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>>Clumsy+(OP)
> Vienna’s tourism board has started an account on OnlyFans – the only social network that permits depictions of nudity – in protest against platforms’ ongoing censorship of its art museums and galleries.

The only social network? How about the Fediverse? Spin up their own PixelFed (and a Mastodon instance too), promote it widely, and donate some of their public money to these FOSS projects based on open standards, instead of just choosing a proprietary centralized platform.

>>rapnie+2b
Fediverse is a niche thing for people who care more about decentralisation for the sake of decentralisation rather than the actual social media aspect.

>>jstx1+Db
The Internet was once a niche thing for people who cared about decentralisation and interoperability. Otherwise we would be in "I can't get to HN, it's on the AT&T network" or "Only $5 more to upgrade to the Tech Websites Package!" territory today.

There's no reason social media shouldn't be more decentralized and federated. European institutes can and should consider open source, federated alternatives unless they want to be forced to play by the rules of the big social media providers.