Not All Platforms Are The Problem.
The EU is planning restrictions on minors' social media access. The harm comes from profiling-based algorithmic amplification - not from non-profiling, decentralised networks like Mastodon.
Target the Harm, Not the Fediverse.
Fediverse Exemption - scope the EU's planned restrictions on minors' social media access around the actual source of harm (profiling-based algorithmic amplification), exempting non-profiling, decentralised networks like Mastodon.
The Fediverse is a democratic public sphere: open, federated and interoperable by default, organised around federation and subsidiarity, not centralisation.
What We're Fighting For.
A Fediverse exemption
Exempt non-profiling, decentralised networks like Mastodon from the EU's planned restrictions on minors' social media access.
Restrictions scoped on the real source of harm
Profiling-based algorithmic amplification - the engagement machine of centralised platforms - is what the rules should target.
Before the Rules Are Written.
EU restrictions on minors' social media access in preparation
Eumans is pushing to scope them around profiling-based amplification - before the architecture sets.
Put to Europe's Institutions.
We've put this demand to the European Commission and the European Parliament.
Co-sign the open letter.
Add your name to the citizens, institutions and organisations asking for rules that target profiling, not the open, decentralised web.
