As criticism of Instagram, TikTok and X grows in the EU, developers have been working on European social media apps. But can they compete? DW answers the key questions.
Social media lives from its userbase. The article continues to mention one or more apps per country. This divides the userbase and makes the apps pointless. Meanwhile european politicians continue to post on X.
Reminds me of the ole joke when 3 left wingers meet they form 4 new splinter parties.
Meanwhile european politicians continue to post on X.
The same politicians also like to constantly appease US fascists while trying to normalise genocides in the Middle East and copying moves from the exact same playbook of ‘how to destroy democracy with right-wing populism and culture war’.
So maybe, just maybe, it’s not the lack of alternatives (or even the need to have one) but their intentions that make them flock to and stay on that platform.
Social media lives from its userbase. The article continues to mention one or more apps per country. This divides the userbase and makes the apps pointless. Meanwhile european politicians continue to post on X.
Reminds me of the ole joke when 3 left wingers meet they form 4 new splinter parties.
There is nothing ‘pointless’ about decentralization.
The same politicians also like to constantly appease US fascists while trying to normalise genocides in the Middle East and copying moves from the exact same playbook of ‘how to destroy democracy with right-wing populism and culture war’.
So maybe, just maybe, it’s not the lack of alternatives (or even the need to have one) but their intentions that make them flock to and stay on that platform.