I want to make sure you guys know about Bastyon/Brighteon. Both are clients that act as frontend access to the Pocketnetwork. It's a distributed open-source social media platform blockchain network that runs on volunteer's computers. Furthermore, it has its own money system (token), which allows those volunteers' compensation for hosting part of the network. Content creators are also rewarded, as are coders, with this money. There's also a reputation system, where higher reputations have more ability to help keep the network running smoothly.
When the Chinese rebelled against the China government's CBDC, the people there had to find other ways to either trade or buy and sell essential necessities. This built in economic system of Pocketnetwork is such a system the users could fall back on, as well as being functional currently. There's even an international market site where users can trade these tokens for real world assets.
The Pocketnetwork is censorships free, with no governing system other than the users which self-govern and self-police it themselves. It is all encrypted, with even the chat system internally encrypted and private. Because it exists on people's computers around the globe, if one country bans Pocketnet, the network continues w/o much of a hiccup.
Also, not only is there browser access to the network, but there's an app, which gives users even more security. As you may know, DNS internet servers are points of weakness of the internet. If the popular DNS servers are taken down by hackers or the political class, the internet comes to a screeching halt and stops working for just about everyone. The Pocketnet app gets around this point of weakness by creating not only its own peer-to-peer network, but it can even create it through Tor connections when places like China's Information Wall tries to block it. This means that when 99.9% of the world suddenly can no longer use the internet--despite it still being up, the Elites (who have their own DNS servers) and Pocketnet app users will still be able to communicate with one another, continue trading, etc., as per usual.
Lastly, I'll mention that it also side-steps a problem that exists on platforms like MeWe. That is, those 'chat room'-type platforms become essentially echo-chambers, where the only opinions and information users ever encounter are those from people that already agree with them. This creates a very distorted reality of the world for users, and inhibits the much-needed process of a society working out ideological differences. If people are using social media platforms where this process cannot happen, then it does not happen and people stay divided, just as the Elites want. -- If you don't understand what I'm talking about, go try and join any of the Left-Leaning groups here on MeWe and see how long you last before you are kicked out of the channel. Even if you simply post uncomfortable facts, you will find yourself quickly booted from these ideological echo-chambers. This is not how a society remains healthy.
So, check it out if you think any of this is of value to you.
