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Europe should ban American social media companies. They'd be doing themselves a favor, and a favor to most Americans as well (who, shareholders excepted, do no
by lupusreal 2y ago
Europe should ban American social media companies. They'd be doing themselves a favor, and a favor to most Americans as well (who, shareholders excepted, do not personally benifit from these tech corps being so massive.)
- mu53 2y agoI think every country should develop their own social media. It would be best if it was federated-like services that smaller countries could just run the plain open source version of. Any democratic country that has a large portion of their population using american social media is essentially a modern US colony.
- fsflover 2y ago> I think every country should develop their own social media. There is Mastodon already, which is federated. EU already set up their own servers.
- johnzim 2y agoIt is federated and it has benefits but the UX is garbage for average people and the actual protocol isn't one that'll scale. You don't need an A+ protocol to get great if your product is good enough / dead simple to use but neither of those things apply to Mastodon, as much as I'd like them to.
- fsflover 2y agoI don't see how Mastodon's UX is worse than the one of Twitter, which is good enough, judging by the number of users.
- gibsonpil 2y agoThat would result in a domino effect that would inevitably result in the internet being segregated by nationality.
- jordanb 2y agoThe walled gardens would be. On the other hand it would likely drive interoperability.
- petre 2y agoAdd Tiktok to those as well. In fact it should be the first one banned along with Meta.