As criticism of Instagram, TikTok and X grows in the EU, developers have been working on European social media apps. But can they compete? DW answers the key questions.
Germany the German government doesn’t want to build up an alternative
Still wrong. German politicians and parties have in big parts fled those far-right cesspools. It’s just the right-wing populists that stay there because that’s where they have an audience cheering for their insanity.
So no, it’s not some unwillingness to build an alternative. They are straight out appeasing fascists and staying on that platform because they want to copy their ideas on how to keep in power by dividing the population with a permanent stream of bullshit.
There is only exactly one right-wing playbook and everyone is copying from it.
the CDU stayed, which makes “right-wing populists” a jab.
Do you really want to pretend that the C*U is doing anything else nowadays but populism? They are basically parroting every culture war bullshit the AfD brings up with some delay.
They campaigned on “hard work needs to pay off again” before screwing workers, “no new depts, the country doesn’t have a problem of revenue but on of expenses” before taking on a historic amount of dept, just to waste it all on tax cuts and subsidies for the ultra-rich and actually create a revenue problem, while also loudly announcing to reverse all policies of their predecessors (which usually meant just renaming them without much change - normally just removing all measures making them socially acceptable).
All while rotating so quickly through different groups to blame that the only people they did not insult by now are toddlers and their rich patrons.
They are the posterchilds of promising everything their voters produce in empty bar talk, yet not delivering anything but platitudes and finger-pointing.
So, stay at X and Facebook.
They must know that they had the opportunity to drive traffic to mastodon or lemmy. They also ignored bluesky entirely to make that argument.
In other words,
Germanythe German government doesn’t want to build up an alternative.“Germany” is not a monolith, Mastodon is primarily being developed in Germany and the German user numbers are actually competitive with X and Bluesky.
Fixed that.
I meant that the government could push European social networks much more with its tools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle
This is not a regular public broadcaster but directly in control of the government.
Nope, they are not. It’s a little bit complicated: They are getting funded directly by the government, but are not controlled by them directly.
Sooooo PBS?
PBwhat?
Still wrong. German politicians and parties have in big parts fled those far-right cesspools. It’s just the right-wing populists that stay there because that’s where they have an audience cheering for their insanity.
So no, it’s not some unwillingness to build an alternative. They are straight out appeasing fascists and staying on that platform because they want to copy their ideas on how to keep in power by dividing the population with a permanent stream of bullshit.
There is only exactly one right-wing playbook and everyone is copying from it.
I have heard about SPD, GRÜNE LINKE leaving X, but no headline said where they were going. That was a huge lost opportunity.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/spd-gruene-linke-rueckzug-x-100.html
They moved to Bluesky which is to X like Democrats to Republicans.
Is the movement bigger?
Most importantly, the CDU stayed, which makes “right-wing populists” a jab.
Do you really want to pretend that the C*U is doing anything else nowadays but populism? They are basically parroting every culture war bullshit the AfD brings up with some delay.
They campaigned on “hard work needs to pay off again” before screwing workers, “no new depts, the country doesn’t have a problem of revenue but on of expenses” before taking on a historic amount of dept, just to waste it all on tax cuts and subsidies for the ultra-rich and actually create a revenue problem, while also loudly announcing to reverse all policies of their predecessors (which usually meant just renaming them without much change - normally just removing all measures making them socially acceptable).
All while rotating so quickly through different groups to blame that the only people they did not insult by now are toddlers and their rich patrons.
They are the posterchilds of promising everything their voters produce in empty bar talk, yet not delivering anything but platitudes and finger-pointing.
You are right. First time reading I didn’t put enough weight on populist.