Huh, so what other #ASEAN#gamers have mentioned, South-East Asia now have a better ping to European gaming servers than US West Coast (or any US-based gaming servers).
This is interesting. I'm going to expand my test in the future. But for now, the results are the same with or without VPN. I guess ASEAN now have a direct connection to the EU IX and uses the latest technology?
I wonder where our connection passes through to get to the EU.
Here in the Philippines, our connection goes through:
Taiwan or Hong Kong
From there it travels the Pacific Ocean to US West Coast.
From US West Coast, it travels to Central.
From Central to East Coast.
From East Coast to Europe.
If we now have a connection direct to EU IX, then it means we're no longer passing through the US?
Ooh, found this article: “12 of Asia’s most important submarine cable projects”
> Massive growth in connectivity demand in Asia has led to increased capacity requirements, and construction of submarine and subsea cables is growing to meet this demand. An estimated $2.6 billion worth of current and future submarine cable projects are planned for completion by 2025 – here are profiles of 12 of the most important.
It looks like by 2025, connection with the US West Coast is going to be far better than it already is. I guess, from a gamer perspective, we should stick to North American servers. LOL ^_^;; Maybe the EU connection is better right now because there were projects which were recently completed?? But once the other projects connecting us to US West Coast are online, our NA connection will still be better in the long run.
From 2010 to 2017, there was a thing called #AseanCitizen that we Aseans started as a grassroots movement. We were all bloggers from across, well, #ASEAN or South-East Asia.
Some of us joined together to produce one of the best multi-authored regional blogs. We talked about our cultures, write about what makes the region awesome. As well as, try to address the oftentimes silly and sometimes heated debates.
It's all gone now. Forgotten. The blogs dead or offline. We all grew up, got busy with our personal lives, and moved on separately. And the important reason? We lost interest in it as we started to see ASEAN was, is, and will never be for the grassroots.
That was the end of what was once a vibrant grassroot ASEAN Citizens effort. We did it all voluntarily. Without a single recognition from the top-down organisation that is ASEAN.
But today? ASEAN is still a top-down organisation. They kept trying to get the grassroots involved, but they are always failing. Why? Because it is a top-down organisation, as simple as that. They will never understand until they shift their mindset and approach to bottom-up.
(P.S I want to restart this grassroots movement, but I just no longer have the spark. Give me a very good reason why I should give it another chance. Or, at least, guide the new generation.)
@ubi Haha, true! It is 99% impossible to get ASEANs to use the fediverse. We can forget the fediverse, just Threads itself is being ignored even though Instagram is very popular in the region.
It's only Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Plurk, in that particular order. ^_^
The reasons for this are (at least based from experience and observation):
Family connections.
Fandoms + official accounts of their idols
Government accounts.
I am hoping that Threads can make fandoms and those official accounts to create Threads with Fediverse. Theoretically, it can be helpful in getting a huge chunk to move to the Fediverse
(Unfortunately, there is an anti-fandom vocal minority in the Fediverse, who's trying to gatekeep the network. /facepalm)
Another one that's good are government accounts with fediverse enabled.
But, until those happen, those 5 SNS platforms will remain.
As for language, except for the #Philippines and #Singapore, English is not an official language in the 8 member Nations (even though English is the official language of the organisation itself). Many can speak English, but it's more natural for them to speak in their local languages.
There are ASEANs in the fediverse network, but in the grand scheme of things… we're still few and a minority.
ASEAN leaders trust Japan more than China and even the U.S. A survey "showed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' trust level in Japan was at 58.9%, up from 54.5% last year, beating the U.S., China, India and the European Union."
Singapore is a key member of the 10-nation bloc known as #ASEAN. Its three-day summit was expected to focus on member #Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis and conflicts in the #SouthChinaSea.
Instead, #Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was grilled on the summit's sidelines about an exclusive deal his city-state struck with Swift🤦♂️ #Australia
If you're paying attention in #AsiaPacific#APAC it gets more and more closer to sparking a war, possibly the beginning of #WorldWarIII . Of course, we don't want that to happen. But mainland #China and #NorthKorea are really working in tandem in pushing everyone to a corner.
Here is their game:
Push everyone anti-China and anti-NoKor to make the first move, or to make a mistake.
This way, they can blame them and point fingers.
China is already doing just that. Changing the narrative that it was the #Philippines who first made an aggressive move and they simply reacted similarly.
The worse is, no one is calling anyone to stop escalating the "actions"/"reactions" anymore. It seems that the world powers knew the only way to resolve this is to have another global war.
Maybe I should start an irregular series of "What Hubzilla is like" posts for people in the Fediverse, Mastodon specifically, who don't know anything about it. Not for those who want to switch, but for those who assume that Hubzilla is just like whatever else they know. Like, for Mastodon users who blindly assume that Hubzilla is just like Mastodon with a different UI and then act accordingly. Thus, it'd mostly focus on how Hubzilla is different from Mastodon.
The difficult part would be to limit these posts to only 500 characters. Minus what I'll need for the hashtags, namely #Hubzilla, #FediTips and #FediverseTips to increase discoverability for those who are interested and #FediMeta, #FediverseMeta, #CWFediMeta and #CWFediverseMeta so that these posts are automatically removed or hidden behind generated content warnings by already existing filters. Because I know for a fact that many Mastodon users won't touch anything that goes even a smidge over 500 characters. And I know that there are Mastodon users for whom any and all Fediverse meta is too nerve-gratingly techy.
