Interesting read from r/rust, where they discuss Lemmy as a possible alternative, including the option of soft-forking it. It seems like Lemmy’s explosion in popularity is well timed.
Interesting read from r/rust, where they discuss Lemmy as a possible alternative, including the option of soft-forking it. It seems like Lemmy’s explosion in popularity is well timed.
It is not reasonable. It is the epitome of red scare paranoia. You are suggesting a ridiculous conspiracy is taking place with absolutely no evidence to support it.
China’s practice of surveilling over Internet traffic is well known; see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall .
(To be fair, the US is not innocent in this regard, either; see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM .)
Encryption and (to a lesser but still notable extent) federation can both mitigate the access of adversaries, including nation-state ones, from the content of private communication.