I doythink those are as different as you say. Through the Patriot Act, american corporate spying is US spying.

We’ve had capitalism for millennia

No we haven't. The historians that think capitalism started the earliest place its birth in the XIVth century. I think you're confused about the definition of capitalism.

Most people use the official app.

Hamas was elected by Palestinians though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election

Honestly that's good, who cares ?

The NYT has 8.6 million digital-only subscribers. Where's that "100k" coming from ?

Do we know how the wagnerites are reacting ?

Yeah he definitely could have slowly killed the platform without humiliating himself like he is

I think we might follow mastodon's path, with a users spike with each reddit fuckup and then a plateau. But only time will tell.