A number of US based companies own datacenters in Europe.
Thankfully, my hosting site is a cooperative, based in France and pretty much committed to keeping under the EU legal umbrella.
US hosting or even traffic thru their backbone connections is surely subject to their draconian intelligence agencies and laws.
@rgx @hansw @globcoco Indeed but people seem to be blind or just deny it happens. They don't get why I don't want to use facebook, or google. Still argue no one they know uses the fediverse, I have made new friends here who I have proper conversations with. That is a big win for me, same as science forums I am discussing some really cutting edge science on there, down to some more basic science questions people are happy to help with.
@zleap
That is the best we can do; changing the masses will require major problems and inconvenience for them. And would change this place as well.
I haven't been around here much, mostly at Reddit those days where I have some interesting subs to read and post on.
@hansw @globcoco