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3 days ago“Free speech absolutists” trying to limit the free speech of others. Classic.
atro_city
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Cake day: August 5th, 2023
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~~What’s the name for this type of news just meant to anger? But if it makes us dislike the US more, maybe I’m for it? ~~
After reading the article, he is right. The title is just shit
US Vice President JD Vance called on Europe to show greater independence in an interview published on Tuesday, urging countries not to be “US vassals.”
We should stop being US vassals.
Von der Leyen affirmed in the article published on Tuesday that US weapons, which could be technically disabled from Washington, could still be purchased.
What the hell is wrong with you? Did some US lobbyist promise to depose a few million into her offshore accounts?I was rage-baited. Instead, my reaction should’ve been: what can we do? Should we send her emails? Toot at her or the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ? How do we make it clear to her that it’s extremely unwise to let the US into the military supply chain of the EU?
I think it’ll be more difficult to fake and account of the European commission for example as the domain cannot be captured. An official instance or person will have
@officialdomain.euor something. And mastodon doesn’t have downvotes.As for bot instances, those could be blocked by other instances. It wouldn’t surprise me if government instances implemented a blocklist or a functionality to only allow communication or interactions with approved instances. There is a lot that governments will be able to do, but with Xitter, Facebook, and so on, they first have to debate thing, tell the site to do something, go through the appeals process, and so on. Owning the instances would allow them to take action much more quickly.
The EU should be promoting the shit out of opensource platforms and dumping millions into them both for content and development.
Subsidise media made by companies wholely owned by Europeans and add a clause forcing them to distribute on European platforms that host in the EU and are made available all across the EU without geoblocking. Massively promote those EU platforms on foreign social media (which is pretty much all we have at the moment) e.g pay for ads on youtube, insta, tiktok, and so on to “watch this on peertube” or whatever else EUropean we have.
Also, what a shit headline. It’s not pointless, it’s one of the many things Europe has to do. Stop expecting perfection. Doing something is better than nothing, but you have to start somewhere instead of planning for perfection and never starting.
I’m not sure I can bring myself to create an account on that site. I can’t listen to people whine about how difficult it is to pick a server. “ergmagerd, the choices I have to make are so difficult :cry: :cry: :cry: why do I have to choose between a generalist, furry, lgbtq and tech server :tears: :tears: :tears:” and the “it looks like shit” people who forget how old.reddit.com looks like.
Nah I’m good.
Germany… what have they voted for FFS? Why are they so ardently supporting genoci- oh… now I get it.
Being anti-zionist =/= being anti-semitic. You’re good.
I can only hope that the new coalition tries to improve people’s lives and thus removes reasons for the AfD to exist. Otherwise the next elections are going to be a disaster.
feddit.au would not make sense, last time I checked Australia is not a german speaking countr.
Austria. Dunno what their domain is.
Cheers to that!
I mean that the .org ending makes it look like something international. If I’m not mistaken .org stands for organisation. So it’s like visiting “The Feddit Organisation”, but the instance is primary German. The sidebar of the instance is German first, English second. It’s just confusing and IMO also misleading. They could’ve picked “lemmy.de” or “feddit.au” or something similar.
I would be careful with the “centralist mindset”. Centralization towards instances or towards communities are very much different things.
Is disagree. It means to me that there is still a preference for centralisation in the mind, which is limiting. Thinking the same will lead to the same outcome. Just like the people who left twitter, went to mastodon, immediately went “but this isn’t twitter, why isn’t this twitter?” and started demanding all the twitter features that made twitter toxic in the first place.
If you think centralist in a federation, you will always feel uncomfortable and push for centralist ideas, ideals, and goals.
I’m not the creator of the instance. I just happened upon it and thought it’d be cool to share.
Pertaining empty and small communities, that’s how most communities start: one person creates it, people find it and contribute. Most don’t just go from 0 to thousands of contributors and followers in a second. It takes time.
Also, I don’t see multiple communities on different instances as a problem. We’re on the fediverse, not reddit. There doesn’t have to be one single “Europe” community. There can be a Europe community on a Europe loving instance, on a Europe hating instance, on an Italian instance and thus posting in Italian or from an Italian perspective, on a teddy bear instance that just talks about European teddy bears, whatever. It seems to me like the centralist mindset is still very ingrained in people despite being in a different place.
Also, I don’t understand the feddit.org thing. Why is a German instance “feddit.org” as if it’s the main feddit instance?
That the US government can turn off at any time they want.
I’m sure they’ll be welcomed with open arms. Just don’t got to Germany or the French countryside and you’ll be fine 👌
As much as I like Canada compared to the US, they are not European by any stretch of the imagination. I’d be for free trade and free movement as a beginning, but part of the European Union is a bit much.
Nothing personnel kid
Maybe the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu is in a good place to enforce a cross-border payment system.
I just noticed that it’s not just for EU citizens! Non-EU citizens can also fill in the questionnaire a comment!
I seriously hope this won’t be used a negotiating material. “You let us bend you over the table and stick this Malus in, in return, you should be greatful we want to do business with you”.