Well a .ly pointing to a U.S. datacenter is still going to end badly for those trying to avoid NSA intercept. That's the point of "Federation" by the way. Obvi

Well a .ly pointing to a U.S. datacenter is still going to end badly for those trying to avoid NSA intercept. That's the point of "Federation" by the way. Obviously people could store their data on a machine in a given country, the idea is that federated protocols inherently support that type of arrangement. There's no real way to point something like your Facebook login to be a "Generic Social Media" login to a social network provider of your choice, much like you can point your DNS to your preferred email provider.