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Tad Lispy

@ tad_lispy @lemm.ee

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  • Where should we move the community to?

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  • Thank you! Everyone on our side agrees to move to europe.pub. So it's decided!

    Do I understand correctly that there is no automated way to migrate a community in Lemme? I just have to create a new one on your instance and make an announcement here for everyone to know? And maybe cross-post everything from here too? Any advise?

  • Where should we move the community to?

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  • We are leaning towards europe.pub, because it's a smaller instance (so moving there increases distribution of Fediverse), it has awesome name and good values. One concern I had is that there is only one admin (@tfm@europe.pub), but after having a wholesome conversation with them I'm confident it's going to be a good new home for us. At Esc Co. we have a collective meeting later today and will make a final decision about the move.

  • Big Tech fines tracker | Proton

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  • Yes, thank you! It's fixed now.

  • European Systems Collective @lemm.ee
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    Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers

    arstechnica.com /security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/
  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    How to market switching to FOSS and EU service providers?

  • European Systems Collective @lemm.ee
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    How European countries want to reduce their dependence on Microsoft

    www.heise.de /hintergrund/Wie-europaeische-Staaten-ihre-Abhaengigkeit-von-Microsoft-reduzieren-wollen-10365345.html

  • Big Tech fines tracker | Proton

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  • European Systems Collective @lemm.ee
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    Big Tech fines tracker | Proton

    proton.me /tech-fines-tracker
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  • Advertising predates tracking by millennia. We can have online advertising without tracking, and certainly without this orgy of sharing data between 4353 partners. But market alone won't get us there, because whoever offers advertising without tracking and selling data will be at a huge disadvantage compared to the crooks who sell. Only regulatory action can help. So this small step should be celebrated.

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  • Then what are you talking about? I didn't downvote your post, but probably like people who did, I have trouble understanding your point. Everyone online - privileged and underprivileged alike - is under omnipresent surveillance of countless actors. Until very recently this was completely unregulated. Information about our behavior, interests, opinions, relations, health, anxieties and dumb shit we post in moments of confusion, is gathered, sold, recombined and resold. The rich and powerful are doing it in hope of gaining ability to predict and change our behavior - i.e. gain more power over us. So just because you are more privileged then some, you should not care? Or not appreciate that something good, even if small and insufficient, happened about this awful situation?

  • Meow?

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  • You're welcome 🤗

  • Atheist Memes @lemmy.world
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    Meow?

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  • It's not about advertising. It's about spying on our online lives. Not the same thing.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Migrating communities in the wake of the lemm.ee shutdown

  • Breaking Free From Social Media Silos With The Fediverse

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  • Sure. It's in our nature to surround ourselves with like-minded people. Back in the old days, people would subscribe to a newspaper, watch TV and listen to radio stations, or go to pubs with folks they felt comfortable with, and that would often lead to gruopthink. There is only so much we can do about it with different platforms. The rest is up to us, individually and collectively. Being polite, open minded, thoughtful and critical takes effort. But it's also in our nature.

  • Breaking Free From Social Media Silos With The Fediverse

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  • What you wrote is probably true, but it's not the end of the story. Ownership model of corporate social media creates incentives to polarize and divide people. It drives engagement and creates moats. Also, billionaire owners of those media have their own political goals, and are happy to use the platforms they own to advance them.

  • Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care

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  • Fuck incels! Not literally, of course.

    Why not? It would cure them 😉

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Tad Lispy @lemm.ee

    Breaking Free From Social Media Silos With The Fediverse

  • European Systems Collective @lemm.ee
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    Trump recommends 50% tariff on European Union starting June 1

    www.cnbc.com /2025/05/23/trump-recommends-50percent-tariff-on-european-union-starting-june-1.html
  • European Systems Collective @lemm.ee
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    Kan Trump Nederland digitaal platleggen? | LUBACH

  • Europe's race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online | Johnny Ryan

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  • I will remove any comment promoting or excusing fascism and violent ethno-imperialism or spreading obvious lies. Engaging in discussion with people (bots?) who are clearly ignoring reality and cherry picking irrelevant facts is a waste of time and everyone's attention. Russian war propaganda trolls like the bunch of you are not welcome here.

  • European Systems Collective @lemm.ee
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    Does Europe Need Its Own Social Media Platforms?

    vid.freedif.org /w/3AXnjjHnYBFsJKmafjiYri

  • Europe's race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online | Johnny Ryan

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  • It's probably the same for politicians. They are looking for widest reach. It's not only about posting. To be effective, they need to moderate and engage with comments, which is harder to automate. Also, they might just not know about fediverse platforms (lack of marketing). In that case the solution would be to promote fediverse among users, European business, organizations and politicians.

  • Europe's race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online | Johnny Ryan

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  • Then it's important to identify the reason it doesn't take off. Is it inherent to fediverse (in which case we would indeed need a new platform) or is it external. For example proprietary platforms have marketing and lobbying.

  • Europe's race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online | Johnny Ryan

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  • Just to make sure, you do realize that Russians invaded Ukraine and Ukrainians are fighting a defensive war, right?

  • Europe's race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online | Johnny Ryan

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  • Fediverse?

  • European Systems Collective @lemm.ee
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    Europe's race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online | Johnny Ryan

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/apr/15/us-europe-military-spending-trump-ireland
  • European Systems Collective @lemm.ee
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    CLOUD Act - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CLOUD_Act

  • Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

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  • Another interesting quote from the article. Microsoft President Brad Smith adds:

    In the unlikely event we are ever ordered by any government anywhere in the world to suspend or cease cloud operations in Europe, we are committing that Microsoft will promptly and vigorously contest such a measure using all legal avenues available [...]

    So they are seriously considering a possibility of an export ban for digital services 😯

  • Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

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  • Frank Karlitschek, CEO of Nextcloud, told us in March, "The Cloud Act grants US authorities access to cloud data hosted by US companies. It does not matter if that data is located in the US, Europe, or anywhere else."

  • European Systems Collective @lemm.ee
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    Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

    www.theregister.com /2025/04/30/microsoft_getting_nervous_about_europes/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    The Hippocratic License 3.0: An Ethical License for Open Source.

    firstdonoharm.dev
  • European Systems Collective @lemm.ee
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    Firefox, VLC, Gimp, KeePass, LibreOffice among open source software endorsed by French Government

  • European Systems Collective @lemm.ee
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    The US government can access many political emails in Europe

    republik.ch /2025/03/31/die-us-regierung-hat-die-moeglichkeit-auf-viele-politikermails-in-europa-zuzugreifen
  • European Systems Collective @lemm.ee
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    'March to independence': Christine Lagarde wants EU to ditch Visa, Mastercard for own platform

    www.businesstoday.in /world/us/story/march-to-independence-christine-lagarde-wants-eu-to-ditch-visa-mastercard-for-own-platform-470816-2025-04-05
  • European Systems Collective @lemm.ee
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    Europe must end reliance on US technology - Christine Lagarde

    www.newstalk.com /news/europe-must-end-reliance-on-us-technology-christine-lagarde-2150867

  • Europe must end reliance on US technology - Christine Lagarde

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  • Don't listen to the person. Listen to the argument.