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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 04:53:02 JST Aral Balkan

   RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116766280585278666

   The European Commission is literally peddling a venture-capital funded startup on a noncommercial federated network that was created in the EU right now.

   Fuck right off with your bullshit.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 16:13:37 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • BenjaminK
     • Elena Rossini 🌈

     @BenjaminKlein People are literally still happily chatting away in Musk’s Nazi Bar.

     A quick list:

     ⁃ Journalists who want to follow the European Commissioners who are de facto peddling and legitimising it right now.
     ⁃ Folks who want to follow the journalists.
     ⁃ Friends of the folks who want to follow the journalists who want to follow their friends.
     ⁃ …

     All they need is the benefit of the doubt and this isn’t even that: this is full-chested endorsement by the European Commission.

     The way you kill this is to make it socially unacceptable as loudly as possible and kill their growth curve. If they scale and gain network effects, it’ll be too late.

     CC @_elena

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     BenjaminK (benjaminklein@mastodon.nu)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 16:13:38 JST BenjaminK

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     @aral I wouldn't worry about this, who the hell is going to sign up for this?