Hello, I was going to create a post about this. Is there any petition, anything we can do to push for this to happen? can we create one and spread it among eu political parties or organization that can help?
I’d love for more people to join but even if not there’s no going back for me 😅
Good!
Yes! It’s a great thing! The next thing we should aim is to pass laws forcing Government instances (Germany and Netherlands already have) so politicians and institutions use those for their public/social media profiles and abandon X/Twitter/Threads and anything that isn’t decentralized. The mention of Mastodon/Lemmy/Pixelfed in the media (when eg. journalists quote a politician) would attract more users to these platforms. I believe this is truly necessary if we want to keep democracy healthy and have our socials out of the control of crazy billionaires.
I’ve always felt that the Fediverse was perfect for governments and businesses since it disconnects them from a third party allowing them to manage their own distribution of information.
Using Twitter and so on for official government channels was a short sighted decision.
Exactly!
