Some redundancy is useful because some moderators suck. So it’s good to have some moderation diversity. But 15 forums in the decentralised non-Cloudflare part of the fedi is a bit too much redundancy.

I was thinking about how there is not a single community specifically for the “public money → public code” movement that Italy initiated. The FSFE has a PMPC campaign. Not even the centralised big tech portion of the fedi (LW, sh.itjust.works, programming.dev, etc) has a community for that. And I think the PMPC principle has not spread outside of Europe.

OTOH, PMPC may be slightly too narrow to get much posting action. It’s disturbing that European govs push closed-source proprietary phone apps with trackers, but because they merely promote an existing program, it escapes PMPC applicability. PMPC only applies when the gov directly writes code. They can buy MS Windows licenses all they want.

So it might be useful to have a community that’s broadly focused on public (gov) divestment from non-free software. Though that would not be so specific to Europe.

*@europe.pub communities should be Europe focused. There are way too many general all-purpose instances in the fedi and precious few that have a constitution (in effect), whereby the instance is subject matter focused in some way.