It feels like the more speech we produced on the internet the more of it turned out to be bullshit. We need to turn to quality over quantity.

That's a really interesting point. The question to me becomes: what facilitates quality over quantity? What encourages earnest dialectic dialogue over raging and trolling? I don't see the twitter format as the answer. Lemmy I feel is somewhat better at facilitating such a culture.

We need non-profit news outlets that are publicly and internationally founded with transparent decision-making.

~~Non-profit, public, transparent, those are all things any government body should be. What it seems you're describing is a centralised government body for determining truth/falsehood. To the exclusion of all others?~~

~~If you want to know what's going on in the world, read from at least 4 news sources from different parts of the world with different slants and ideologies. Note: they will contradict each other.~~

woops sorry, I misread outlets, thought it read outlet...

I think it's the opposite. On Mastadon you can make a new account on a better server ie mods more aligned with you. On bluesky if you make a new account and say a similar bannable thing again you'll be banned again.

Conversations for android is an example of a good XMPP client.

Yea, nah...

The protocol is worse for privacy

'Trust me bro'

The problem is, you're comparing apples with orchards. Analogous would be: 'email is worse for privacy than yahoomail'. Plus in this scenario yahoomail only lets you send emails to yahoomail addresses.

Phone numbers are no longer required iirc

Phone numbers are still required to register and maintain an account. Only difference now is you can choose to hide it from other users and give people a 'username' to look you up with instead.

Matrix and XMPP are not alternatives and are worse for privacy and security

XMPP is exactly as good or bad for privacy as the servers and clients you choose. It's a protocol, not a service. Unlike Signal, which is a brand/app/service package.

Fact: there was only ever one rape allegation and it was brought by the cops. The alleged victim refused to sign the statement to police and never signed a version which was edited later. All names were then leaked illegally to the tabloid press before JA was questioned. Read Prof Nils Melzer's well-researched book.