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De-Westernize your technology as much as possible. Consider going with Huawei or Xiaomi or OnePlus for phones (or stuff like laptops, which there's also Lenovo (seek out a model that is made to support Linux)), Aliexpress for shopping, and Huion for art-related hardware. China's always producing better and better shit, and they very well may extend their satellite mobile and (potentially) internet services to the global market. Keep in mind protectionism is escalating in the West, so expect interference and sabotage at some point.
Those who are on Windows and Mac, consider getting something really cheap like a raspberry pi or dual-booting a Linux distro and slowly developing the skillset to leverage it to your everyday needs, then start carrying your workflow over gradually until the other two are obsolete.
Especially keep an eye out for 100% indigenous Chinese technologies like CPUs, RAM, GPUs, etc etc. Shit the West can't backdoor in the production process because they have no control over it.
Those of us who are already here on Hexbear, which is basically reasonably sovereign territory not controlled by the CIA, are already in a much better position than fucking Reddit.
For videos, consider using something like https://www.bilibili.tv/en/ if you can't afford to host or trust any existing PeerTube instance. Odysee is technically an option too (based on the LBRY protocol, decentralized video hosting), but it's currently full (and I mean full) of chud content (and possibly nsfw shit).
For file hosting I highly recommend something like IPFS if you want to guarantee file authenticity and make it impossible for someone else to censor (you control when and for how long you host the file). IPFS has been used to host a copy of Wikipedia in the past (yes, can host static sites) when the Turkish government (I believe it was?) basically yeeted the site in an act of censorship. The latter is just an example, nobody should ever rely on NATOpedia for anything political or historical, at all.
Those of you who feel are lacking in technological warfare literacy, you can follow the news at https://www.eff.org/ to understand the trends the state has used and is using to undermine the proletariat.
The West wants to be able to easily rug pull you, so make it a big ass fucking chore for them to do so.
What's Hexbear's hosting status? Presumably the servers live in a country that won't respond to a US/UK/EU court order or subpoena?
shodan puts us in france
hosting is cloudflare
when i checked last time (~6months ago) we were in arizona
think cloudflare bounces us around
Servers are French, but we don't use Cloudflare (haven't since we moved back upstream a few months ago).