After an Easter terror attack, Sri Lanka cut access to popular social media - Which is why you also want an account to popular federated social media accounts

Social media services that are federated such as Maston (alternative to Twitter) and Diaspora, Hubzilla and Friendica (alternatives to Facebook) provide full functionality from any of 100's of separate nodes (the addresses where you sign up). Posting at one node where you subscribed allows the message to be followed form elsewhere. There is no single central address that gets blocked to disable the network.

New nodes pop up all the time (I even created my very own hosted Hubzilla and Friendica nodes).

There are also other types of social networks such as Socialhome, Peertube (Youtube alternative), PixelFed (Instagram alternative) and others and usually belonging to just one is all you need, and you can usually follow/be followed from any other. It's the way social media will probably evolve to in future.

See fediverse.party/ for a list of federated social networks and lists of nodes where you can join.

NB: Sometimes a government is not trying to censor its population but rather to protect them from misinformation so always be cautious and question what news you receive via social media. Deliberate misinformation is sometimes spread by social media (and unfortunately be traditional media too).

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