Additionally to NetGuard, you also can use RethinkDNS, it does the same thing as NetGuard with a local DNS for ad blocking and some other advanced stuff.
You'll be fine. As long as the wires don't touch each other or get connected via some conductive liquid (e.g. water), nothing should happen. Cover it with something like electrical tape or some plastic cover for outlets just to be safe.
They don't even have free will. They just blindly trust whatever the government says.
And also, for them, anything american means freedom, also the freedom to have privacy as well, so they'll get annoyed or ignore you if you dare tell them the truth about the other American origin services as well.
They are different platforms, so you can't. If you remove ActivityPub from one Lemmy instance (or server), it would be just one centralized Reddit clone. What makes them special is that every public activity (like, comment, post, etc.) are all sent to other servers in the whitelist. This causes the other instances to also have the same content (copy), making the fediverse possible. Just because you can comment on your instance and that being displayed on some Mastodon instance does not mean you have another account there. Your comment was simply copied to that other Mastodon instance using the ActivityPub protocol.
If you want this so you can claim your comments, posts, likes, etc. on other federated platforms (e.g. Lemmy -> Mastodon), you can look into DIDs. DIDs allow users to have Decentralized IDentifiers. Which means the identity that your content are linked to is not locked into one instance. You can log in with your DID(s) anywhere that supports them.
The thing is that DIDs are still being discussed (or had been discussed) to decide how it would be implemented into ActivityPub. Bluesky, for example, uses DIDs. Which is why you can claim the ownership of your content from one instance on another. Do note that Bluesky does not use ActivityPub, but their own protocol called the AT protocol (which, in my opinion, just exists because they want to be different).
You can't get rid of bots, nor spammers.
The only thing is that you can have a more aggressive automated punishment system, which will unevitably also punish good users, along with the bad users.
You'd be surprised to find out that ProtonMail uses Google's push service (unless you have GMS disabled) so your emails aren't hidden from Google as much as you think.
I pay 5 euros for a VPS at Hetzner and self host my own SearXNG metasearch engine without compromising my privacy.
Unlike Kagi, I can search without limits and without the AI stuff that even Kagi has started getting into.
I disagree. Discoverability is to discover new stuff from new places you haven't seen before. In Lemmy, for example, I can sort by All/New and I'll discover lots of new things I haven't seen from new places. Interesting to me or not, there's discoverability.
Looks like this text is LLM generated.