it includes a halt on publishing scientific articles as well, so there is a currently a moratorium on federally-sponsored research/knowledge being open source (which is like…the whole point of having federally-sponsored research)

I am at one of these agencies. This includes a pause on scientific publications to journals

Far more concerning is the fact that anybody (or country, company, etc) on the planet with enough money can now directly bribe the us president through crypto

Reddit userbase absolutely skyrocketed when Obama (then president) did an AMA. The site was never quite the same after that

the Chinese state is censoring and fencing off some of the content there as a result. Source?

tiktok has(d) developed into a hivemind where tens of millions of people (or more?) can be a part of a discussion. This made it easy for trends to spread rapidly, such as deciding where to migrate with the impending tiktok ban. From my own experience on tiktok, the last few weeks there was much discussion of where to go, and it appears the hivemind settled on rednote.