Only by opening an investigation by the Commission will the way be opened for German courts to order the shutdown of X in Europe if these crimes continue.

@alexandrageese
I really can understand folks, who would say:
„What‘s that picture about? It seems this Social Media platform is broken. I stay at <whatever corporate social media>“
Now, I have learned that it has to do with federating server (or in this case…?) but the „usability“ still annoys me sometimes…

Only by opening an investigation by the Commission will the way be opened for German courts to order the shutdown of X in Europe if these crimes continue.

I am calling for this, along with 50 other MPs, in a letter to Ursula von der Leyen.

Also: a European initiative on X is urgently needed.
Only then will many users switch.

The alternatives Eurosky and Mastodon are a good start, but more support from the European Commission is needed here.

@janosch It depends on your settings. I have "Medien immer ausblenden" as default, to save mobile bandwidth. (Mostly when scrolling I don't even click on the photo.) I'm not sure that is the default setting for everyone in the beginning.

@OfFMuenchen
That‘s not the issue here, as in all other posts above and below, the pictures are displayed.
I think, the „posting server“ and „my server“ are not yet federated. (If I would follow this user, at least the posts from this user will be fetched from my server to display me the full post)

Only by opening an investigation by the Commission will the way be opened for German courts to order the shutdown of X in Europe if these crimes continue.

I am calling for this, along with 50 other MPs, in a letter to Ursula von der Leyen.

Also: a European initiative on X is urgently needed.
Only then will many users switch.

The alternatives Eurosky and Mastodon are a good start, but more support from the European Commission is needed here.

Only by opening an investigation by the Commission will the way be opened for German courts to order the shutdown of X in Europe if these crimes continue.

I am calling for this, along with 50 other MPs, in a letter to Ursula von der Leyen.

Also: a European initiative on X is urgently needed.
Only then will many users switch.

The alternatives Eurosky and Mastodon are a good start, but more support from the European Commission is needed here.

@alexandrageese Danke für Dein anhaltendes Engagement in der Sache. Ein Einwurf: Ich halte das Fediverse und „Eurosky“ nicht für gleichwertig im Bezug auf digitale Souveränität und demokratische Kontrolle. Bluesky ist nicht wirklich dezentral, zu viel Kontrolle verbleibt zentral und die Kosten für (teilweise) unabhängige Instanzen sind sehr hoch. Besser echte Unterstützung für das Fediverse, z.B. Finanzierung von besseren Onboarding-Prozessen etc.

Only by opening an investigation by the Commission will the way be opened for German courts to order the shutdown of X in Europe if these crimes continue.

I am calling for this, along with 50 other MPs, in a letter to Ursula von der Leyen.

Also: a European initiative on X is urgently needed.
Only then will many users switch.

The alternatives Eurosky and Mastodon are a good start, but more support from the European Commission is needed here.

@alexandrageese We already have a European Alternative called Fediverse! It's much more than Mastodon, this decentralized universe has places with potential for alternatives to FB (Friendica), Instagram (Pixelfed), Youtube (Peertube) and more. Perhaps von der Leyen doesn't know that @EUCommission is already here!

Still much support and work needed, but organic grow is better than exploding numbers.

Only by opening an investigation by the Commission will the way be opened for German courts to order the shutdown of X in Europe if these crimes continue.

I am calling for this, along with 50 other MPs, in a letter to Ursula von der Leyen.

Also: a European initiative on X is urgently needed.
Only then will many users switch.

The alternatives Eurosky and Mastodon are a good start, but more support from the European Commission is needed here.

@alexandrageese
Why not posting some Grok-generated nude pictures of Ursula von der Leyen on X?
This may speed things up dramatically.