The irony of calling out nationalism in a community named “Buy European”…

“Yeah, we are nationalistic, but not that nationalistic!”

I know, unpopular opinion, just vote me down.

(I agree with the “don’t support Nazis” part independent from the nationalism topic, though)

Kind of, but remember that Europe is not a nation, so I don’t know if nationalism is the correct term.

My issues with snaps are:

• The server software is closed source and centralized
• They create many block devices that can slow down booting the PC.

The easiest way would be to make the ECB a GNU Taler exchange

Lingvanex, DeepL

If you want something open-source/self-hostable there is LibreTranslate

I’m considering self hosting Nextcloud

Check out Syncthing

The second one

Reminder that the Gripen engine is American (General Electric), so they have power of veto over the sales of these aircraft.

The problem with Bluesky is that it’s essentially centralized, with all the related drawbacks.

I think there will be more collaboration regarding protocols between Gnome, KDE and Sway, but one single implementation? Hardly.

Lol, no. Wlroots stuff doesn’t work on Sway and vice versa, then there’s a few extra limited-scope imlementations with the same problem and Weston is reference only.

Sway is based on Wlroots. No way Wlroots stuff doesn’t work on Sway.

We need digital euro. There are advances, but it’s still going too slow.

PWA are always welcome

Probably not

The only (big) difference is that SEPA is controlled by the EU, while SWIFT it isn’t

This does require a SWIFT connection

Do you mean SEPA?

Digital euro is a lot like virtual cash

That’s why I miss Flattr

The appview needs to index the relay contents to build a view of the whole network, the relay is just a type of CDN, and is NOT that expensive. There are multiple individuals maintaining full copies right now, while the network is at double digit millions of users. The relay is by far less expensive.

Great, but how much do these people pay to maintain a relay of the entire network? I bet a lot more than for a fediverse server that only has to maintain a small fraction of the whole network.

There is another problem: these other relays are all copies of the Bluesky relay, where the official app publishes the messages of its users, so they are not independent from each other; if I publish my posts on a relay other than Bluesky’s I will not be able to communicate with them.

The relay is very expensive, it collects and receives messages from the whole network.

The appview it’s not the problem, that’s just an user of the relay.

See this article

Essentially it’s a centralized platform. Independent PDS cannot work without a big expensive relay managed by a large corporation