Debian will include new systemd age-verification. A way to avoid it is Devuan Linux, which is basically Debian but with sysvinit instead of sytemd.

He didn't just try. He succeeded in doing so. His pull request was merged into systemd and will land into your distro eventually (if it is systemd-based).

There are distros free of systemd, like Devuan, based on Debian.

How to do this?

Mastodon/Lemmy instances can be forced to KYC you. So you would have to jump into hoops and move from instance to instance. It will be like torrent sites or darknet markets, that come and go.

Yes, you can self-host, and should, but most people don't want to be a sysadmin, and it isn't easy. Ideally you should be able to participate in a self-sovereign way without being a sysadmin. Just like:

• you can torrent something without being a sysadmin
• you can self-custody your cryptocurrency without being a sysadmin
• you can chat on SimpleX or Session and never be deplatformed without being a sysadmin
• you can use Nostr and never be deplatformed without being a sysadmin

If you need a VPN to access it, then the Fediverse isn't censorship-resistant. The VPN is. Even more, the Fediverse instance is geoblocking/censoring you.

Examples of services that geoblock you or KYC you:

• Reddit
• YouTube
• Fediverse instances

Examples of services that don't geoblock/KYC you:

• Tor
• Nostr
• IPFS
• I2P
• VPNs

Anything decentralized isn't DMCA-compliant.

• torrents
• IPFS
• also Odysee/LBRY, I believe

And a service like SimpleLogin for having a different email address per service.

And unless you're using a social network site and you want your followers from other social network to find you there, use a different username too.

If I understand it right,

• the time-lock is from the time the recipient (Carol) starts decrypting the encrypted file sent by Bob.
• future microchips, according to Moore's Law, will decrypt the file much faster.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

SimpleX has the best privacy, because of removing metadata.

Signal comes close, and has many more users. Probably some of your friends already use it.

If you want something similar to Telegram/Discord/Slack, then Element (Matrix) is what you're looking for.

All of the above are E2EE.

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Apps that don't work:

• Google Pay

As far that I know, that's it.

There's NewPipe, which is open-source.