NSA? Yes. CIA? Probably not. They don’t have that kind of imagination. c.f., the internal parody of The Hunt for Red October they declassified about a decade ago.
I don’t think JWICS is DoD only. In theory, any TLA or FLA that handles TS material, has a SCIF and a local JWICS LAN can’t be hooked into the rest of the JWICS network.
eChirp is a fork of identica, did you read the article?
the original identi.ca devs are all active with the activity pub protocol project.
all I was saying that I’ve probably been on the 'verse longer than the feds
@JoYo I’m not seeing anything in the article linking #eChirp to the #Fediverse
@JoYo absolutely they would be. They gravitate towards fringe gatherings, partially because that’s where radicalisation generally occurs