They don’t go after lemmy. They go after the users. There are several ways, the easiest of which is to make using a federated network an implicit crime.
Like how downloading or talking too loudly about tor or tails puts you on a watch list.
They don’t even have to follow up on that more than a couple times for the chilling effect to drive people away from using it. Without a large enough user base, we’re spread too thin to affect change.
If the current system ever identifies federation as a threat, it’ll happen.
Literally everyone is on a “watch list” to the point that that term is now very dated.
I agree that them going after you on an ISP level is also a problem, for which we need more decentralized mesh networking as well. But in practice, sharing albums has also pissed off corporations for a long time and they’re still unable to stop that.
They don’t go after lemmy. They go after the users. There are several ways, the easiest of which is to make using a federated network an implicit crime.
Like how downloading or talking too loudly about tor or tails puts you on a watch list.
They don’t even have to follow up on that more than a couple times for the chilling effect to drive people away from using it. Without a large enough user base, we’re spread too thin to affect change.
If the current system ever identifies federation as a threat, it’ll happen.
Literally everyone is on a “watch list” to the point that that term is now very dated.
I agree that them going after you on an ISP level is also a problem, for which we need more decentralized mesh networking as well. But in practice, sharing albums has also pissed off corporations for a long time and they’re still unable to stop that.