What can be possibly done? All the other problems can be addressed but I feel like DNS is the final filter. We can't flee "muh private corporations" if we depend solely on other private corporations to not pull the domain from under our feet. Thoughts?
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I'm happy to do a Fediverse thing, but I looked into it, and it's way above my head technically at the moment.
Honestly, a kind of Republicanism is the strongest power we have. I'm not kidding when I say you all need to find non-standard lines of communication, particularly in video games.
Take Elite Dangerous for example. You can literally wander out to a random point in the galaxy that no one's explored, and then it's effectively yours because you could get 5 people there at a time and no one is super concerned with it. If you form a faction, then you have legitimate claims to the territory.
You could basically do this on any MMO.
Yes, having this forum is nice and all, but you really need to work on creating your own spaces in your own communities. If you all have a redundant space to fall back on, I can easily make one hub into another. There will always be an internet forum available somewhere, and then you guys just go to that.
The Left understands how to use tactics, and our greatest weakness is that we don't have what's called: a defense in depth. If you lose one layer of defense, then you lose everything... so you make a second layer. A decentralized defensive network allows for redundancy that the Left can't roll-up in a single attack.
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I have a feeling we wouldn't be welcome to the fediverse, because unfortunately many free software advocates are blatant tankies.
However we could use an ActivityPub implementation to create a knock-off fediverse for our own use.
Like all distributed platforms, once you get going, it's very difficult to stop you.
For everything else, I agree. Also good idea for the MMOs, I'll give it some thought.