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Where should we move the community to? in c/esc@lemm.ee
Where should we move the community to? in c/esc@lemm.ee
[–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thank you! Everyone on our side agrees to move to europe.pub. So it's decided!

Do I understand correctly that there is no automated way to migrate a community in Lemme? I just have to create a new one on your instance and make an announcement here for everyone to know? And maybe cross-post everything from here too? Any advise?

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    [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    We are leaning towards europe.pub, because it's a smaller instance (so moving there increases distribution of Fediverse), it has awesome name and good values. One concern I had is that there is only one admin (@tfm@europe.pub), but after having a wholesome conversation with them I'm confident it's going to be a good new home for us. At Esc Co. we have a collective meeting later today and will make a final decision about the move.

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    Where should we move the community to? (lemm.ee)
    submitted 1 year ago by to c/esc@lemm.ee
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    The lemm.ee server that was so generously hosting us is shutting down. We need to find a new home. I'd like it to be:

    1. running in EU
    2. backed by a bigger team (so it's not so likely to shut down too)
    3. not federated with instances known to tolerate disinformation or trolling

    I've been recommended to use PieFed instead of Lemme, on the account of better moderation tools and community migration feature (mittigating point 2) but I didn't really have much time to look into it. Any suggestions? I want to make a decision by Friday.

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    Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers (arstechnica.com)
     

    Tracking code that Meta [USA based owners of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp etc. - Tad] and Russia-based Yandex embed into millions of websites is de-anonymizing visitors by abusing legitimate Internet protocols, causing Chrome and other browsers to surreptitiously send unique identifiers to native apps installed on a device, researchers have discovered. Google says it's investigating the abuse, which allows Meta and Yandex to convert ephemeral web identifiers into persistent mobile app user identities.

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    How to market switching to FOSS and EU service providers? (lemm.ee)
     

    As some of you know a few good people and I are starting a co-op to help European organizations switch from USA big tech to FOSS software and EU based service providers. Thanks for all the supporting words and early feedback. I'd like to draw from the well fediverse wisdom again.

    My hypothesis is that in Europe there is some number of business owners and organizations who want to change (for example they hate Trumpism or want to support local businesses), but they don't know how and would pay for support. That's who we want to reach. It might be a minority, but enough to feed our team.

    Do you think it's a sound hypothesis? If so, how can we verify it?

    Logotype of Esc Collective - supporting European digital independence
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    How European countries want to reduce their dependence on Microsoft (www.heise.de)
     

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/24112791

    Trump is driving European governments to Microsoft alternatives: What Germany, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria are planning.

    With Ukraine's cold position, rapprochement with Russia, and its tariff policy, US President Donald Trump has startled the Europeans – and fueled the discussion about digital sovereignty. The risks of dependence on American tech companies have suddenly moved up on the political agenda, not only in Berlin, but also in other European capitals.

    The discussion has many facets, because US companies such as Microsoft, AWS, Google, Oracle, Broadcom and OpenAI dominate in numerous areas of IT, from hardware to cloud services to operating systems and (AI) applications. In some segments, however, Chinese suppliers such as Lenovo and Huawei also have a strong position, just like the Europeans themselves, for example with ASML or SAP.

    An IT world without dependencies on third parties would not be conducive to productivity and prosperity and anyway unrealistic, after all, there is hardly any know-how for the increasingly complex products in hardly any company. But the dependence on Microsoft's software and cloud services is particularly concerned about many European politicians. If the company is forced to shut down cloud services like 365 due to orders from the US government, the impact would be drastic: ministries and agencies with 365 subscriptions could not even chat or email from now on.

    If Microsoft no longer provide security updates, sooner or later all users of Windows and the "On-Premise" (i.e. on customer hardware instead of the cloud) ongoing variants of Office and Exchange got into trouble. Microsoft's plan to offer Offices only in the cloud in the future puts additional pressure on Europeans. And the switch to other providers is complicated, among other things, by the fact that management applications such as e-file programs are interwoven with Microsoft Office.

    Archive : https://archive.ph/2025.04.30-111200/https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Wie-europaeische-Staaten-ihre-Abhaengigkeit-von-Microsoft-reduzieren-wollen-10365345.html

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