That name isn't that great ...

WhatsApp is not a great name either, but catchy and somewhat simple.

BirdyPo.. I mean BirdyChat sounds like when doves cry. But not as catchy.

Also, I am all in favour of Europeans becoming less dependent on the USA (yet-another-ICE-killing incident today, with video footage contradicting the claims made by the current government - again), but there is kind of ... a weak decision-making process here. Lobbyists sell to Europeans that Amazon data servers in Europe, now comply with european laws. Well, those are still external companies that will hand over data from europeans, so that is not a solution. Why do some media try to insinuate otherwise? Who owns and controls all these media?

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u8080 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>still external companies that will hand over data from europeans

The idea here is that EU three letter agencies also have access to your data

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aucisson_masque 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I’d rather have my data accessed by eu agencies than USA ones. Seeing how this country is turning more and more into a fascist oligarchy.

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umanwizard 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Right-wing populist parties are very popular in Europe, including in France and Germany, the two most important EU countries. There is a significant possibility that people with Trump-like ideologies will come to power there before too long.

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potatototoo99 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Trump is so incompetent he has killed any chance for far right politicians to be elected for the next decades. And even them hate him now due to Greenland.

	▲	umanwizard 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I really don't think the first part of that is true. All significant recent polls in Germany have AfD at around 25% of vote intentions, which would probably give them the biggest fraction in the Bundestag, or second behind the CDU/CSU (but very close).

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lxgr 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Who owns and controls all these media?

Never attribute to a cabal what can be adequately described by Gell-Mann-Amnesia.

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amelius 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Birdy has this Twittery sound to it.