[znpy]

> Requiring government actors to use 'Euro Mastadon' or whatever - it means school, students, parents come abard and then you have 'critical mass'.

Not really.

Reality is that people (eg: students) will have the "euro mastodon" (or whatever) AND the other social media accounts, and will drop the "euro mastodon" when not legally enforced anymore (eg: when finishing school).

> Requiring 'open doc format'

If you're talking about OpenDocument, it's not european really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument - It was originally built by Sun Microsystems, a very american company (RIP).

[bluegatty]

You're misunderstanding the concept of critical mass as it relates.

People wanted to move to BlueSky, but they couldn't move away from the others because the critical mass did not shift.

I governing bodies require certain use, then the critical mass for those platforms then exist.

People don't need to go to the other platforms.

There's zero reason for Europeans to use Facebook.

Now Twitter is another story - but as we see with Russia, where they have 'engineered' the critical mass on Telegram, and where Twitter is 'available' - it works. Telegram is #1, and Twitter is #2.

The same would happen in Europe.

There are standards for various things, it doesn't matter where they originate from that much, any number of them can be adopted, the key is there has to be hard requirements for parties to support them.

If 'all government procurement' required participants t adhere to those standards, it'd open up for others to participate.

[znpy]

I think you’re misunderstanding user experience.

I was on online social networks before Facebook, one of them (kly.it) was very local (national) and very similar to facebook.

And yet, facebook was better, it took off and other european platforms like kly.it or netlog died miserably.