I bet the Kremlin is sponsoring one at least
Comment on There are probably fediverse instances being run by governments for surveillance purposes
jqubed@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t think they really need to run an instance to conduct surveillance on the Fediverse. Maybe it makes things easier, but a lot of this is public anyway. Just because Google isn’t putting a lot of this in search results yet doesn’t mean it can’t be scraped by people who are interested in scraping it.
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 week ago
delusion@lemmy.myserv.one 1 week ago
Running free instances is a) way easier if you’re a government, and b) gives you important moderation control.
Also, a government running an instance that allows and promotes material that is very critical of said government could very well happen. It might sound contradictory, but allows for future control over “problematic” movements, if the need ever occurs.