There's a wage problem there too. If some developer in India or China is working the 996 there is no chance they will spend time off work developing open source.
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True. Incrementalism vs. Radicalism.
IMO social networks as they're currently designed are bad enough for adults. We shouldn't normalize them (too late I suppose). Ie. Your argument is similar to saying, "It's disturbing to think of kids smoking, but a lot already are, so maybe having child cigarettes would be a bit safer for them." I'm of the opinion that children under a certain age shouldn't have access to social media at all, in the same way you can't smoke or drink under a certain age until they are taught/understand it's implications on their mental/physical health.
Having a social network for children is a pretty fucking terrible idea no matter how you look at it. I can't think of a good reason why this would be beneficial to children that outweighs the risks (addiction, social isolation, exploitation, bullying, comparison). Like people should be up in arms about this idea.
I only know of the ones on the seafile partner site. Luckycloud is the least expensive. https://www.seafile.com/en/partner/
I thought Dansup said he was going to make a feature to disable those options.
Check out Logseq, or Obsidian, or Zettlr. They all use markdown as their base meaning you can transfer your notes anywhere if you don't like the development of the app in the future. They all can be hosted on a Seafile instance which is a really good Delta-sync app that has encryption. I use Luckycloud.de (seafile), which costs me 1 euro a month.
I use Seafile for syncing Obsidian notes. It works pretty well. Syncthing is probably a better option but Seafile is pretty easy.
About Bellingcat being an arm of the CIA or that Proton supports Bellingcat or that Protonmail is run by Americans techbros that did some studies at CERN and decided to stay and leverage the Swiss brand? These are all relatively easy to google. For the Bellingcat CIA link search for GrayZone + Bellingcat. There's some quality investigative journalism there.
I think the main issue is as cited by others, language. The other is that Facebook et al focus on countries with high GDP per capita. So poor countries aren't really serviced well by American social media companies because there's little profit to be made.
Mastodon seemed to be gaining some popularity in India for a time. It could be useful in other countries. Same with Lemmy, in the same way that LibreOffice has a large Global South adoption rate. Lemmy and Mastodon would need to focus on and promote localization though for that plan to succeed.
But we're talking about why westerners get treated differently than the rest of the world really, and a lot of it has to do with US hegemony.
Ahh we've got a neocon here :) Welcome to Lemmy!
I fucking hate amp so much.