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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Every time someone suggests the EU should make their own social media platform, a little part of me dies. You know it would be slow, have weird Guidelines, have 100k downloads and a 3-star rating before disappearing in six months. It would scream “official and out of touch.” What we actually need is private investors, devs who’ve worked on real stuff before (bonus points if they’ve been at US companies as they'd already have experience), and a sane CEO. That’s it.

Democracies are dying because most people now get their information from social media companies that have every incentive to push misinformation. There's a reason the only profitable social media companies* (Meta, ByteDance, Google) are all evil and it's not because they're not European.

* Apparently Pinterest is profitable and I don't know enough about them to call them evil

We need a solid alternative to X or Reddit (first) — not another Instagram clone.
Pics are cute, but people wanna talk first. We need a clean, simple, centralized app that’s actually nice to use, has clear but not overbearing rules, and doesn’t try to shove privacy/eco stuff in your face as a personality trait. And keep the EU out of it. Let actual devs with experience run the show and let the platform evolve like a normal product.

Instagram has 2 billion MAUs, this is purely OP projecting their own preferences. Twitter and platforms like it are actually very niche, they just hold a disproportionate sway over online culture.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Pinterest is evil because it ruined image searching.

I'll search for something, the image result will be pinterest, I'll go to the pinterest page and suddenly the image never existed in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Cool, sounds like exactly the sort of person that would be unhappy on the Fediverse, complain all the time how it "lacks N feature" they want, expect the entire experience to be free and never donate to their instance admin, and just be a general wet blanket.

And so, I won't be sad that they likely never join the Fediverse, and the Fediverse will continue to gradually grow into the healthy, decentralized service it has been for the last several years without them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Just inject a gazillion Euros to the Fediverse in the right way. That's all we need.