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What alternatives?
Oh, hey maybe if they ask nicely Russia will let them use VK.
Jokes aside though, the only realistic path Europe has here is to start massively funding open source platforms. I read there's a bit of that happening, but really it should be done on a far bigger scale. Stuff like Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, or even Odysee, can easily become as good as any commercial offering with even modest state backing. Meanwhile, stuff like NextCloud can completely replace Google services. LineageOS could be developed as a standard mobile operating system, and so on. It wouldn't even be that hard to do because a lot of these projects are already fairly mature and proven. Imagine if the EU spent a fraction of the money burned on Ukraine doing this stuff for the past three years.
True. Though i'm a bit wary of some of these alternative platforms as well. Like i think i just read something about some top guy at Rumble becoming the new deputy director of the CIA? That doesn't happen unless they were already deep in the intelligence apparatus, which makes you think...how many alternative platforms are similarly infiltrated?
Rumble isn't open source though as far as I know. It's just an alternative to youtube that's run by US right wingers.
Odysee is open source and decentralized. Journalists who expose U.S. Government wrongdoings should use it.
yeah it's a really solid platform I find, doesn't get enough attention