Samenerguss, Europeans should not make the same mistakes. Public discourse should not be in the hand of a private company. No matter if its European, us-American or Asian.
Comment on Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W
MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I wish Europe would just embrace the fediverse. The techno oligarchs are not your friends and most of them are invested in the US.
mischk@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
bytesonbike@discuss.online 4 days ago
This is what’s frustrating me the most.
We have a working infrastructure. It’s open source. Please adopt.
tal@lemmy.today 4 days ago
I am somewhat-cynically wondering if the optimal political strategy is to sit on Twitter (which has more European voters to see one’s actions) and loudly complain about a lack of Twitter alternatives (which probably scores points with European voters) than to actually use a Twitter alternative.
Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
It’s a lot harder to demand your government ID on a federated platform.
m3t00@piefed.world 2 days ago
more fedi in europe than usa already. https://fediverse.observer/fediversestats
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
dont get me wrong, but the fediverse from techinical perspective sucks ass, idk what fuck the they were cooking with these protocols
kbal@fedia.io 2 days ago
Well, it's not perfect but it's better than the way federation works on twitter, or X, Bluesky, or — we can probably assume — on W.
Luffy879@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
SWR just made a whitepaper on it, its coming.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 days ago
No country wants to build a tech infrastructure that they don’t control.
0xtero@beehaw.org 4 days ago
It’s kinda sad.
The European Commission even has their own Mastodon instance (ec.social-network.europa.eu), but it seems they can’t get any of the Commission employees or Parliament MPs to use it. It only has 10 account and from what I can see, only one “real” active user, Veronica Gaffey the Director-General, for Digital Services (DIGIT), who isn’t even posting on her real account but under the title @EC_DIGIT_director_general
As far as I know none of the EU member countries have their own Mastodon servers and most politicians at least here in Sweden seem to be using either X or (the technically minded “progressives”) Bluesky, while they complain about American Big Tech.
As always with politicians, actions don’t correspond to rhetoric.
petrescatraian@libranet.de 4 days ago
0xtero@beehaw.org 4 days ago
Ah, thanks I wasn’t aware of those instances. I guess it’s the same old, same old story as always - politicians (in general), even in EU are not really looking to do the “right thing”. They’re looking to do the most populistic thing.
Gust@piefed.social 3 days ago
The politicians go where the people are, not the other way around. It sounds weird but I think a social media platform has to be a good place for folk with low tech literacy to post and chat about cute cat videos before it can ever be politically relevant. I’ve yet to come across a fedi client that I think my mom in her 60s could handle/would find appealing, and I kinda think you need something like that for widespread adoption. If you had a fedi client like that and some incentive to sign up like free lotteries run on the eu server for the first few months to catalyze a critical mass of users, I bet you’d have a fighting chance at breaking away from US social media walled gardens
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I hear that the only users of twitter in Denmark are: tech bros, journalists and politicians
And politicians wanna be where the journalists are
0xtero@beehaw.org 4 days ago
There’s actually a project that tracks EU MEP’s and their X activity leavex.eu/politicians/
Smoke@beehaw.org 3 days ago
Ireland has Mastadon.ie, it’s not official but it is at least a server there.