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I recommend going with Backblaze, they're cheap and in my experience very reliable so far. If you're looking for other alternatives, you could get a storage box from Hetzner. It's not S3 compatible but instead supports Samba, FTPS, SFTP, Borg, Restic, RClone, and others. I suggest avoiding Wasabi due to their strange / shady? pricing model where you pay 3 months of storage cost for every deleted file.

For those that are unaware, it's the slogan of The Washington Post, which Bezos owns.

I'm not sure. I think your best bet would be to use a commercial VPN to blend in with the crowd that want to watch Netflix and then connect to TOR, although that does give authorities an excuse to arrest you in many places, but it's not like they would really need it anyway.

I'm not sure if duplicate servers are supported with AP, I suspect it will cause the posts to be shared twice.

I have been thinking about whether instances also being available on TOR could help, mostly due to Saudi Arabia banning lemmy.blahaj.zone. Commercial VPN's are apparently something problematic governments detect, so I doubt that accessing the TOR network is safe.

I've also heard it before. In the Netherlands there is a city with unusually high amounts of autism, it is also where Philips is located. The company used to have enormous factories and around 100k employees which is a lot for the Netherlands, especially back in 1970. Of course, the pollution from the factories might have an effect, but importing engineers, mechanics, and other technical experts from all around the country to move into their company towns might have an effect too.

Why does it list Gitea instead of Forgejo?

I'm not really expecting any attempts to compromise the servers themselves, I think it's more likely to see more website blocks like Saudi Arabia did with lemmy.blahaj.zone did some time ago.

A decent amount of the larger servers are hosted outside the US, which might complicates matters. However, many also use Cloudflare (US based) as a proxy, which might make targeting the Fediverse easier.

Perhaps less so if in a couple months it turns out that the contract went to one of Musk's companies. Having a large amount of money to spend on something intangible can also be very useful.

.world and a majority of the fediverse uses Hetzner afaik.

EDIT: According to Fedidb Hetzner is the most common ASN (excluding Cloudflare).

What are your thoughts on how political ideologies should be mapped or compared?

I feel like one scale (left/right) to represent all of politics is such a generalization that most models based on it are pointless