I don’t understand why with such a climate Europeans continue refusing to use European alternatives. Acting like babies, incapable of thought, reaching always for the immediately shiniest object (in this case, „the place where everyone already is“). E.g. the additional use of alternative accounts is „too much effort“.
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2026
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You can use multiple sites. Copy post and browse multiple in sequence, thereby allowing new ones to grow. So not missing out, just a little extra effort.
Your praise our education too much. We're floundering and can very easily head towards collapse. It's an uphill struggle even here, despite Europe seeming a grounded voice of reason for the most part.
It is indeed concerning that people are missing this minimum of awareness. But it’s fixable. It’s not difficult to understand, if communicated properly.
My recommendation is that everyone should simply delete their social media accounts. If it turns out to be too much, they usually have like 1 - 2 months (wtf even is up with that) period, where the account gets restored if you log back in.
There is no need (and to be honest, no one even cares) to share whatever you are sharing in whatever platform you are in
I promise it you will feel a lot better
This, and Linkedin, are the only social media I have left. It’s better, but I never was big on them so I’m not missing much anyway.
Would be a shame if somehow those packets for the IPs of obviously criminal cartel members servers got dropped at the internet backbone routers.
How much faith does anyone have in the EU Commission?
I have very little.
The very fact that these companies are allowed 'privileged access' to the commission disgusts me.
Lobbying in all of it's forms should be banned, it 100% goes against our supposed democracy.
Lobbying I itself is not necessarily a bad thing. Legislator’s often need the input (or at least hear the arguments) from industry to make better laws.
But I agree with you that it often results in the industry writing the laws…
Hi there, hope you are doing great today!
I’ve decided to give my social‑media habit the boot. For good. From now on I’ll stick with Lemmy, Lone Earth, and any EU alternatives that prove useful to my needs —especially a WhatsApp replacement (but not Threema; any ideas?).
Everything else is being systematically disabled until my friends catch on and migrate to the European options I’m using.
Frankly speaking; I was “addicted” to the endless scroll, and only a radical overhaul will break the cycle.
Goodbye to X, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, Facebook—and soon WhatsApp and Youtube.
My new routine: swap mindless scrolling for productive pastimes. Let the "U.S. tech giants" try to keep me hooked—they’ll fail while I lose myself in a good book.
All the best to us all,
e.
Why not Threema?
Some do not want to pay for it...
any Latvians here, we need to return to draugiem.lv!!! :D i still have my og account!