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Self hosting, Hetzner, INWX, mailbox/posteo/infomaniak/proton and Ubuntu fix pretty much most scenarios.

I really don’t think it’s any difficult for individual, tech savvy users

Based in Liechtenstein, no idea, available in Liechtenstein, Hetzner, of course

Last time I looked at it I tried to find its declared HQ, Zugerstrasse, 6340 Baar, Switzerland, and found nothing, so it probably is a mail box or a coworking space.

There is no way I trust my data with a company that has no visible HQ. Happy to be shown where it is if anyone knows, otherwise hard pass.

You would be better off self hosting anyway.

The “supported banks” figure is useless. The largest bank in continental Europe by market cap is Santander. And the two largest banks by number of customers are Spanish. None of them use Wero, but Bizum.

It’s my understanding they’re planning on a collaboration, but still.

It doesn’t make any sense for a public figure to speak in a place that’s empty. Social networks grow from the ground up, not the other way around. If the population doesn’t like X they should stop using it, and their leaders would move to the platform where they are.

The other way around is self evidently absurd, nobody will change platforms on the basis that a prime minister is publishing some messages there and no politician will spend time talking to nobody when everybody is in a different place.

Demonstrably wrong:

https://www.ft.com/content/aa433fd3-7844-4254-85fe-6970be6532a9

They won’t be sending ids to social media companies.

Gating the internet with government checked ids based on open source platforms is the only way to tackle bot farms, malign foreign actors and psyops. If you live in a free country and want an honest public square that’s what you want. You want to know who is a real single individual and a citizen of your country or the EU and who is not.

People who demonstrate in France Spain and so on don’t hide their faces and destroy their ids, there is no need, what’s your argument here? Why is the internet any different? Don’t fool yourself: the internet is the greatest psyop and normalizing anonymity in free countries only helps their enemies.

ID verification is done by the government, using encrypted personal digital certificates or the physical id card chip issued by the government and its own online platform and app, open source and linux compatible, as with everything else in Spain.

Did you think the plan was sending pictures of one’s id to Facebook? Lmao

France and Spain are the only European countries where the intention to remove foreign platforms is not only real but existed before the current hype.

However, countries traditionally worried about sovereignty and autonomy use to have worse economies because it has never been profitable in pure dollar terms and is less efficient. That’s why France has the great European strategic vision but not the money, and Germany, Denmark et al have the money but the shortsightedness of a merchant, proud of being vassals.