Let’s say Dear Leader decides to have the houses of anyone who speaks ill of him (or capitalism) burned down in the night, or their dogs killed, or nefarious files uploaded to their network etc. How easy would that be?
US, of course. I’m actually concerned about this.
I have zero doubt the fediverse is ingested by intelligence and law enforcement. But I would say it is more automated then actual eyes on posts.
Same thought. They probably run a system that scans for trigger words and maybe a real person reviews reports. Other than that, unlikely.
It is hilarious to think that there is an agent whose whole purpose is to surf lemmy instances all day. Dream job for some mods
ICE/DHS was contracting people to do that at one point, and there are fusion centers full of people doing that
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-social-media-surveillance-24-7-contract/
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-new-orleans-online-monitoring-b2c300245ea4ffbef335502245760a1d
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/new-orleans-immigration-online-criticism-tracking
If there is they mod for .world