Ghost is open source. You can selfhost. It’s just that aggressively advertising their (paid) hosting services on the official website

Which is why the comment you where replying to specified

in civilised countries

The implication beeping that the US is not. Because in a lot of other countries surprise clauses in your T&C’s is illegal

If you don’t want to do that, then you can buy a bootable drive (for example here: https://www.shoplinuxonline.com/mint21-usb.html)

Using a different tool to create a bootable drive is just a part of installing any operating system, not just Linux. If you ever need to install windows on a pc that doesn’t have it installed you will see the same process.

Warning: the holographic cheese may contain (non toxic) glue

Luckily they don’t have to switch. Your good friends from the European union have a solution for you (And the latest beta for whatsapp features the skeleton for their implementation of that standard)

1. You can actually import assets from unity into godot using a 3rd party add-on (If the assets license allows is)
2. Godot has C# scripting

The other one did as well (https://zdf.social)

https://stackdiary.com/brave-selling-copyrighted-data-for-ai-training/

And thanks to activityPub there is interoperability between services. I only have a Mastodon account, but I can follow people on pixelfed without problem. It moves the focus back onto communicating rather than being on the platform

Kind of both. You get to decide who you federate with but deciding who ferdarates with you is opt out. By default your server doesn’t know any other server. But you can search for communities on other instances by taking the url of the community on the other instance and entering it into the search field. This way the other server gets indexed by your server and after that federation is automatic

E-Mail is a federated standard, so in that sense every mail provider is part of the fediverse.

I think you are confusing fediverse with non profit and/or open source

If that is your question than yes there are alternatives out there. For example murena, the organisation behind the degoogled android fork /e (more information)