I'll summarize Matrix (https://matrix.org) because I highly believe it should be the communication platform of choice for everyone, and especially political or other minorities.

Matrix is a specification for how clients (like apps) should talk to servers, and how those servers should talk amongst eachother.

You can choose to sign up on any of the public servers, or even run your own if you have the means. You can then participate in rooms, even with people from different servers. Those communicate with eachother to make this possible.

Every server that participates in a given room has a copy of what has happened (insofar as they are allowed to read its history). This means that even if one server goes offline, all the users on other servers can still continue to talk in that room. If that server does come back online (internet works again, or it was restored from a backup), it will realize it's missing message from its absence and ask the other servers to send them again, at which point its users can fully participate in the room again.

Matrix also features proper end to end encryption

As Matrix is only a specification, you need to pick a client you will use to connect to the server you chose. Currently the only fully-featured client is Riot (https://riot.im) which is available for Web, Desktop (Electron), Android and iOS. Other clients are still in the works for all sorts of platforms, including my own project: Neo (https://neo.pixie.town)

The matrix specification also allows for seamless bridging to other chat software, through so-called appservice. They get a block of user accounts allocated to them (like @telegram_*) which they have full control over. The appservice can then use those to relay messages from the users on the other chat platorms

feel free to ask questions either from a user or technical standpoint if anything is unclear, I just typed these out stream of concious style on my phone

I’m in!

native trees, fruit trees, trees for wood, trees for birds, trees for bees, trees for everyone

also plant trees not only of your current biome, but also of its neighbors biome, cause climate change means vegetation change. example: if you live um an area threatned by desertification, you should plant species adapted to more arid climates

Earth’s sixth mass extinction has begun, new study confirms
theconversation.com
Published June 19, 2015
https://theconversation.com/earths-sixth-mass-extinction-has-begun-new-study-confirms-43432

"[...] If we regard the Earth as nothing more than a source of resources and a sink for our pollution, if we value other species only in terms of what they can provide to us, then we we will continue to unpick the fabric of life. Remove further rivets from spaceship earth. This not only increases the risk that it will cease to function in the ways that we and future generations will depend on, but can only reduce the complexity and beauty of our home in the cosmos. [...]"

Remember friends:

monocultures can't survive, plants love permacultures that help them thrive

😤🤚 Burning Man
🙄🙄🙄

😍👉 Greening Gaia
😁😊😁

Alternatively, imagine if ALL OF MEXICO was in fire