@RustyCrab Linus? Russian maintainers? What happened? I'm unfamiliar. I think the benefits of the open source and libre software and operating system communities are that people can and will fork and develop their own solutions---and preexisting software can be interrogated and investigated for vulnerabilities in privacy and security. These are all concepts very popular and important amongst most users of Linux and the Fediverse. There are also a lot of marginalized groups and communities in this space of tech, not only politically marginalized groups (rightfully or wrongly so, e.g., "Nazis") for whom surveillance is of paramount importance.