Western or eastern are just labels of affiliation, such as in team sports. But in the world of security Teams are irrelevant. Something is either good enough or it isn’t. And that measurement is liable to change over time as you gain knowledge and the proverbial landscape changes.
In tech it is best to not trust anyone, zero trust as it is. But that seems imposible so we all make our own compromises. my recommendation would be
a) try to change something in your own (government) structures
b) lay low when using anything where you have to trust someone, be that any google, facebook, microsoft etc. service, yandex, duckduckgo, telegram, threema, any e-mail service (even proton mail, tutanota…), most cheap and easy VPN services, malware services, AI-Services…
c) look for connections in spaces where trust is mininal, such as open-source-software, self-hosted-services, I2P and Tor, torrenting.
lemmy is a special case, where anyone can launch a server and communicate with other servers on a completely tdifferent level as in other places, as such it allows for higher security standarts and will less quickly fall to big-moneyd interests and singular government overview and control.
how so? is it the weird sentence structure?