So, are our governments finally going to see US software as a risk? Because this can shut down entire governments

Not sure tbh, but choosing a more niche instance will at least make your local feed different. Communities in more niche instances might also have less political flow into unrelated posts

It really depends on the instance. The big ones definitely have a lot of politics. More topic-focused instances tend to have less of that.

KFX is such a pain. It’s is one of the reasons I don’t buy from Kindle (the other one being that I don’t want to give Amazon money). I don’t know if this is possible for you, but Kobo ebooks, so far anyway, are much easier to remove DRM from. As a big bonus, you’re not buying from Amazon.

They don’t need Signal to do any of this though, so this doesn’t seem like a very plausible theory.

Bully behaviour