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Are any European-based social networks going to pop into existence at this opportune time to get some momentum from the current global western America-is-no-lon
by willvarfar 2y ago
Are any European-based social networks going to pop into existence at this opportune time to get some momentum from the current global western America-is-no-longer-our-friend sentiment?
- mapt 2y agoThere are also more than 7 billion people that aren't in the US or EU. Text microblogging is one of the lowest-bandwidth-requirement, and therefore least-capital-intensive, internet startups.
- cjs_ac 2y agoI think the entire concept of these global social networks is falling out of favour. I expect to see the rise of smaller online communities with well-defined interest scopes and robust community moderation - much like HN.
- BlackFly 2y agohttps://joinmastodon.org/ https://joinmastodon.org/ https://lemmyverse.net/ https://lemmyverse.net/ They are federated as well; I just educated myself on BlueSky, I had heard that maybe it wasn't but it looks fairly federated. Companies can always slap a lock on after the fact though.