No, they should be where no entity outside of European jurisdiction can influence their messaging.

The EU commission has their own Mastodon instance. That’s how all public services should do it.

That’s just replies to a post. It doesn’t solve not all posts reaching everybody.

It cannot be “fixed” unless you centralize into a single firehose like Xitter and Bluesky.

Those of us running smaller instances can choose to use relays and fetcher-tasks - and there is a PR to put one such fetcher into Mastodon - but if the goal is 100% of everybody always sees 100% of the content then no decentralized solution will ever offer that.

“Slight” difference in bandwidth between these cables and Starlink.

If you know better than Dr Mann perhaps you should publish a few papers?

It sounds more like you’re one of those doomists he describes.

Tell that to Michael Mann, perhaps one of the most distinguished climate scientists:

“Actually, the warming of the planet is very much in line with early climate model predictions. Some impacts, such as ice sheet melt and sea level rise, and the slowdown of the ocean ‘conveyor belt’ are exceeding those predictions.” Current policies alone likely keep warming below 3°C (5.4°F), nowhere near the “worst-case” scenarios.

https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2023/09/climate-doomism-disregards-science

Why do you need to understand any of that? Now, none of it is wrong - but it’s not something anyone signing up at a Mastodon instance absolute must know about to use the system and have a good troll-free social network experience.

On the contrary. Maybe those are exactly the things needed to avoid becoming Xitter. Bluesky is rapidly becoming another instance of the hellhole at this very moment.

What do you need to understand about the technical concepts? Join an instance (mastodon.social if you have no reason to select another one), post and follow.

Bluesky isn’t decentralized - and might never get there.

setting up a Relay requires around 4.5 TB of disk space, and that it’s growing by around 18 GB a day

https://anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-bluesky-has-won

Until there is another instance it’s not federated.

We’re seeing a substantial increase on the Mastodon instance I help moderate too, but there’s no aggregate marketing department at Mastodon so we don’t get any headlines.

You want Matrix. Synapse if you intend to host for others, Conduit if you just want to host for yourself. There are quite a few different clients but I do indeed use ElementX on mobile.

I think this would be a good time for you to study the subject you intend to discuss.

In February 2015, Russia and Ukraine signed the Minsk II agreements

Beginning in 2021, there was a massive Russian military buildup near Ukraine’s borders, including within neighbouring Belarus. Russian officials repeatedly denied plans to attack Ukraine.

• Wikipedia

So if Russia and Ukraine instead sign a peace deal with borders similar to where they are now, and Russia doesn’t invade the rest of europe and Georgia, will you do any introspection?

In 2014 Russia invaded Crimea and the easternmost part of Ukraine. Then said the had absolutely no intention of expanding.

Cue 2022.

At which point did you do your introspection?

Shops in Sweden very often state that they don’t accept cash - and it’s perfectly legal for them to make that choice.

We have cash?

o_O

Haven’t used it for years.

Troll comment.

You do that - you die.

Please show me that guideline, anywhere.

/Swede living in the deer countryside

It’s so sad considering they just now managed to bring out the best EV on the market (ID.7) - and will refresh the older range to the same standard.

Ex global Head of Software here:

No.