I feel your first paragraph is kind of the opposite of what I was trying to convey. I don’t want my own filter-bubble. In fact I really like being connected to American people, people in Asia and Oceania, maybe Africa…
And yes, there are a lot of ideas floating out there. The EU really doesn’t need to start building something from zero. The Fediverse for example is a nice idea.
I’m always a bit unsure about all the re-posting of memes and stuff. I sometimes feel like Lemmy isn’t about genuine connection, but more a place to dump news articles and things someone thinks is funny and they found somewhere else. Sometimes I think we should work on a bit more original content and genuine human conversation/debate. Maybe our own jokes, culture…
Yeah, I expressed myself oddly, sorry=)) More points toward not posting before drinking my first cup=))
I do agree with you in the sense that we need to start detaching ourselves from the US “materially,” both hardware and software, but we need to offer those as alternatives to what there is, open to anyone and everyone, not just us.
My brain then jumbled it up with, precisely, the Fediverse, because that’s something which doesn’t belong to the US, cannot belong to anyone per se, so it’s a really good thing upon which we could build, with the specific intention of nurturing its unown-ability (sorry…).
With America as it is, the world needs a bastion of freedom, and Europe is in the perfect position to start building that.
As for your last point, yeah, I get that. Honestly, I still try to treat it as a public park, or something, but with more interaction. Sure, it’s not like Facebook in terms of interaction depth, but I think what’s there is enough to keep conversations going. We need open conversations, the Greeks were right with their public forums, I think, and we should encourage as many people as possible to join! Be the change you wanna see and all that!
Plus nowadays it isn’t even all that smart to keep social interactions digital, scrapers still gonna scrape. The added layer of anonymity helps, and I find it allows people to speak their mind more often. There’ll always be bad apples, build around them.
Yeah, I just occasionally like to push against using “Buy European” as a means of becoming nationalist ourselves. And content that could be read that way. I think we’re 100% on the same page.
I feel your first paragraph is kind of the opposite of what I was trying to convey. I don’t want my own filter-bubble. In fact I really like being connected to American people, people in Asia and Oceania, maybe Africa…
And yes, there are a lot of ideas floating out there. The EU really doesn’t need to start building something from zero. The Fediverse for example is a nice idea.
I’m always a bit unsure about all the re-posting of memes and stuff. I sometimes feel like Lemmy isn’t about genuine connection, but more a place to dump news articles and things someone thinks is funny and they found somewhere else. Sometimes I think we should work on a bit more original content and genuine human conversation/debate. Maybe our own jokes, culture…
Yeah, I expressed myself oddly, sorry=)) More points toward not posting before drinking my first cup=))
I do agree with you in the sense that we need to start detaching ourselves from the US “materially,” both hardware and software, but we need to offer those as alternatives to what there is, open to anyone and everyone, not just us.
My brain then jumbled it up with, precisely, the Fediverse, because that’s something which doesn’t belong to the US, cannot belong to anyone per se, so it’s a really good thing upon which we could build, with the specific intention of nurturing its unown-ability (sorry…).
With America as it is, the world needs a bastion of freedom, and Europe is in the perfect position to start building that.
As for your last point, yeah, I get that. Honestly, I still try to treat it as a public park, or something, but with more interaction. Sure, it’s not like Facebook in terms of interaction depth, but I think what’s there is enough to keep conversations going. We need open conversations, the Greeks were right with their public forums, I think, and we should encourage as many people as possible to join! Be the change you wanna see and all that!
Plus nowadays it isn’t even all that smart to keep social interactions digital, scrapers still gonna scrape. The added layer of anonymity helps, and I find it allows people to speak their mind more often. There’ll always be bad apples, build around them.
Yeah, I just occasionally like to push against using “Buy European” as a means of becoming nationalist ourselves. And content that could be read that way. I think we’re 100% on the same page.