We’ve got Mastodon for that

if it means we won’t send our personal data freely to the US anymore and will FINALLY start to tax all these american firms laundering their immense profits over here, ripping all of us off in the process - that’s something I’ll whole-heartedly welcome to happen.

…with a sawed-off shotgun, yeah…

oh no - citizens keeing a warmonger in charge and in place are suffering the luxury of being able to buy houses…

…what a shame…

fuck you Donals

fuck you USA

I did notice several of my contacts have Wero active already.

Guess it needs some time. But I’ve got patience

I’ve already activated Wero with my Revolt account. Three clicks and I was done.

Now I’m waiting for places where I can use it

…which is a pity, because Landliebe was and still is a very nice product. Plus their glass containers were ideal for handcrafting. But since they switched over to plastic, they’re quite crap and unusable…

Sorry for what happened. Just fyi - Berlin got the worst police in all of Europe,. They’re even worse than russian police…

there’s almost never THE perfect choice. Those making you believe there’s one of them - those are the one’s that aren’t telling you the whole story in the first place.

Look at the options. Check them with your No-Gos. Focus on what remains - and pick what sucks the least.

You may not be perfectly happy, but an “okay” is WAY better than an “oh…my…god”

if you choose to not pick a side, you already chose a side.

you chose to let others decide upon your fate. And those will rarely choose in your interest.

Reminds me a LOT of a meme I’ve seen on the net a long time ago:

Relationship > No Relationship

BUT!

Relationship > No Relationship > TOXIC Relationship

and as having a good, stable, lasting and healthy relationship seems to be more luck than anything else, choosing the middle path is the choice most take. Because no, there’s no shortage in finding a toxic relationship…

to be fair, I think Apfelstrudel is a very austrian thing.

cool story, bro - but WITH WHAT?

I mean, look at the current state of tech we’ve got in Europe. Look at the Fediverse, which is nice, but about as complex for an average Joe as a fusion reactor. That’s ALSO the reason why Bluesky took off and skyrocketed, but Mastodon - despite being there before - is still WAAAAY behind.

Lemmy the same - the user experience and App situation is ABYSMAL. Hell, I’m glad I don’t have to fill out a form and FAX it to the server operators to get anything through.

Reason is: Though the FOSS community is great, there’s no single design philosophy behind it. Everybody is free to do whatever they please, everything looks a bit different, works a bit different. That’s nice for the fans of individual services and programs, but NIGHTMARE FUEL for said average Joe.

And yes, this average Joe is around 80% of the userbase. Plus - and I bet you already did that whilst reading what I wrote - this average Joe is ridiculed by the communities and developers (like all those Gentoo nerds like to joke about everyone who struggles at writing their own drivers for being losers and shouldn’t be allowed to operate anything digital for instance). THAT is, by the way, THE reason why Linux NEVER took off, never WILL take off for the end users (despite Microsoft providing THE golden opportunity to switch with their dick move on Win10. But well - average Joe prefers to throw bucks into the bin over switching to Linux. Should make you think why…)

Social Media made in Europe won’t work, because we lack those able AND willing to build something modern, “sexy” and easy to use. We’ve got too many people doubting, too many people holding others back, and others who just want to go through with THEIR idea of something, omitting EVERYTHING around them. And because we ignore the userbase.

wenn du mir jetzt noch erklären könntest, wie man bei einem Onlineshop mit Bargeld bezahlen kann, bekommst du nen Küsschen auf die Stirn.

Und nein, Nachnahme zählt nicht

or they convert it into an amusement park like they did with a never operative plant here in Germany.

ich erinnere mich noch dran, wie PayPal versucht hat, Rossmann den Vertrieb von Havanna Club Rum sowie kubanischen Zigarren zu verbieten - mit Verweis auf das US-amerikanische Embargo gegen Kuba und die dortigen Produkte.

Ergebnis: Rossmann hat damals PayPal als Zahlungsdienstleister rausgeworfen - inklusive Pressemeldung.

Vielleicht finden einige andere Plattformen ja auch mal wieder ihre Eier und tun das Richtige…

so - your solution to solve corruption and russian influence is to give more control to these already corrupt bodies?

I highly doubt that would work. But I do agree on what WOULD work: Ask the EU or at least SOME members of the EU to offer support in working against corruption.

Personally, I’d prefer some of these people from scandinavia to look into that matter. They’re known to be the most transparent and advanced one’s in that regard.

let’s not forget Ukraine is in the middle of a war for its own existence.

We all know russian warfare is not just straight-forward and weapon-based, but uses several vectors. Influencing agencies to dissolve a state that’s already “on the edge” from the inside is a very easy way to weaken such a state even further. And from what I’ve read this “russian influence” on the anti-corruption agency was nothing far-fetched, but a real issue.

But let me flip the question to you: How would YOU solve the issue of an “independent” anti-corruption agency, that’s being heavily influenced by russian agents to disable important governmental structures? Give me/us some solutions to that very real and difficult matter.

from what I’ve read, the issue with corruption is EXACTLY the reason why this law was set in place.

masses of cases against all kinds of politicians, police and the latter, cases that remain open and unresolved for years - that’s not really efficient. Plus it seemed the “independent” agency was heavily influenced by russian agents themselves.

However another change/alteration is already being proposed. To me, it looks like an attempt to get rid of these inside jobs and russian influence. A clumsy attempt, but as long as people are able and allowed to protest, are being heard and talked to, we’re on a good path for a free democracy. Anything even remotely similar to that would be unthinkable in russia or even hungary…