There is still an active debate about whether Bridgy Fed should be opt-in or opt-out. As far as I can tell, however, they are working on implementing instance-level opt-in, meaning Gargon would have the ability to automatically enable bridging for mastodon.social users.

Most of them are joking about reuniting with their Chinese spy

In all likelihood, Red Note will be banned banned, probably before the Red Note devs add a built-in translate function.

The TikTok ban is something Mark Zuckerberg lobbied for. It’s not a good thing.