Poast is listed as one of the biggest instances You just don’t notice it on Mastadon since a lot of them are defederated

Same thing with Syria, Ukraine, Russia …

I used it a bit because its also on Grayjay but its pretty terrible and focuses a lot on big media than individual people

Pretty much every Alternative Tech platform also has a huge far right population Lemmy is an exception to this but has a decently sized far left population instead I dunno how it is now but a lot of people complained a couple of weeks ago about Nazis joining Bluesky and one of the guys from Bluesky covering them

It directly pulls Videos from Google servers unlike Invidious U can use Invidious on it but I doubt it works so well

Unpopular but it does make sense

VoX made a Video about this

The developer wants to add redirects to frontends in the future + also a token which let’s you use the main instance without needing to solve a captcha

Back then they used Google only but now Bing a bit too

What is the issue with BTC You can send BTC anonymously too

Qwant Maps

Stuck in local

Pretty sure my Adblocker already does all of this I still use Youtube about 10% of the time to find new channels Piped provides some suggestions while you watch some Video but it can’t replaces YT’s homefeed

So you’re telling me that you pay tens of thousands and still pay with privacy

Questionable that you can’t change the search engine to a custom one out of “concerns”

Questionable that you can’t change the search engine to a custom one out of “privacy” concerns

Aurora or Obtainium which isn’t really a store It fetches the APK’s directly from the source like a RSS

I use Startpage You can also use any good SearchXNG instance I think etsi(dot)me uses Ai unlike Startpage Kagi is a good search engine but it comes with a price

Brave is almost the same and Vanadium is better on Grapheme devices I don’t recommend Bromite or even a fork It will probably have the same Update issues like Bromite which makes it a terrible option

It’s pretty much Notion but private and I guess its own features I never used Notion but it also feels like an all in one App Unlike Notion it doesn’t need your data