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Comment by jqpabc123 | Hacker News Reader

project works to give European citizens and organizations more choice

Ok but why the geographical restriction?

Because European governments are passing/have passed regulations forcing big tech companies to open up their platforms.

(it’s also taking funding from the EU, doesn’t necessarily mean they’re forced to cater only to EU citizens but the combination of these two factors means it makes sense to)

> passed regulations forcing big tech companies

More Euro governance, bleh.

That's a pretty reductive take. Is the European Court of Human Rights "More Euro governance, bleh"?

I'm not gonna claim to know much at all about the ECHR, but this compliance graph from Wikipedia makes it look like a symbolic institution, but one that is largely ignored/ not really respected? Especially given that it's a declining trend, it seems like they may just be doing more and more political theater type stuff instead of "real" work. Anyway, it seems like it could somewhat reasonably fall under "governance bleh" depending on who you ask.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Compliance_with_all_compl...

Have a look at what the Digital Markets Act is, before you judge.

Unless I've missed a very recent change, F-Droid isn't geographically restricted.

Much of the blog post focuses on the DMA and its impact on Europe. I think the phrase you keyed in on, and really the bulk of the post, is just a marketing push for the European market and a bit of SEO trying to get keywords and phrases in there.

Perhaps because EU just passed a law for third party app stores?

It's not restricted, it's a reflection of who funded the effort.

The world can benefit from EU's investment here.

So instead of

   "project works to give European citizens and organizations more choice"

it should more accurately say

   "project works to give *the world* more choice"

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