Hmm, I am most surprised by Austria. Especially since afaik wages in Austria tend to be a bit lower than in Germany for example.

If your definition of “good” means like a douchebag, sure.

As others have said already, email is one of the few things I would avoid self-hosting.

You could check with your domain / DNS host if they also offer email. OVH for example gives a free 5GB email for every domain. Otherwise there are of course email providers that let you use your own domain.

MultiBanco / MBway works great in Portugal 🇵🇹

Well, it is still open for discussion. A worker coop seems closer to what we are currently doing, but if we change more towards providing services to users, that would be another option. Anyway, this isn’t something that will happen soon and things are moving very slowly.

You are funny. That article links directly to what media typically refers to, i.e. “mass media”.

Ask any typical person around you what they understand if you talk about “the media”, and they will confirm that this indeed refers to what I am talking about.

The “social” qualifier is a direct reference to how normal media is a one way street and how publishing is only open to a selected few and that is what sets “social media” apart from it.

Garage has deduplication of all files, yes. Obviously if you host something on server not under your control you have to have a certain trust in them. Generally speaking Garage seems to be a good replacement for Minio, but I don’t have any direct tips for migrating.

There was also a project for Mastodon to sit between it and any S3 storage that would allow sharing and deduplicating files between instances, but I can’t find it right now and forgot the name. But it seemed stuck in a rewrite and not actively developed outside of that.

You didn’t understand my comment it seems.

You can’t just stop trading in US dollars, at best you can very slowly look for other suppliers for vital commodities that you currently have to buy in US dollars. That is a decade long process and will not do anything to deter the US from doing what it wants right now.

Selling off bonds on the other hand has a direct effect on the finances of the US government which is constantly issuing new bonds to finance its deficit. This effect is somewhat limited by the fact that they can also do quantitative easing (“printing money”), but that usually has a direct effect on the value of the dollar and is much more likely to make others to reconsider their trade in US Dollars than a few European states slowly diversifying their supply chain over the course of a decade or so.

No, that is not what “media” means. That might be what the original word in Latin meant, but in English it is used to refer to things like newspapers, TV channels and so on, and “social media” is a direct reference to that.

A social network is social media that allows to form groups or communities. Two people communicating is not a network, the whole point of a network is interconnection between members of a group.

Indeed, and that is why I don’t really agree to classify WhatsApp as a social network, but it has chat groups, so it is closer to a social network than social media.

Selling old bonds destroys the market for new bonds, which forces the US to do quantitative easing, which does far more damage to the US Dollar than a few countries trying to avoid trading in US Dollar.

The sale of bonds is a good lever, and even if it doesn’t work it is good to get rid of these likely soon to be toxic assets now while there is still a chance of getting something for it.

And in general, how do you propose to stop using Dollar? It is either US products you want to buy or oil/gas that is bought in US Dollar. And the latter will not switch anytime soon because of a long list of reasons among which is the threat of US invasion for the sellers of oil/gas.

Its is commonly done with S3 compatible storage, and projects like Garage allow to do so in a distributed way.

Neither Bittorrent or IPFS seem particularly well suited for this.

It has the same effect as it will force the US to further devalue their currency making it less attractive to do trade in US Dollar.

Wat? Sorry, but your definition is even further from anything that could be called a consensus. You could maybe argue that WhatsApp is a social network, but it definitly isn’t social media and it is completly outlandish to claim so. Where do you even get the “media” part in it? You know, compound words are still made up of individual words that have a meaning by themself. Kinda funny that you accuse me of “making up definitions” 🙄

But sure there are some blurry edges between them. For example, Instagram is primarily used for social media, but the direct messages are more used like a social network.

Indeed, I suspect the sales funnel is like this: one person picks it up for free on EGS and then annoys their friends to get it as well for multiplayer, but those friends rather buy it on Steam than to bother with installing another (bad) store app. At least I had that happen to me a few times.

You are in fact posting this on a server ( slrpnk.net ) that is run by a coop like group ( f-hub.org ) and we hope to eventually become an official worker’s coop in the future.

Maybe Nextcloud hosted by Hetzner? https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

I was about to comment on the double standard, but then I realized I misread your instance as “lemmy.ml” 😅

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/horizontal_scaling.html

I don’t find this argument very complelling. If there are really few buyers than even a mild sell off would make the value of US treasuries temporarily tank and in turn make it very difficult of the US to issue new ones, which they depend on to finance their huge deficit.

I don’t know… would you feel the same if someone made a “short-cut” with the text instead of the images? That seems a bit of a double standard that graphical artists probably find offensive.