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If you have a Facebook, X or Amazon account, I hope you can find it in your heart to switch to one of their competitors. It’s worth a try.
For Xitter, BlueSky is drop-in replacement that's superior in most respects. I'm not aware of any equivants for Facebook or Amazon.
You're posting this on the Fediverse and still recommending centralized corporate social media? We can do better than make the same mistakes again and again.
Try Mastodon as a Xitter replacement.
Friendica as a Facebook replacement.
And if you're able and have transport, support your local businesses by buying products locally (especially independently owned stores), instead of ordering from Amazon.
BlueSky actually is federated, AFAIK: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-architecture
It does use its own protocol (AT instead of ActivityPub)