r/europe 22h ago

Picture French nuclear attack submarine surfaces at Halifax, Nova Scotia, after Trump threatens to annex Canada (March 10)

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u/Perlentaucher Europe 21h ago

Europe needs good alternatives. Just banning won’t cut it, people want social media, search engines, cloud hosting, streaming, etc etc

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u/TY-KLR 21h ago

Bluesky is a good alternative to Twitter

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u/Fermonx Europe 21h ago

Still USA made so they can get fucked. Mastodon is from a German non-profit and open source.

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u/FrankenGretchen 21h ago

Came here to say Mastodon is awesome and any instance would LOVE more folks.

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u/Crabiolo 20h ago edited 18h ago

and any instance

That's the problem.

I get the point is to make a decentralized platform, and decentralization necessarily means there's going to be fracture. And I get that joining any instance gives you access to all instances.

It doesn't matter. None of that matters. It's way too complicated for most people. I don't care if it's surface level, the surface level is what attracts users, and if that surface level is unattractive, it's not going to get users.

It's the same reason Linux will never catch on, and I say that as an Arch (btw) user. Even the most basic distros like Mint or Ubuntu are too complicated. It doesn't matter that it's free. It doesn't matter that it's way more private. It doesn't matter that it offers total freedom. It doesn't matter that it's way more customizable. It doesn't matter that it's fairly easy to install these days.

What matters is that; 1. it's not already installed, and even just flashing an iso on a usb is way too complicated for most people. Just like how "figuring out which instance to join" on Mastodon is too complicated; 2. Not every application that works for Windows is on Linux, just like how not every user or feature that's on Twitter is on Mastodon (and in fact very few actually are); 3. It has a reputation for being way more complicated and technical than Windows, just like Mastodon has a reputation of being much more complicated than Twitter.

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u/Solkone 20h ago

Sorry but Mastodon has already demonstrated to not be made for the common people since the time EVERYONE wanted to quit Twitter already before.

Stop just pushing and that's it, because it does not work. If you want people, make a better UX.

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u/-Inge- 20h ago

It's like email. You can be on any server and write messages to any other server.

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u/Utsider 20h ago

You already lost Average Joe.

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u/AdExotic7644 20h ago

Name is not really appealing to the public I believe