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Re:International coalition calls for action against surveill... by fsflover on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:49PM (#27623552)
> Keep communities small. You don't need to network with 3 billion people.

With federated platforms like Mastodon, PeerTube, PixelFed, you technically can network with 3 billion people, despite the lack of the central server.

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Re:International coalition calls for action against surveill... by nonameiguess on Thursday June 24, 2021 @05:57PM (#27624352)
Of course, and that's another option, too. Make truly distributed applications that don't rely upon servers you own serving everyone, and you pay no hosting costs at all.
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