It’s not a cost issue. It’s about taking responsibility for maintaining a reliable, highly-available service.

I’m pretty sure a solution will be found eventually. EU institutions need IT infrastructure to work and communicate like everybody else and all EU countries have highly available infrastructure like emergency services, secure channels etc. It’s just a matter of putting this task in the right context.

It’s a very good thing that they’ve stumbled across this snag because solving it can also open the way for running more internet public services in the EU in an open, transparent manner, and may open the way to weaning ourselves off commercial platforms.

Having a distributed, federated, secure, privacy-friendly and open EU-run messaging platform for example would be a huge boon for its citizens and have wide implications for other regions as well.

Their company is attempting to hijack TLS connections to eavesdrop on their browsing.

It only works with websites that also offer a non-TLS version (which the hijacker uses to fetch content and then re-encrypts with their own certificate after they’ve snooped). But it doesn’t work if the website doesn’t have a non-TLS version and/or specifies it should only be used with TLS.

Another way for it to work is for the company to get their own certificates on the machine, which is very easy if it’s a work-issued machine. But I’m guessing OP is not using a work machine.

There should be a reputation score or something for instances. We all like freedom but there’s also gotta be boundaries and consequences.

We’re talking about doxxing, which is private information posted against the person’s will, not necessarily by the person themselves. You can get doxxed even if you do everything right.

And to Wendy’s in Netherlands, which is why there’s no Wendy’s in the EU.

Is Sync not good for you? I stopped app-hopping after Sync came out.

We need a solution for the problem described in the article. It’s annoying everybody and making everything less efficient. Multiple postings of the same topic for several days are just one example.

I don’t think it’s the same with Discord because you already know which server you want to join, even if there are hurdles.

With federated instances you are told they all do the same thing and that it doesn’t matter, but in the same breath you’re told there’s still criteria to consider (number of users, location, some have a main theme etc.)

I’m really surprised it’s not been done already. It should be trivial to do federated authentication with your original instance on any other, and then your account data can be synced just like content is.