Looks like overworked devs did some pretty bad practice with certs, not as big of a deal as people are making it out to be. https://hackaday.com/2024/03/01/this-week-in-security-forksquatting-rustdesk-and-mms/

Can you please provide any sources for any of your claims?

I did some digging and there’s no real basis for most of these claims. The company seems to be backed by a weird commercial OSS VC, with a founder with a hand in crypto bullshit, but that doesn’t mean that the application is insecure. Also, for what its worth, I couldn’t find any links to China outside of the rendezvous server thing.

I checked the wiki page edits - not sure which one you’re referring to but I didn’t see anything malicous or suspicious.

This article summed it up well https://hackaday.com/2024/03/01/this-week-in-security-forksquatting-rustdesk-and-mms/

TL;DR it’s not an issue

Private social media is your best bet, but if you don’t want your content scraped, the only surefire way is not to post it online. But realistically it’s a risk vs reward scenario, not a black and white one. There are places you could post content and have it be less likely to be scraped, but once it’s out there there’s always the chance.