The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which is the regulator for vaccines and medicine in the European Union (EU), has stopped using the social media platform X. The website is owned by Elon Musk, who is an important ally of the newly elected United States president Donald Trump. The EMA, whose headquarters are based in Amsterdam, is currently the only EU organization to leave the platform.
  • rarbg@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    30 days ago

    Lmao they went to Bluesky, a centralized (don’t get pedantic with me) social media platform controlled by Americans. Genius

    • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      30 days ago

      Wikipedia says “direct messages are offered though a central service”. If that’s was/still is correct then you’re correct, it’s centralized.

      Nuance is the friend of truth - pedantic.

      • exu@feditown.comEnglish
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        29 days ago

        The whole algorithm (AppView) is centralised. While it’s technically possible to host with enough capital, a second AppView server would also double bandwidth required for every message sent on the network. This gets worse the more AppView instances you add, as every message has to be sent to every AppView server (exponential growth)

        • mac@lemm.eeEnglish
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          29 days ago

          Thats the same issue with activity pub, is it not?

          • exu@feditown.comEnglish
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            29 days ago

            No, ActivityPub only send messages to the recipients. Uninvolved servers don’t get the message at all until one of their users explicitly searches for it.
            In the worst case where every user has their own server, one message per recipient is sent. Adding another recipient on their own server means one more message being sent and so forth.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      29 days ago

      If I had a company with public presence, I would too. Companies and organization’s go to the people are.