environmental economist
Now an article in english: https://www.tellerreport.com/tech/2020-01-02---social-media--data-protection-says-goodbye-to-twitter-.rkXF39YokL.html
"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."
@WLBI Maybe you are not right. 9 of 10 android apps send everything what u do on the phone to everybody who is paying for - without informing the user. There are only two reasons why andoid phones are until now not COMPLETLY FORBIDDEN in Europe:
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 ?) 
@guru I think ALL people here who are using & developing UT are doing it more or less similar to that what you write. But I am afraid there are not a lot groups like us who are aware of what that really means.
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)
@CiberSheep I don't know what I yesterday did different - but today it works without problems. Great, thx
I can remember that a lot of IT people were against this development regarding EuGH - even on ut a letter was published. Now we have the first time such a development - which at the end is relevant for all countries inside the EU - if Facebook and Co will not change (something). Great!
German newspapers are full of it - but I cannot find any english article about it.
I have never heard 'mastodon' before - an open source plattform - with a list of mostly unknown supporting companies:
https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors
Has somebody tried it already?
Stefan Brink: "If they do not stopp using Twitter we could dispose it" This counts for all authorities AND private companies - not for privates.
Same could happen for Fb and also WA - if they do not change the business model (a bit)
Only in german: https://app.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/stefan-brink-datenschuetzer-raet-behoerden-und-firmen-zur-abkehr-von-twitter/25381124.html
As alternatives he mentioned podcasts, newsletters and https://mastodon.social
@elastic I just connected Linphone to sipgate.de. Without problems I logged into my account.
Great, didn't know that VOIP is already running on ut! (This account is nearly 16-years old - so it'll get ut as a present ;-D)
But: I have credits on my sipgate-account - but I cannot dial normal telephone numbers - only SIP-addresses. What do I wrong? Tried with +49 or 0049 or just 0 - but it does not start dialing.