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Yes. They absolutely do know and care and there are likely a few among us, even as normal users.
I'm on a lot of lists for a lot of reasons, I'm certain.
I'm not a bad person, though i have done some bad things. And I'm not a good person, though I've done some good things.
How the state sees those do not always parallel.
I appreciate my privacy - I'm a reformed tech evangelical apostate, sometime political actioner, and aware of the mass nonconsenting harvest at every turn.
I am on a lot of lists as well, I can say that probably a lot if not all of my email addresses are being monitored (200+) and a lot of CPU power is being wasted on seeing the spam that is going to those addresses. I am under no illusion that I am not being watched, but what I am saying is using the fediverse is probably seen as noise, not a list item yet. Fedivervse things are not yet targets for people who are not techy people trying to escape capitalism.
I am very open about how people should move away from big tech and move to OSS and I wish more people could reasonabily move to open source hardware as well, but we are aways away from that yet.
I am fairly certain that getting off of advertiser lists also put me on watch lists, I am sure there are CPU cycles being wasted on seeing my normal everyday internet from trackers that are to high up that my pihole and other ad/tracker blockers cannot block. I am sure I started being on lists way back in the day that I got the red hat for dummies book and started learning about linux.
I was almost certainly put on a list in high school when I found a way to look into the system at my high school to see how their website blocker worked and found a way around it. I am sure I was put on a list when I was in University and started studying the psychology and sociology crime. I am sure I was put on a list when I had my ID stolen and I made the stupid decision to have my credit locked, rather than just monitoring it. I am sure I was put on a list when I had my name and gender marker changed. I am sure I was put on a list for 100’s of other things to.