The 10 Billion Centimeter Or Greater Debris Cloud of Kessler.

Community mods and instance admins have similar powers, there will be similar power struggles, corruption and drama here too.

The fact that it will be easy to jump ship wont change the fact that it will be necessary to jump ship from time to time.

Check out r/amateursatellites/ on reddit (sorry, I'm a refugee and unaware if similar exists in the fediverse yet), there are whole communities of people out there who listen to weather sats with antennas in their backyards, it's fascinating.

Nah, you can get images from weather satellites this way, they broadcast unencrypted/with old encryption that has been broken.

Ain't nobody getting a feed from a modern GIS sat, let alone an actual spy sat.

Well for example, I read the other day that 1 in 10 flights taking off from the UK are private jets.