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Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience. This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.

trenvista.netFinland announces migration of its rail network to international gaugeThe Finnish government announces the migration of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to international gauge (1,435 mm) from 2032. The change aims to improve military mobility and regional ...

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Lots of discussion of open social in Europe and an understanding that scale and broad global news comes from ATProto, and that private accounts and community led initiatives can come from ActvityPub lead efforts. And EuroSky saying that their moderation work could extend to AP.

The story is unfortunately an exaggeration: rail gauge change is not happening any time soon. But the idea behind your post is entirely correct. We really have to become independent from tinpot dictators and prevent them having leverage over us.

Meanwhile, our national social insurance systems are planned to be transitioned to Salesforce. I wish Finland would take lessons from itself in the first place.

Don't want to be picky but Eurosky sounds like a military air defense program. It's such an unfortunate name.