At least it's better than [email protected]... I wanted to say that [email protected] is the best by far but then I realised that they're not federated with you guys.

Edit: There really should be a technopolitics comm somewhere. I wonder whether people would use it if they knew it existed. It would probably also require some proper moderation in these communities.

I'm not against regulation of social media such as TikTok, not because of any percieved foreign control of the narrative, but rather simply because of its harm on individuals (addiction, toxicity, dysmorphia, surveillance capitalism, to name a few things).

I think this is the wrong take. If we want Lemmy to be truly community-controlled, we need many small servers, as opposed to the current situation of one server controlling half the userbase. Also, which server is Facebook-controlled? Lemmy.world is in the minority by federating with Threads.

What does lemmy.world being the biggest have to do with any of this?

DO NOT click on the link, it contains horrible gore images without any warning

DO NOT click on the link, it contains horrible gore images without any warning

At the same time, the power of the EU is, however indirectly, based on the votes of the people, and if enough people disagree they might just change their minds a little. I guess the best thing you could do, therefore, is to spread the word.

I like to compare the EU to an overprotective parent -- on the one hand, they want to protect us from all external threats, but at the same time, they want to know all about us and control us.

If you have the time, you could write to the member of the European Parliament who is responsible (Romana Jerković). Otherwise, the best you can do is probably to spread the word and remember to vote next year.