Or made any kind of commentary on it? Or are they depending on being deathly silent to reduce the chance of anyone finding out?

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    You overestimate the Lemmy US userbase. Only because we speak English doesn’t mean we’re all from the US. Language-based instances like feddit.org for example may be small, but its users engage in the whole lemmyverse.

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      Oh, I am sure most of Lemmy is outside the US. I was saying that, in general, Lemmy (and even Mastodon) is probably too small and difficult a problem for them to want to attack through any systematic method. I think, if anything, they’ll just surveil and punish individual US-based users as opposed to trying to shut down or block instances outside the US.

      It’s one of the advantages of ActivityPub services. Bluesky will be easy for them to attack at the root and I fully expect them to do so, whereas for truly federated services I think the reaction will be “ah what the hell too much trouble, how much harm can they really do.”