ikuturso 🇪🇺

Since many Europeans seem to be interested in limiting their exposure to US services I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to have an EU-based Mastodon instance that is privacy first and specifically set up to limit US instances in order to avoid people's posts from propagating too much on them (or at all). Call it Eurosk... Eurodon or something.

Another thing that might be useful is just guides for what what can be done and how for your account.

#digitalsovereignty #europeanalternatives

Mar 14 at 12:33pmWeb
Show threadEvi SchreckMar 14
@ikuturso : Some questions come up: what are the resonons to limit exposure to US services? How do you clearly identify a service in a geo region, especially if the don’t want to be discovered? How can you take control over a decentralized network, that your messages are spread?
P.S. I can remember the early days of internet, when we used NNTP to share stuff and it was impossible to control - what we were happy of.
Show threadikuturso 🇪🇺Mar 14

@evischreck all good questions. I think for the first one it's general distrust in USA (rule of law, international commitments like DPF etc.) as seen in the move away from US digital services in general, you'd probably want to extend this to all countries that are not viewed as having adequate data protection by the EC at least. You might even adopt a whitelisting & manual checks approach for this.

Unless really going maximalist you'd probably see it as limiting exposure rather than eliminating