@Gargron In fairness, this is what the internet used to be like before big tech and advertisers took it over. Think also: RSS, XMPP, IRC, etc.

@Gargron The demand comes exclusively from those who want Mastodon to be Twitter.

Mastodon is not Twitter.

@EU_Commission How it plays out in reality: Russia sells cheap gas to another country and EU buys the same gas at a heavily marked up price from the middle man.

@EU_Commission Stringing Ukraine along, offering EU membership like a carrot on a stick to a donkey, isn't being fair to Ukrainians. Requirement to join, a stable, functioning economy but Ukraine's is decimated for generations. Same thing with NATO, you offer NATO membership to Ukraine "as soon as the war ends", then you lock Ukraine into a forever war... Spot the contradictions

@EU_Commission EU tells Gulf countries "we want to buy your product, we want you to invest heavily in infrastructure to secure our access to oil, we want you to invest billions if not trillions into it... but by the way, in less than 10 years time our plan is to completely abandon your product." -- Ask yourself, WHY would any gulf country go along with that? And then ask yourself why is there an oil and cost of living crisis? ... 🤔

@feditips Using the #opensource Stylus you can theme Mastodon any way you see fit. Ditto for every other website.
https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

@EU_Commission Reality check: You're buying Russian gas from India at a marked up price.