Let’s say Dear Leader decides to have the houses of anyone who speaks ill of him (or capitalism) burned down in the night, or their dogs killed, or nefarious files uploaded to their network etc. How easy would that be?
US, of course. I’m actually concerned about this.
Probably not that much yet, but they’ll be coming after us sooner or later as lemmy usership grows.
It took them almost 20 years before they seriously came after Reddit users (not that it hasn’t happened before, but not like this), but the government was always watching. And they’re certainly watching us here now.
And it’s every government, and plenty of corporations, too. Not just the United States government.
Threads proved that we aren’t unnoticed. Even truth dot social is only a mastodon instance
An unfederated instance, and highly tweaked to do its own thing