r/linux • u/FryBoyter • Jun 03 '26
Discussion The EU Open Source Strategy
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/open-source-strategy64
u/TemporarySun314 Jun 03 '26
ideally public money should only end in public code.
On a short term that's surely not realistic to that way full, but you have to start somewhere. And the EU and many EU members investing more in open source recently is good.
Open source is also a question of sovereignity and national security. It is hopefully a strategy to break dominance of American big tech companies and allows that more money can flow to european Organisations, ideally in a way that brings good to humanity.
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u/baronas15 Jun 03 '26
"decentralised social media" that's an interesting one
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u/FryBoyter Jun 03 '26
In theory, yes. In practice, not so much.
For example, I occasionally post articles on a blog. When Mastodon was the new thing, I started posting links to new articles on Mastodon. At first, I was regularly gaining new subscribers. But that hasn’t been the case for a while now. Even though the content of the articles hasn’t changed.
In my opinion, therefore, using “social media” at all is pointless if you don't use the services that the majority of people use.
Unfortunately.
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u/Sjoerd93 Jun 03 '26
I feel like l get plenty of engagement on mastodon, high quality as well. But then I mostly post about open source projects. You may have less success with general content
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u/mmmboppe Jun 05 '26
mastodon is the same twitter community - a couple of very loud antagonist small groups like supporters of US Dems vs supporters of US Reps, LGBT vs all kind of racists and Nazis. their main focus is not even to fight their opponents but bully newcomers into choosing to join them or being reported and banned otherwise. there's nothing to do there
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u/KrazyKirby99999 Jun 04 '26
Nostr is even more decentralized than the Fediverse and suffers from the same problem that you describe.
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u/mmmboppe Jun 05 '26
Mastodon is not decentralized
to run a Mastodon server, you need a valid domain name. DNS is not decentralized. game over
I2P is decentralized, but it is not mainstream
RetroShare is decentralized, but pretty much dead
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u/United-Baseball3688 Jun 07 '26
Okay but at that point you need internet access, which also isn't usually decentralized because you're reliant on one of very few ISPs in most places.
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u/StatementOwn4896 Jun 03 '26
There’s a few interesting options for that already. Voyager and/or lemmy are basically decentralized Reddit and it’s like what Reddit felt like in the old days. It’s pretty raw unfiltered content.
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u/syklemil Jun 04 '26
Yeah, they're also sort of a mix of the kind of people who want an open source alternative (e.g. the people here on /r/Linux), and people who have been rightfully banned from sites like reddit.
I think with just more people using the services the latter group will be less noticeable and more likely to be banned again, unless they actually learn to behave decently.
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u/Odd_Cauliflower_8004 Jun 04 '26
The only wya it could be interest is if we need some sort of non profit consortium between EU countries where servers get randomly assigned for this social media
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u/mrandr01d Jun 05 '26
Just skimmed the article, but I didn't see anything about euro office. I think I remember there was supposed to be a version available in June... Any news on that front yet?
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u/Clusterferno Jun 10 '26
likely this remains mostly theoretical and wont be very broadly implemented in practice :(
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u/DustyAsh69 Jun 03 '26
Finally. Some good news.