I dont understand why the publishers don't host their own servers. The fediverse is out there, there are ways to request donations, they could work together with opensource devs to have a built in donation system, they can publish everything on opensource platforms.

Instead, they are trying to negotiate with companies that don't give a fuck about them. That's weak. Find your own solutions, find your own sources of revenue. Trying to strike a deal with US tech companies is just negotiating your own demise or giving up power.

checked community, this specific instance of the post is Opensource and not Europe or Denmark so I think it's okay for me to open my American mouth and say: I hope they manage to resist. If Denmark can put up a successful fight, there is hope for the rest of us, including the Americans being crushed under Big Tech.

is the price of sovereignty too high?

No. It's not. I say this as a natural-born U.S. citizen.

It's academic at this point, and probably doesn't need to be said on a social media site like Lemmy, but free and open societies cannot trust the United States government anymore. It is now, and has been since 2016, firmly in the category of every other authoritarian pariah aggressor state on this shithole planet.

Until my fellow citizens and I conduct a 2nd American Revolution to depose the christo-fascist techno-feudalists, the U. S. A. should be considered an existential threat to your country wherever you are, just like the CCP, Putin's regime, the Kim dynasty of dictators of the DPRK, the Islamo-fascists in Iran, the Saudi royal family, <insertAuthoritarianDouchebagsHere>, etc.

No state on Earth is an individual's "friend", to be clear; the pariah states will likely seek to kill you faster and more unscrupulously.

It's time to bring consequences to collaborators. Not just government departments that appoint MS & Google shills, but companies that advertise through Google, Meta etc, and even individuals who use ChatGPT and Google Search.