Yesterday I wrote: "Public institutions are funded by taxpayers' money: their communications serve public interests and should be open to all - without the need of creating social media accounts on proprietary, for-profit closed systems. This is especially salient for European governmental communications: isn’t it absurd that they would require social media accounts owned and run by U.S. based companies?"

Credit goes to @samvie for suggesting I add the bit "funded by taxpayers' money" 🙏

To move away from the corporate "socials" like Insta, Youtube, X/Twitter etc to decentralised social networks - mainly the #Fediverse - the challenges not only include the provisioning of the tech. Indeed, people like @elena do a great job to show how nice the #Fediverse is, and how #selfhosting is fun and doable.

That said, the barriers to entry for people are largely cultural: the decentralised nature makes it hard for people to choose one of the thousands of servers, of Mastodon, PixelFed, etc Starting at https://joinfediverse.wiki isn't an entry point for everyone. (however great resource it is!)

Moving from the corporate socials to the fedi, many people need help. Fortunately collective actions like #MakeSocialsSocialAgain in NL, #SaveSocial and #DIdays in DE, #VamonosJuntas in ES, #LeaveX in FR etc help mobilise people to make the change together. That's necessary to overcome network effects and (re)connect through our networks.

Transitioning from their tech to #ourtech