jeroen, 17 days ago

@ErikJonker
Absolutely concur. You can't talk about data ownership and resilience and at the same time rely on techbros for communicating to your citizens.

tyil, 16 days ago

@ErikJonker Have they considered using more resource friendly #Fediverse alternatives than #Mastodon? There's plenty of choices available, and it seems pretty much all of them do a better job of staying relatively cheap.

The article also includes talk about #PeerTube, and hosting video is known to be rather expensive compared to hosting, well, just text and some images. It would be interesting to see more details on the costs and how it is attributed to each service.

ErikJonker, 16 days ago

@tyil In the end it's not about the amount of money but more about who should pay the bill I think

unlucio, 17 days ago

@ErikJonker funds for independent European Fediverse servers should come from sanctions on digital monopolies.

Make the techbors pay.
It's called "You break it, you pay for it

matv1, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

@ErikJonker What? @vestager @avhuffelen @EU_Commission Sigh..Why are we even doing privacy in europe if we can't do this?