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No one cares as long as the end product is worse and doesn't satisfy the users' requirements. If we want people to use non-American alternatives we need to build alternatives that are straight up better, which is exactly what the Chinese managed to do with TikTok.

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Moving from American companies to Chinese ones does not qualify as any progress in the "How much of my online presence do I own" metric.

That’s not what the person you’re replying to said

Yeah, and their response is also not related to the topic at hand. We are not arguing about moving away from US-controlled platforms because we are measuring what is "better". We are talking about leaving US-owned platforms in order to have a sovereign alternative.

Speaking as someone from Europe i remember the time we switched from a local social media site to Facebook on mass because Facebook was a better experience.

So a better platform is a must have if the EU wants the digital sovereign social media to have any traction. Most people just don't care enough about abstract concepts like digital sovereignty to move to a worse platform.

> Most people just don't care enough about abstract concepts like digital sovereignty to move to a worse platform.

Companies care about it, which by extension should make some of their employees care as well.

(Saying this "out loud" made be realize one thing: maybe I should stop trying to make "get out of Twitter and come to Mastodon" happen, and get Communick to focus on companies and recruiters that want an alternative to LinkedIn?)

And they gave an example of China doing so for themselves.

"it's bad that so many people got addicted to Colombian cocaine. Let's push a policy to make the best cocaine in the world so that at least we get to be ones profiting from it."

I agree, I oppose social media as a whole. What's your point?

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