quokka

Personally, I'll spin up a Mastodon (or similar) instance for my kid and his mates.

You mean apps that they'd really like you pass age verification by having MyGovDigitalSurveillanceDefinitelyNotTrackingYou app?

Yep. And meanwhile the kids will be chatting/abusing in Google Docs. Or IRC servers they spin up for free in AWS or whatever. Or, shock, SMS.

offshore extremists use such platforms to communicate.

Yes, yes they do. But that is not justification for reading everyone's messages.

as with Signal, is not really about what you'll use, but what alternative gains traction and you can persuade your contacts to use. I hope one of the decentralised alternatives is able to rise to mainstream status.

a good chunk of that is about to become high-rise apartments. on wet riverbank. but would be a better place for the motor track part of the plans

There's a few in Perth. They occasionally paste some laughable text in the local papers proclaiming that they are sole bodies and not beholden to taxation. Or some other bumph. It's odd that all sovshitness seems to come down to not paying taxes, while still using all the facilities that taxation provides.

It exists wherever they say it does surely?

I believe she was in state housing. Classic sovshit shitfuckery.

No love for the FuriLabs project?

hopefully those bodies are treating such a questionnaire with the respect it deserves

It'll need a 1.5GB "drivers" download every week, a subscription to just keep running, forget all its network settings monthly, need an "app" to set it up, and if you don't play a game they like it'll just brick itself?