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Sit at a table with Nazis and you just make more nazis

Maybe… I have a couple of hard drives to rescue and I need to figure out how to approach it

Is this the one that can scan a damaged hard drive to see where the flipled bit is, to fix that? I remember coming across that rescue disk program a few years ago.

The Problems of Tomorrow, Today!

Also a good lesson to give up control to others. I and others volunteered to help with the spam problem - in direct messages to him - that went unanswered.
If people offering help and you might be overwhelmed, accept it.

Now to get kbin/mbin to play nice with Lemmy and show that too

Build it yourself. Stash several mini computers connected to Lora radios around town. Connect to form a mesh all focused on the same fediverse page. Connect wifi hotspots to those servers, connecting phones to the hosted page, not to the internet.
You’d get a localized community site that by design can’t be infiltrated by people from across the country hating on you (e.g., San Francisco and Texas).
No idea on feasibility or how much work, but seems to address your question at least.