> Everyone else who talks about the non-Mastodon Fediverse isn't on Mastodon.
Not really. 🤪 I'm on a Mastodon-powered instance.
I used to run a #Philippines#Friendica server. (It was the second #fediverse instance for the Philippines. The first was running Friendika managed by students.)
Then I ran my own #Hubzilla (family & friends). And used to manage the community for an #ASEAN Hubzilla instance (sadly, the sponsor and admin disappeared).
Today, I'm staying away from the backend management. I no longer have the resources to dedicate to it. So, I just search for instances with sane set up (like not abusing site-level blocks because someone told them to).
"True Fediverse citizens" (for lack of a better label) do exist on Mastodon-powered platforms. There are plenty of others beside me. 😃
"On #SouthChinaSea, #Indonesia is ready to work together with all #ASEAN member states including the #Philippines to finalise the #CodeOfConduct as soon as possible," Retno said at a joint press conference with Filipino counterpart Enrique Manalo in Manila, ahead of a visit by Indonesian President #JokoWidodo. #WestPHSea
#MANILA (Reuters) -The leaders of the #Philippines and #Indonesia met in Manila on Wednesday to discuss developments in the #SouthChinaSea and efforts to build closer ties among Southeast Asian nations, among a range of issues. #TootSEA
@Norobiik So that's why the flag of Indonesia is flying along Roxas Blvd and the roads around Rizal Park since last week.
Just saw it during my run day, and completely forgotten to search what the visit will be about.
It's good that another #ASEAN country is genuinely serious regarding the South China Sea issue, not like #Malaysia (on a wait-and-see mode ever since) and #Vietnam (only an ally of the Philippines if it benefits them). And the rest are non-existent (indirectly telling everyone that their respective claims are not important).
Though, still, I commend the recent shift in policy on the nations with close ties to China. They were the primary reason why ASEAN cannot make a strong stand about this issue, they often countered any attempts. I hope they continue to side with ASEAN.
It should have been #ASEAN, but the organisation is useless when it comes to this “conflict” as each ASEAN member have different levels of agreement with #China. However, a Philippines-Korea-Japan alliance is possible as these three nations are the ones affected by the unchecked bullying of China.
How about #Vietnam? They are unpredictable. If it benefits them, they support the Philippines; but if China is not involved, they treat the Philippines as a territorial enemy.
Personally, the #Philippines, #Japan, and South #Korea should form an alliance. My country, the Philippines, should officially pursue this instead of relying on #ASEAN (that can never do anything anyway). The #PJK alliance will then become the official body that will handle anything related to the West (like the #US and #EU) and China.
Let's admit it, many issues in Asia-Pacific were about how to handle the West, pre- and post-colonial era.
(Obviously, the West will never approve this alliance; and China will prefer to keep the current status quo.)
Bonus: The Philippines can also act as a bridge to ASEAN, and use the PJK alliance as an example of what ASEAN could be if the other ASEAN members would only stop bowing to China.
Taiwanese tech start-ups pile into Asean amid risks in China
> Technology start-ups in Taiwan, home to some of the world’s most dominant chipmakers, are sharpening their focus on #ASEAN as the prospects of stability for doing business in #China wane.
> Young tech companies hoping to carve out a plan for regional growth are picking the 10-member Association of South-East Asian Nations...
Euromonitor: With #Millennials accounting for the largest working age group in Southeast Asia at 39% of the total working population, the region becomes a powerful force for consumption as the region accounts for 4.7% of the world’s gross domestic product. Two in three people consist of the region’s working age population, with 63M middle-class households, according to the study’s survey. #consumption#marketing#advertising#Asean
"#Manila has been inviting journalists when it runs resupply missions to a naval outpost in the South #China Sea, resulting in regular media reports of standoffs with the Chinese ships. Those reports have included footage of swarming by Chinese ships, the use of water cannon against #Philippines ships and even a minor collision at sea. Ray Powell, a maritime analyst... has dubbed the tactic 'assertive transparency'"
"Deliberately grounded on a tiny reef in the #SouthChinaSea, part of an island chain claimed by the two Asian countries, the #BRPSierraMadre is now the unlikely base for a detachment of Filipino marines who stand guard over the atoll, scanning the turquoise waters for Chinese ships." #AyunginShoal#SecondThomasShoal#Philippines
#MANILA, #Philippines – Foreign ministers of Southeast Asia’s regional bloc Association of Southeast Asian Nations (#ASEAN) on Saturday, December 30, expressed their concern over growing tensions in the #SouthChinaSea which they said could threaten regional peace and urged for peaceful dialogue among parties. #SoutheastAsia#TootSEA
The two Southeast Asian countries have competing claims over some parts of the #SouthChinaSea, a conduit for $3 trillion of annual ship-borne trade that #China claims almost in its entirety. #SoutheastAsia#ASEAN#WestPHSea
Geopolitical experts and envoys have proposed a triangular cooperation among #Philippines, #Japan, and #India, for the advancement of peace and stability in the #IndoPacific region.
According to Ambassador of India to the Philippines Shambu Kumaran, the three countries should work together in the aspect of maritime domains and security. #WestPHSea