As governments around the world pass free-speech unfriendly social media laws, the number of platforms that still allow users to speak freely is dwindling. Here is a list of some of the ones that remain.
No, AFAIK you can just follow or block users and then get a feed of the followed.
Also you get a feed of replies to your posts.
It also has an NSFW flag. In the Yana client it's called "Automatically open sensitive content". It will then show a button, instead of loading things the author flagged sensitive.'
I seem to receive messages in all languages as well. Some have interesting pics of burnt cars.