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Honest question: Why don't we have a UN-operated global social media that is used by all officials worldwide, instead of them using privately owned social media?
For a more general social media, you’d have to get Russia, China, various European nations, and the US to agree on something.
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Here in the Netherlands, WhatsApp has the defacto communication tool. Everyone is expected to have it installed, not just by friends but also municipals and companies. Same level as having an e-mail address. It's a missed opportunity for the digital soverignty the EU says it so badly needs. The code for a government backed WhatsApp competitor is there, in multiple instances even. Launch a WhatsApp clone and put all g…
Which is one of the many many reasons Zuckerberg needs to be investigated the hell out of for every single thing he does I grant you 2014 is 12 years ago now and you could plausibly argue it was their doing to grow network effects but I'm pretty sure WA had that infrastructure already in place - Acton, Koum et al already did the ground work to get carriers to... whatever it is Zuckerberg stole it like he steals every…
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The problem is that an EU-mandated digital communicating tool would look like the Minitel. Anyone remembering the French minitel?
I think it was quite good for the 1980s, it just got stuck there.
In this, I trust the government way less than either the open source movement or the actual Silicon Valley. Both of the latter are much better at iterating of their designs when a new idea comes along.
I used Twitter for over 10 years without an account then suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted and no longer an option. Reddit is now this way too. But I find it ridiculous that Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable without being logged in (and in some cases requiring an app inst…
The US House of Representatives posts their live hearings exclusively on YouTube. This is information that should be ungated and freely available, yet is a pain to acquire or archive because YouTube absolutely does not want you getting to the raw video.
I don't understand how this is legal, honestly.
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Here in the Netherlands, WhatsApp has the defacto communication tool. Everyone is expected to have it installed, not just by friends but also municipals and companies. Same level as having an e-mail address. It's a missed opportunity for the digital soverignty the EU says it so badly needs. The code for a government backed WhatsApp competitor is there, in multiple instances even. Launch a WhatsApp clone and put all g…
Why not just a website?
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I think my main communication is probably the last tool that I want to be government backed tbh.
what country are you from that you trust US corps more than your own government?
The X account of the person running this has been suspended. https://x.com/PeterAndersonE
Doing it and making money from it was always going to end in a ban.
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I think my main communication is probably the last tool that I want to be government backed tbh.
I think the lessons of 2026 must be: - the dangers of fascism are very real - technological choices won't save you from the snatch squads, although grassroots use of tech by communities can help - fascism is extensively promoted by some corporations and their owners - a non-captured government that is willing to push back is much better than relying on corporations - anything headquartered in America is potentially s…
X. It's not twitter anymore
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Here in the Netherlands, WhatsApp has the defacto communication tool. Everyone is expected to have it installed, not just by friends but also municipals and companies. Same level as having an e-mail address. It's a missed opportunity for the digital soverignty the EU says it so badly needs. The code for a government backed WhatsApp competitor is there, in multiple instances even. Launch a WhatsApp clone and put all g…
Eurocrats could never in a million years make it happen. For starters, every country would insist on having its own ChatsApp, with roll out taking years. Then, to satisfy strict security and compliance regulations it would be restricted to devices passing Google & Apple hardware attestation checks. And once everyone is finally forced to be on board, any confidentiality guarantees can go out the window to catch pedos…