@mikehaynes and Germany is the only country not able to use it for data protection reason. On the other hand… do we really need another social network?

@dominikhoecht The fact that it is not available yet in the EU says a lot more about Meta than about the EU…

@maique @dominikhoecht almost forbidden. their current data sharing model is illegal in GDPR. So they can’t launch as is.

@mikehaynes I’m already seeing it that way now. I can understand the logic of why they did it the other way on day one.

@maique EU is now third-world when it comes to app releases 😉

@maique It was thaaaaaaaaaaat important to get the app. lol

@maique @jeroensangers @pcora okay, whole EU. I just read some news about it while having soap from washing my hair in the eyes, so…

@maique Nothing is better than that.

I just have such a deja vu with Bluesky. Then I also thought: You must have!!!! But in the end it was just…. oh, I don’t know.

@dominikhoecht yes. As many as possible.

@maique I’ve been on Instagram for nearly a decade, and having people I know I can chat with on DAY 1 is an immediate win.

@maique, the one thing I worked on with my Instagram was creating a list of accounts I follow who I know personally, from photo walks, meetups, and local clubs.

@maique LOL! Welcome to how we from the third-world felt for all these years 😆

@pimoore Trust me, Canada is still very much first-world, so much so that people in the U.S. talk about moving to Canada whenever things seem difficult here. It’s the winter that dampens everyone’s spirits. But I’m sure (a lot of) white people would mind if most of third-world moves to Canada.

@pratik I suddenly “remembered” that Clinton moved to Canada to avoid the draft, but I might misremember this, (or it was rep. fake news).

@odd Canada? Nope. But something about ROTC. Here’s a CNN article from the 90s.

@pratik Then I did misremember it.

@maique Haha! Everyone gets their 15 mins of fame. But we loved what you did for Goa - the architecture, the food, the chill vibe, etc.