If you’re doing anything risky, then you can’t rely on a service like cloudflare.

They are 100% in bed with all of the 3 letter agencies.

If, for whatever reason, someone with power deems your website unpleasant, it will be taken down unceremoniously and any information that links it to you will be used to find and punish you.

Every nation has a ruling hierarchy, and it’s important for those at the bottom to swear fealty to those at the top.

Every adult behaves like a child at some point.

Really? That’s one of the most common behaviors among adults.

I don’t see any glaring issues with ActivityPub that appear to be solved with these alternatives.

The alternatives look like they’re not as open, though, so that leads me to believe they only exist to sucker people who don’t know any better onto yet another proprietary platform.

I’ve noticed a much higher concentration of conservatives on Blizzard games than most others.

Not enough! Clearly

Should it fall upon me?

Would reporting fake products even have an effect? It doesn’t seem like an effective system right now, considering all the fake products that get to be sold.

How come fake products are allowed to be sold in the US then?

I agree, and hopefully this will help put things into perspective.

Theory is not a substitute for experience.

Someone can look at it, it’s implementation, and verify it does what it claims.

Public money, public code.

It’s already been a playground for mods with an agenda.

The good thing is that we can all start up alternate communities without the abuse. The problem is that it’s rare to find admins/mods that don’t abuse their power.