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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Let’s not be hasty. There are enough money-hungry people without morals that would jump at the possibility of making money with USAians again if in any way palatable for the public. Look at how quickly big tech bent the knee to Trump and his fascists. They don’t care where the money comes from as long as it keeps flowing.

    To be sure that the US isn’t a threat anymore, it would need another crazy president like Trump who alienates everybody for longer. Without that, well, business as usual will be resumed. Foreign politicians will jump at any chance to pad their pockets too.








  • I just hope they don’t all go to “lemmy.world” or some huge instance. Regardless, even the @eucommission is understanding the value of the fediverse and has its own mastodon instance. The German government is also going more opensource, the Dutch government wants to have an alternative to GitHub that might join the fediverse, France has the DINUM which seems to want to aggressively leave US big tech behind.

    One big problem I see with the EU finally noticing opensource is that they are new to the game and will take lobbying money. Solutions like BlueSky might easily lead them astray, but I seriously hope they will see “developed by USAians” and go “fuck that, we want Mastodon that’s spearheaded by a German non-profit”.

    It’s very imaginable that more duds like BlueSky will pop up to distract from the fediverse and try to grab a piece of the monetary and attention pie the EU has.