Tumblr is not NSFW content friendly, which is a slippery slope. I don't want my edgy meme taken down or censored, I would much rather run my own server that I control and having it not subject to arbitrary value judgements about what I post.
You could be a CDN (Content Delivery Network) and act as a point-of-presence (PoP) for the country you're in. Mirror Linux distro ISOs, offer the ability for netizens to download offline versions of Wikipedia which are over ~50GB sans images.
SMS is a dated technology and I despise services that use SMS, especially for OTP / PINs used to sign in. SIM cards can be 'swapped' by bad actors all too easily. I understand you want to stop abuse, but there's other ways to do this like CAPTCHAs or putting your site on Cloudflare and filtering out rogue/malicious IPs like VPNs/Tor, or doing things like rate-limiting.
I've reached generic TLD fatigue. There's a new one each week. I regularly buy domains with OVH since they have a wide array of TLDs at a good price[0]. Over the years I let many of them expire because either 1) I let my dreams die, or 2) I couldn't afford to renew it. Mostly it's because I let my dreams die, not financial shortcomings though.
A cold start is the hardest part. It's important to discern what part of your content is noise or genuinely helpful, but if it falls on deaf ears, that gets annoying, and I know your pain. It's not enough just to 'engage' and follow interesting people, there's a whole art to Twitter that I won't discuss here, as its too lengthy (and I haven't had my coffee).
> In addition to driving out non-compliant VPN providers and using regular means to block domains and IP addresses
How do they get the point-of-presence VPN IPs? Does Russia go to the OpenVPN/Wireguard page of VPN services and download each country config file and build a naughty list of VPN IPs?
I divide my digital life into two realms. Pre-Snowden and Post-Snowden. Pre-Snowden I did not know about opsec or how valuable it was. Post Snowden I am more careful and regularly spin up new handles so that I do not have a single repository with all my info on there. There are types who prefer to use the same handle everywhere but overlook the risks of doing that.
And all this privacy tooling is a bandaid solution to the problem of privacy in the digital realm. It addresses problems after the fact rather than addressing the underlying symptom which is dragnet surveillance, surveillance capitalism, and people farming / i.e using people as a datapoint to power an AD engine.
I think advanced alien life exists in different dimensions we can't access yet. The 3D plane is boring for them, so they live on higher dimensions, unseen.
If you have the time, you could download a few breach corpuses and do a manual search for creds. There's even a few clearnet breach forums that don't exclusively operate on the darkweb.