Related press release: https://edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-r...

PeerTube too.

https://tube.network.europa.eu/

Oh that’s neat. I’ll investigate how to help seed that (for lack of better word)

Main reason I haven’t done so yet is copyright concerns but this content is presumably safe in that regard

The German government has an instance too: https://social.bund.de/about

(And the state of Baden-Württemberg has its own instance for some reason: https://xn--baw-joa.social/about)

And they drop cookies without asking for permissions. EU, heh ?

if the cookies serve a technical purpose (and not a PII-tracking purpose), they don't have to ask.

Any mastodon client which is not based on those grostesquely and absurdely complex and massive google(blink/geeko) and apple based browsers?

On Linux / GNOME, the Tootle app is quite nice: https://github.com/bleakgrey/tootle. It’s available on Flathub.

Looks like it could use some more contributions with commit access, but it works well as it is!

Edit: But to be fair to the backlog of pull requests, the developer is not located in the most pleasant of countries at the moment, so be patient with them :)

I know that you asked for suggestions on a *mastodon* client specifically...but in case you did not know...technically you can interact with fediverse instances and networks - including, yes, mastodon instances - with other ActivityPub clients too...Just sayin'...in which case feel free to filter for any of a bunch of them here: https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/

No simple C client??

Brutaldon perhaps might interest you? https://brutaldon.org/about

For mobile or desktop? On mobile, Mastodon recently released their official client, and as far as I know it's not web-based.

The problem with the mastodon client made by mastodon is that it is missing a massive amount of features including the federated timeline

Wow, this is big!!!