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by aaron-lebo 4011 days ago
The "official" translation on the English version of the site is:

> We are a federation of microbloggers who care about ethics and solidarity and want to quit the centralised capitalist services.

Which is a bit more political and perhaps radical.

Twitter allows private DMs. Are you sure gnusocial can do that? I'm not sure how you'd keep private data truly private over a federated network.

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Agreed, they should definitely change that. Software freedom is the real goal here, not converting people from one economic system to another.
You beat me by 3 min with the same comment.

I wonder why the German version is somewhat more professional than the majority of other versions.

What do they have solidarity with?