Actually I still think meta doing activity pub would be overall a good thing and a win for all of us. Users should decide what will be the best platform for them to use, free from any content locking reasons.
Meta being able to create completely new social network overnight and still getting more users then entire Fendiverse without the need to open up anything... That feels more like a loose for me.
But this is a very unpopular opinion here.
Yes and no.
For most countries download such things isn't illegal but uploading/distributing them is. You are allowed to make a backup copy of your game but you are not allowed to share this with anyone else without permission of the copyright owner.
There are always all kind of directions and forces in all of politics not only in EU.
That's why we need to always watch the voted representants all the time. Sadly many people only see democracy as something you started to deal with two weeks before an main election...
I do not understand how this should be interconnected. Why would the chat control law make Linux illegal? And isn't this a completely different topic? OPs post was about "Cyber Resilience Act" and like zero_iq already explained Open Source software is explicitly excluded from this.
But beside this I thing the chat control law is a very bad idea that really need more focus in mainstream media.
What could that type of game look? I was instantly thinking about using the API to get live involvement from a Lemmy Thread into the game like Jabrils once did with the Twitch Interaction API https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux6pbOCFueg
But I have no Idea if this would work or where to start here 😅
Meanwhile my cat after reading this theory...
I think you misunderstood the purpose of this. This is not for citizens to join it's an instance for government officials and offices. This is very good practice to prove a account is the official account.
But honestly I have more trust in my government to not exploit on me then I have in meta/Twitter.
Oh man... UK is so f* up right now. Hope times get better for you soon.
If I understood this correct from my interpretation of the dutch server description this is an Instance for dutch government officials.
At least Germany also has such a mastodon instance too for quite a while now. So people on mastodon know that an account there is officially a government account. The BSI (German Office for cyber security) and other offices post there.
This is not an Instance for "normal people" to register on.
I think there is definitely so time traveling going on here.
Because I don't see issues there that needs to be addressed. Maybe I missed it or just don't understand it.
The first one is an article from Eugan (Gargron) why meta will not be able to push you Adds or get your personal network data even if an mastodon instance is federating with them.
The second is a (very opiniated and polarizing) how evil companies "killed" open social technologies in the past... Despite the fact that XMPP is not dead. So I really don't get what should be the problems after all.
EDIT: So many spelling errors in there... I'm sorry for that.
Yes by making it like a one-click Join from their other very popular platform "Instagram" and advertising it there.
That's (most probably) why threads is currently not available in the EU. Gatekeeper practices like this would be illegal with the Digital Markets Act. But honestly it would be very easy to get around this. Just make it possible to join without an Instagram account. So I guess there are more concerns from Meta to not fullfil EU Standards than just this.
Sooo I guess EU finally did a good job here.