"The hope of the German supervisory authorities, ..., is that Facebook and Twitter will give in and make their service more privacy-friendly as soon as it becomes clear that they are not being used by authorities and companies tolerate."

1. Nodoby knowed / cared
2. Nobody wants general conflicts with the United States

Since Trump is bombing international trade this could fundamentaly change in a very short time. That public authorities do the first step is here a strong sign and will effect at the end all users. Look e.g. to Sailfish - they concentrate on public authorities as examples - that will (slowly) effects all others. The EU does now the first steps.

I could now tell a similar story with IOS and climate change.

And I also bought beginning 2015 this BQ E5 - and after 2 years there where a hole - but now everything is very fine. Tell me what is not working ultrafine (if u talk about WA u should read my lines before again ?)

If I think about how masses of people could be teached which plattforms they should use to avoid all these negative developements

People don't care about all these negative developments. What people care about is a smooth running and easy to use system, with all possibilities.
That's why UBports is not that famous, because of missing apps for their daily routine. Most people don't like to make extra effort if everything is that easy with Android.
Never mind how stable and safe UBports is, it will never be for the people, because they can't use the software they already know, to have an easy life.

I changed using 100% only Ubuntu Touch, when it first came out with the BQ E4.5. But after about 2 years, I changed back to Android, because it makes life so much easier.
But unfortunately, I have to pay for the easy life with my datas.

As I come out of the climate movement (energy - not IT) - and UT is from my perspective a part of it - I know very well and since a long time what problems results when companies have the possibility of influencing masses of people. And this effects not only wired right orientated ones!

If I think about how masses of people could be teached which plattforms they should use to avoid all these negative developements - so this initiative above is one of the best things I ever read.

@WLBI Who is not using these plattforms? Is there any country?

When public authorities - as it is daily practice all over the world - use these plattform -> it is like a seal of quality. Stopp using them is the first step that the majority of people will get these information (and not only as a rumor)

The German "gi" (Gesellschaft für Informatik, in English: Society of Informatics) in May 2019 closed its FB presentation. See the official statement here (in German) https://gi.de/meldung/gi-zentrale-verlaesst-facebook

And as you ask; I do not use FG and Twitter for the known reasons: spying and selling the data collected. And I do not use Alexa or Siri for the same reasons. And I do not have any "smart home devices" with micro turned on all time and spying for all audio in my house.

When public authorities - as it is daily practice all over the world - use these plattform -> it is like a seal of quality. Stopp using them is the first step that the majority of people will get these information (and not only as a rumor)

Actually that's strict against the law.

German newspapers are full of it - but I cannot find any english article about it.

https://www.golem.de/news/bye-bye-twitter-und-facebook-social-media-auftritte-kommen-auf-den-pruefstand-2001-145801.html

That's me on Mastodon: https://social.tchncs.de/@Ingo_FP_Angel
And here is the UBports account: https://framapiaf.org/@ubports

https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

Has somebody tried it already?