FediHood is a social network built around the place where you live. You choose a city and the topics you care about, then read what neighbours are saying and join in.
It stays a normal fediverse app. Your posts can reach Mastodon, PixelFed, Misskey and the rest, and posts from those servers reach you too.
Source code: https://git.holos.social/tom79/FediHood
There’s only one instance so far: https://fedihood.social/
If new instances are created, they should show up here: https://fedihood.fediverse.observer/list
Less friction is better though. And not everyone knows where else to go for E2E.
The problem to me would be development burden, but its alreast implemented so…
E2EE is very hard to implement safely. serious cryptography is not a hobbyist project. just look at all the problems matrix has had with it.