European companies and communities already host decentralized alternatives like Mastodon, a federated network powered by the homegrown Mastodon software. These GDPR-compliant tools allow users to control data and interconnect across servers—a model echoing the EU’s federalist values. However, fragmentation, lack of user-friendly UI and underfunding limit their reach. A unified EU initiative could fund these projects while the alliance of European companies and communities could merge these projects into a public-private platform. It is in the best interest of the European Union to provide funding for European-owned social media platforms to ensure their development and European digital sovereignty.

It would be awesome if the EU started funding the Fediverse.

No surprise there. We just went through how blockchain is going to drastically help our lives in some unspecified future.

I second this. Lemmy is written in Rust where as piefed is written in Python. When it comes to running a high-performance webserver, Lemmy has the advantage.

I didn’t mean to imply they weren’t already more productive than in-office workers.

I’m saying that the effort taking away support from remote workers should instead be going toward supporting them.

We should be learning how to make remote workers more productive. Not forcing them back to the office.