It isn’t perfect but we are ahead of most others (Mastodon, Matrix). We have spent TWELVE YEARS building the free, permissionless open source platform for anyone to assemble and host their own community software with all the features of Facebook/Twitter/TikTok for their own community:
https://github.com/Qbix/Platform
We are about to roll out version 2.0 — I have never done this before but I would like to invite whoever wants to learn about it or build on it, to a Zoom webinar where I will demo anything and answer any questions. Starting in Q3 this year all the webinars will take place on our own platform — no Calendly, no Zoom, no Google, just the free open Web.
Anyway, sign up here if you want. Will do it every Sunday throughout August:
https://calendly.com/qbix/qbix-2-0-platform-demo
Whether you’re a developer, a businessperson, or just want to learn about the latest technologies moving the Free Open Source Web forward, this platform can help empower you to build and engage a community around yourself and your projects.
I have lost a big part of my former trust and want for writing OSS this last few months and one thing I have learned is that if those two can't be answered with a resounding no it is a project I won't ever contemplate even though I'm neither American nor Russian.
Why are you using Github then?
Why using calendly, zoom, and google? Well, as I said, we haven't launched Qbix Platform 2.0 to everyone worldwide yet. This is if you want to get involved pre-launch.
We dogfood our own stuff, but we also interoperate with everything else out there, such as Discourse (https://qbix.com/ecosystem for example incorporates it), Zoom, Google, Facebook, etc.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/5/22215588/github-iran-sanct...
As a side note, many people on our development team that has worked with us since 2013 have spoken Russian, coming from Ukraine, Armenia, Russia, etc. Many of them continue to work together despite the war their governments are conducting.
We are for empowering people uniting communities around the world, and are pretty critical of government overreach:
https://community.qbix.com/t/transparency-in-government/234
https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/
If that appeals to you, the lowest hanging fruit is just joining the community and introducing yourself:
https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/21/russian_foss_contribu...
But thank you for your reply.