slightly miffed the Chinese userbase suddenly having to deal with all those weirdoes who wanted them to stop speaking mandarin and start speaking english.

It's just a trend. People are trying to ascribe deep meanings to it because conspiracy thought is entertaining, but really, it's just a bunch of people following what's trendy, and either way for any eagle burgers pearl clutching about the red menace, Rednote is covered in the ban because it is a blanket ban on any "apps run by a foreign adversary". You'll be safe behind the great american firewall soon.

Ofc, I doubt it'll be enforced for things like temu and wish.