Peaceful general strikes would be a better first option imho
Contact your representative. And here's F-droid's article about it (including how to find your representative at the end of the article): https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
The UK moves are very worrying. We're trying to help people to move away from big tech at our site https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/
We recommend fediverse protocols wherever possible - so I'm interested in the comments here about how that is affected
RSS. And very happy that it is!
If there was a Bandcamp for film and TV, then I would buy stuff there. DRM free.
But until then...
Totally. And that "legitimate interest" nonsense takes ages to click through ๐คฆ
Orgs have to wean themselves off big tech dollars. Painful, but has to happen. They'll have to restructure and refocus. Maybe cut out the AI stuff and focus on core functionality?
lol I thought this was a guerrilla IT warfare post where you snuck in and did it, but you actually did it with permission.... ๐
I'm reading this on a Microsoft Surface that I flashed with Linux Mint. Quite satisfying!
Message to Microsoft:๐
Urgh this is so backwards.
Governments need to fund more FOSS not less!
Hopefully the EU can increase its support to compensate.
Ooooooooh I see! right.... yes that works.
I wasn't familiar with the idea of the instance 'fetching' a post. Thank you!
This is excellent! Good work!