If fairly priced it’s a great choice if one has been waiting for Switch Pro

This.

What eventually kills these platforms is “death by thousand cuts”. Enshitification, controversies, legal problems will alienate users bit by bit. Competing services will then make some people visit less and less until they stop coming at all.

These platforms are competing for peoples attention/time which is finite resource.

Hopefully he can safely return to his home country and take a long deserved rest from this all.
It’ll probably take a decade or more to recover mentally from all the shit he has gone through.

I just hope he takes his time to recover and passes the wikileaks torch as all the accumulated resentment and paranoia will probably take a while to shed off. Going all out on anti-american frenzy on social media and whatnot would likely lead to undesirable outcome for him in public eye.

I’m wondering if it was worth the sacrifice. The governments and tech companies are spying more than ever on everyone.

Snowden revelations and Wikileaks have made E2EE pretty much a standard for most internet services. People are also far less naive when it comes to online privacy which has spawned bunch of regulations like GDPR and bunch of investigations on how well services and products handle information security.

While Meta might have ulterior motives for fediverse integration this might also be just one way to comply with Europes new DMA regulation.