there’s almost never THE perfect choice. Those making you believe there’s one of them - those are the one’s that aren’t telling you the whole story in the first place.

Look at the options. Check them with your No-Gos. Focus on what remains - and pick what sucks the least.

You may not be perfectly happy, but an “okay” is WAY better than an “oh…my…god”

if you choose to not pick a side, you already chose a side.

you chose to let others decide upon your fate. And those will rarely choose in your interest.

Reminds me a LOT of a meme I’ve seen on the net a long time ago:

Relationship > No Relationship

BUT!

Relationship > No Relationship > TOXIC Relationship

and as having a good, stable, lasting and healthy relationship seems to be more luck than anything else, choosing the middle path is the choice most take. Because no, there’s no shortage in finding a toxic relationship…

to be fair, I think Apfelstrudel is a very austrian thing.

cool story, bro - but WITH WHAT?

I mean, look at the current state of tech we’ve got in Europe. Look at the Fediverse, which is nice, but about as complex for an average Joe as a fusion reactor. That’s ALSO the reason why Bluesky took off and skyrocketed, but Mastodon - despite being there before - is still WAAAAY behind.

Lemmy the same - the user experience and App situation is ABYSMAL. Hell, I’m glad I don’t have to fill out a form and FAX it to the server operators to get anything through.

Reason is: Though the FOSS community is great, there’s no single design philosophy behind it. Everybody is free to do whatever they please, everything looks a bit different, works a bit different. That’s nice for the fans of individual services and programs, but NIGHTMARE FUEL for said average Joe.

And yes, this average Joe is around 80% of the userbase. Plus - and I bet you already did that whilst reading what I wrote - this average Joe is ridiculed by the communities and developers (like all those Gentoo nerds like to joke about everyone who struggles at writing their own drivers for being losers and shouldn’t be allowed to operate anything digital for instance). THAT is, by the way, THE reason why Linux NEVER took off, never WILL take off for the end users (despite Microsoft providing THE golden opportunity to switch with their dick move on Win10. But well - average Joe prefers to throw bucks into the bin over switching to Linux. Should make you think why…)

Social Media made in Europe won’t work, because we lack those able AND willing to build something modern, “sexy” and easy to use. We’ve got too many people doubting, too many people holding others back, and others who just want to go through with THEIR idea of something, omitting EVERYTHING around them. And because we ignore the userbase.

from what I’ve read, the issue with corruption is EXACTLY the reason why this law was set in place.

masses of cases against all kinds of politicians, police and the latter, cases that remain open and unresolved for years - that’s not really efficient. Plus it seemed the “independent” agency was heavily influenced by russian agents themselves.

However another change/alteration is already being proposed. To me, it looks like an attempt to get rid of these inside jobs and russian influence. A clumsy attempt, but as long as people are able and allowed to protest, are being heard and talked to, we’re on a good path for a free democracy. Anything even remotely similar to that would be unthinkable in russia or even hungary…