[wycy]

I wouldn't bother. Nobody really cares about privacy-first. The HN audience is one that you might expect to care strongly about privacy, and yet even here many still prefer to use the Android/Google ecosystem because it's more customizable and Not Apple, over the highly private Apple ecosystem. Privacy just isn't that many people's first concern.

[wlesieutre]

Ello was an attempt at something like this, but it shut down last year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ello_(social_network)