Exactly, people keep talking about VPNs, but where will we connect to if the whole world goes to shit?

I’m thinking about a wok. That surely couldn’t work with induction. Or does it?

I don’t agree with “more privacy”. Data is federated, so anybody can easily scrape and gather data.

Even upvotes/downvotes are public (even if your client doesn’t display them, you can get the list of users that voted your post/comment through the API).

You can be anonymous, create multiple accounts on different instances, you can use a client with not trackers, etc. but I wouldn’t say there’s more privacy.