Someone on your server has to have followed an account on another server for the posts from that account to federate. Additionally, your Home feed should only be the accounts and hashtags you have followed. The Global feed is the one that shows all federated posts from other servers.
So removing it from the state's legal code is a pre-emptive action in anticipation of Project 2025 in the wake of Thomas' comments after Dobbs (he specifically called out Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell to be re-examined using the same arguments in order to overturn them all).
I don't mind that they have 2FA features in their app. I mind that using SMS for this has been known to be bad practice for years and they've tried to leverage that insecurity to push users to the Steam app. It's reckless and this current data breach is only possible because of it.
Show up to vote in primaries as often as they do (primaries have incredibly low turnout compared to the general). Join your local/state party so you can vote in the internal elections for party leadership. And don't stop, ever, even if you think the tide is turning. And also sign petitions and write to state legislators to try and get ranked choice/approval/etc voting in your state, as that's the only thing that will break the stranglehold of the two parties.
It originally set out to be just an account-hosting instance, at a time when the major instances with the big communities would be going down as usage surged from people leaving Reddit. This way it was more responsive and reliably online. They have <10 communities hosted on the instance.
I think the only viable pathway is taking over the parties thru the primaries like the Tea Party movement. Just like Hogg is doing from inside the party. If you have the resources to work on/for a third party, those could be more effective embedding in your local/state Democratic party.
How do you plan to succeed with a third party when the last 60+ years have.secured fewer than 1% of state and federal legislative seats and zero Electoral College votes (since 1968, and Perot even won just shy of 20% of the national popular vote)? Only 26 states have direct voter-initiated ballot initiatives (or forcing electoral reform to replace first past the post).
I historically have just used profiles for this.