Well, you can create an account from EU, although mine got locked after creating just one blog post. And the support does not seem to respond, so I moved to a different platform.

I love your style of writing :) I’ll bookmark your site in my gemini browser. I also think the post fits as it’s urbanism- and community-related.

Peertube is a good federated alternative to Youtube, it also connects to the Fediverse and there is a central search engine called Sepia Search, which makes it easier to find content on the different instances.