> have to have a dedicated page on their website where it says how many user numbers they have in the EU You shouldn't be collecting that information.

When does the EU end, oh when?

Can't wait for the EU to find about Nostr and zaps.

I thought Europeans like EU? Is this incorrect?

I know a lot that do, yes. But the thing is, most people have no idea of what it is and how it affects them. Especially in Portugal, Spain, southern Europe in general, people think the EU is a good thing because "we would be poor without the EU". Basically it's welfare or slave mentality. The fiat masters in center Europe have all the answers. So yeah, they like it in that way. But it's clearly not an healthy relationship.

Even on nostr I’ve seen people praising EU. Which is odd to me.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. That's the EU. There are some things that are good. Mostly the technological/market standardizations that allow more efficiency. Stuff like a single plug, voltage for all EU, etc. But these could all be achieved without the extra very heavy government that is the EU. The EU is a not good thing for anyone. And this is coming from a Portuguese, Portugal is one of the countries that has received the most amount of money from EU. This money only served to centralized the inequality and unproductivity. It's a complete mess. There are no free lunches nor shortcuts in an economy. Being poor is the natural state of humanity. There's no problem in being poor. The EU is a disease, like fiat is a disease. But hey, this is just my opinion :)

Not sure if you are sarcastic.. Anyway, European here and I hate it. Burocrats making rules and taking actions like there's no difference in cultures and history between all those states. Sovereignty took off from citizens and even more centralised power. Stupid examples: - EU wanted to ban wood ovens for Pizzerias because unhealthy. Lol

I wasn’t. There was a full exchange some time back when people were telling me how EU was great.

I honestly hate it.. at least what it became. Ofc the incentives are rotten. The purpose of EU was avoiding another big war in Europe and creating a coalition where everyone wws independent.. it ended with shadow powers and corporations taking it over and creating a state of the States that dictate politics on each country exploiting their financial problems.. like Greece years ago, Italy then. "You want EU funds? Well than cut this this and that, create incentives for this here and there.. impose lockdown, create digital ID, ban Bitcoin usage, say yes too all we order you to do without asking questions." Just another example.. it goes much deeper than that.

Run by morons who think they are superior

It depends who you ask. My guess is it's similar to red/blue in the US. Left leaning city dwellers and corporate people often like the EU, regulations and all the socialist policies that come with it. They believe the agenda and think it's all a good thing. Maybe not perfect here or there, but better than the alternatives. Small to medium business owners, freelancers, villagers... often hate what the EU has become. Some of them saw it earlier, some are realizing it rn. For them, it's a steady stream of super invasive nonsense regulation making their lives more complicated and expensive. The main problem is no one has voted for most of the things the EU does. If there was a referendum about the disastrous "green politics" where people could vote if they want to pay extra carbon taxes, I don't think it would pass. Yet in some sly roundabout way all the WEF-like stuff passes again and again and again. The resistance was futile so far, but it's growing.

I haven't looked at recent polls but afaik being actively anti EU is very niche, nothing close to 50/50. A lot of exporting businesses are very happy about the free trade opportunities. Annoying rules yes, but at least they're not wildly different in 27 countries. Farmers, despite the protests, generally like the enormous EU subsidies they're getting. As well as the benefit of tariffs that keeps cheap food from other continents out. There are a lot of "socialist policies" than people here simply like.

In other words: the vast majority of Europeans are closet Texans :-)

* are not

They regulate platforms. We must build on protocols. 🫂

incorrect

If the EU would be locking on the Nostd door, what would they do? There is no 'platform', only relay instances. Would a relay have to share this information? Threshold is 45M monthly users, so it'll be a while before Nostr is there. Let alone a single relay, I doubt with the current tech you can have a 45M user relay, let alone want that.

Might be just my bubble or Czech bubble then.

Nope, not all EU countries have the same plug or voltage. Voltage is roughly the same, but not exactly - when the UK was still a member, they still had 240V AFAIK, I don't know if there are other examples. The UK has a completely different plug, which they also had while they were members. IIRC France and the Czech Republic has another type of the Schuko plug than most other EU members.

My understanding is that continental Europe had 220V and the UK 240V. The EU plus a few others (CENELEC) made 230 the compromise. Equipment has to handle a wider range, e.g. my water kettle says 220 - 240. That makes life easier for manufacturers and shops. With the increase in solar and wind renewables volgage varies a lot anyway, e.g. in my apartment (NL) today it's between 235 and 240 despite the rain. Plugs tend to have shapes that fit most variants that you'll still find in older apartments.

And the reason for that range is that power countries didn't have to replace existing equipment over night. Presumably the new stuff would be 230V. And this all needs to be rethought as people now have computers and LED lights that could use 12V sockets and a handful of heavy duty items (induction cooking, car charger, etc) that need dedicated higher power sockets.

A high power DC standard plug would be really great, given abundance of both solar installations (which deliver DC) and battery powered devices (from torch to vacuum to lawn mower). But ofc the EU geniuses are never gonna mandate something as useful as that.

Yes, but it only shows that Bluesky is not decentralized