EU :
Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.
We are working on a solution to ensure our continued presence on your feeds, taking full advantage of Mastodon’s identity portability.
And we are even growing the team behind our Mastodon presence, increasing efforts to engage with your comments on our posts.
We are fully committed to being a real part of the conversation in the fediverse.
Interested in our next steps? Follow us as we take on this new chapter.
/me : 🤔
The fediverse really needs key-signed messages.
As long as accounts reside on one server it fails to accomplish its goals, IMO
The Fediverse’s main goal was to be a middle ground between completely centralized and completely decentralized networks, though… So I’d say it has accomplished its goal.
But wouldn‘t the public key need to be somewhere to? At some point down the line you will probably have to trust some server.
No, that’s not how that works.
Users can generate their own keys, and you know it’s the same user as long as they have the same key, even if they’re on different servers.
No certificate authority is required for this kind of use case.
It would be a simple enough feature to code on top of the existing Fediverse
Is there any benefit to it over nostr though? You’d have to link your public key to your account(s) and store a backup of your private key in addition to your regular login/password just to get a more fragmented and less seamless version of nostr. A lot of people already have issues figuring out how fediverse works with multiple instances and all… now they’d have multiple accounts with different credentials to keep track of on top of a meta login/password (pub/priv key). With nostr you only have 1 login/password (pub/priv key) to everything, it’s just long and you can’t change it. At least I think that’s how it works, I don’t really use twitter/nostr/mastodon type of sites.
If they could encourage it at the countries level that would be nice too.
Some German and NL public services have Mastodon accounts IIRC, that’s a first step.
You included the . at the end of the sentence in the URL so it doesn’t work properly.
Thanks for the https://social.bund.de/about link.
This is the way to go. Eu and Europe have to quit US and Chinese closed social media for another solution that can be controlled from Europe.
Yes, agreed. But read the other post and this comment : https://lemmy.ml/comment/10590333 I fear that big tech giant products usage is too strong and only increasing. More and more Google and Microsoft data centers and offices are build in Europe lately. More jobs, less nature, more pollution, less digital sovereignty, more dependency on big tech :(
I thought I saw posts on here from some people suggesting that there were issues with EU law and requirements to be able to delete old messages, which is impossible due to fediverse structure.
Did that get resolved or was that person wrong?
The question hasn’t been legally tested, it’s no more certain now than it was before.
While it might be the case that the EU could come down on a user’s main instance for not deleting everywhere, really it’s no different to anywhere else - any app that uses an API or even just a simple scraper can get comments that a user posts, so as with those it could also simply fall to the user to go around each and every instance and request deletion. Arguably, the Fediverse is better than this because it does include a facility for deleting things from a host instance - the only issue is that the other instance might not necessarily follow that (as instances don’t necessarily run pure lemmy code, in fact they could run anything).
Ban american corporations which still store data on EU citizens on US servers.
