Software developer from Sweden. I enjoy discussing tech, science, astronomy, photography and art. I like to go hiking to unwind! I’m also semi-active on Mastodon at @jonor@social.lol.

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • The EU itself also has a Mastodon instance with the funny, overly clear name of https://social.network.europa.eu/

    But only the institutions of EU, not for EU residents.

    I like this idea because it becomes very easy to verify authenticity especially now that verification badges on X is just subscription badges without verification. You simply set up a subdomain of the form social.country.tld (much like the German parliament did) and you’ll know forename.surname@social.country.tld is an authentic representative for a political party or whatever. No money involved other than running the instance, which will be a tiny cost for something as niche as one offering a voice for the parliament alone.

    So I hope this takes off even more around the world. It is certainly a more democratic way to do social than paying some dude in America that runs his personal garden to have badges.



  • This is what I’ve heard too. It’s really no big deal. Concerned local fishermen are probably just not introduced to the physics of this. In general, humans tend to worry a bit more about radioactivity than necessary. This in particular will be diluted into basically nothing. The only real problem is the PR work that lies ahead for them. In practice, their people should probably be more concerned about constantly dying early from pollution and protest more about that.