lemm.ee seems like a better choice indeed. But, you do you.

@EvilCartyen wow, does this thing actually exist? Lol

It would actually be kinda cool to have something like a feddit.eu server where communities from all across Europe/the EU can reside. But I am not against a move to .org either, except for the fact that they label themselves an English-German speaking community. I am not German. 😁

@Protoman64 Kbin has a separate interface for microblogging and groups, that’s why it’s not that obvious. For Lemmy, well, there’s no type of blogging to begin with.

Friendica really shines in this regard, as it has the ability to interact with both groups and regular people in the same feed, while the posts are also clearly marked as such. 😁

@testing777

Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition Philippines soldiers.

No worries! Also from Friendica

@0x815 well, if only there was a green deal or something forcing people to buy EVs to consume the extra energy… Oh, wait.

@craftyindividual on Wikipedia the name seems written normally, with just a C 😁

@craftyindividual I get why you’re using the tz as that’s how he was signing. But why are you calling him Nikolae instead of Nicolae with a normal C?

There is none, indeed, but the mentalities change hard. And we are also struggling with issues that you have already dealt with long ago, such as corruption or trains that go slower than snails.

@waffle În sfârșit. Chiar mă bucur că a ieșit Nicușor din nou la alegeri. Sper să reușească să își pună în aplicare cât mai multe dintre proiectele pe care și le-a propus.

@LaFinlandia from behind it kinda looks like a coffin with a boat engine, which is kinda fitting for its purpose.

For political issues, you should petition governments directly on issues.

Not sure if this is a great alternative. This is a thing that is totally dependent from country to country. In my country, there is no such platform that I’m aware of (on the local or national level at least. Ok, I may petition the EU, but they may just have no responsibility into my matters).

Many institutions do have email addresses though, and if, for example, you have a website, you can write an email template and point to an institution where people could send that email. Even that I don’t know how feasible it could be, but it could be more doable in more parts of the world, I think.

Otherwise, for Romania there is declic.ro, a platform owned by an NGO who relies solely on donations to run it, and also runs its own campaigns.

@Enkrod I see where you are going, but Eastern Europe generally has a lot to go in order to get inclusion right. Like, right now, one of the two larger far right parties in here (yes, we have two and we sent them both to Brussels) are heavily promoting an initiative to add into constitution the fact that a family can only be composed of a man and a woman, as well as the right to pay with cash (yes, I know how crazy that sounds, it doesn’t matter what happens in reality). And we’re already in both the EU and NATO.

@Burstar

@anzo This is the only possible/feasible way I could take an international train. Never did so far, because I would have to spare a couple of days for the train route, and it is also a bit pricey for me to travel abroad. I think I would start off with an internal route, from my corner of this country to a different one, just so I can get accustomed to sleeping in a night train.

@Servais I’d love to do this once, but this is not practical at all where I live in order to do it more often, because I live in one of the countries marked with a shade of red on this map (in S-E Europe). And that is not taking into account various incidents that can occur with the locomotive and/or other rolling stock.

Train travels inside the country are indeed doable, and many people take them, but the speed is so low that for longer distances it is rather more feasible to travel by plane in a couple of hours than take one full day for each trip.

@hsr I voted as well. Kinda sad that my favorite party didn’t make it to the parliament, but it seems the vote was stolen. People will go out and protest on this, and ask for the votes to be counted again.

@Barbarian Instructions unclear. Your vote was stolen and not just AUR but SOS as well is in the EU Parliament.

Muie PSD forever and ever!

@hsr

@Mr_Mofu they are kinda nice, but, my god! Whenever people complain about our trams I show them this. I remember there was a photo with the driver seat, which was nothing more than a kitchen stool.

Also, the trams in Cairo look god damn awful. Old GT8 Duewag trams that look like they’ve been through war or something and passenger doors that no longer shut.

As a commuter, I think it would be a terrible experience to ride them.

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