Liška

In fact, there is no American-style majority voting system in Germany - as long as the elected party receives more than 5% of the vote in the federal election, it is represented in our parliament! …Nonetheless, Germany is struggling with exactly the same problem of right-wing / neo-fascist populism as basically every nation in the Western world at the moment…

For more reading on Germany’s political power / party dynamics, please have a look here!

…Than let’s just flood the comment section with information and links to the Fediverse and esp. Lemmy?

Actually, there is at least one other company specializing in sustainable / repairable electronics - besides Fairphone - I’m aware of.

Check out Shiftphone: Their new Shiftphone 8 (still under development / construction) will be a pretty solid deal with a reasonable price-performance ratio - already pre ordered mine and very excited for final delivery in March.

… Their previous models as well as spare parts, etc. are also still available through their shop.

Wonderful idea - full support on my part 👍🏻

… The Fediverse can only acquire steady growth if engagement in some of the bigger communities picks up and new users are noticing that there is constantly something going on around here - I’m sceptic that with the natural spread of thematically related smaller communities over the Fediverse, we can make that happen without pushing some incentives for community centralization…

I’m totally with you, that’s a really important functionality to ease people’s GDPR concerns!