European Commission
Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.
We are working on a solution to ensure our continued presence on your feeds, taking full advantage of Mastodon's identity portability.
And we are even growing the team behind our Mastodon presence, increasing efforts to engage with your comments on our posts.
We are fully committed to being a real part of the conversation in the fediverse.
Interested in our next steps? Follow us as we take on this new chapter.
Darnell Clayton :verified:
@EU_Commission It seems as if you are migrating from #Mastodon towards another platform.
Which #Fediverse option are you considering‽ #WordPress with the #ActivityPub plugin enabled‽
Depending on the host, that would be a less expensive option.
Joe Ortiz
@voltar13 @EU_Commission I feel that's what they'll be doing.
Hope I'm wrong.
voltar13
@EU_Commission
Please don't tell me this is a prelude for a total move to threads...
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@andresmh EU instances are being shut down on the 18th of May apparently:
https://mstdn.social/@EDPS@social.network.europa.eu/112336515017671681
Andrés Monroy-Hernández
@rysiek what are the concerns?
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@EU_Commission thank you for directly responding to the community's concerns.
nexus II
@croydon
They can't seem to find anyone willing to maintain a server.
Flo
@vasto @croydon they can't seem to find anyone willing to pay for maintaining a single server. Priorities.
Cr0ydon
@EU_Commission You don't seem to have posted the problem before, so what is it that requires a solution?
Cr0ydon
@desperadoduck @vasto How many Mastodon servers can we finance if we stop the EU Parliament from moving between Strasbourg and Brussels?
Sorry, could absolutely not resist 😂
Roland Alton
@EU_Commission - I helped to set up displayeurope.social (Mastodon) and displayeurope.video (PeerTube) showcasing European topics in 15 languages (translated at least on the portal page displayeurope.eu). Do not hesitate to get back to @fairkom (or me) if you require professional support for #fediverse #hosting of just for migrating some accounts or video channels.
Bart Knubben
@EU_Commission
Good to read that you are committed! I just hope you don't let the current EU Mastodon instance disappear and switch to another generic one. That would be a huge setback for your reliability and recognisability. Besides, old posts don't move with you and all other EU organisations also need to find a new home in the #fediverse. So can you make sure the current EU instance keeps spinning? Seems like a no-brainer although you might have to take some bureaucratic hurdles…
Ton Zijlstra
@EU_Commission Hopefully you will do so on one of your own domains. And invite the other EU institutions and agencies to do so too. Having your own domain (rather than using mastodon.social or twitter.com) means we all can be certain that you are who you say you are. Organisations should run their own instances, or use their websites to also share to ActivityPub. My organisation does, my website does. Let the EC lead by example!
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
@EU_Commission FTR - an account on threads.net is NOT a solution, IMHO. The better solution is to use a minimal part of the money you spend on blockchain projects to keep the instance you are on alive. ;)
Robert "Szkodnix"
@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu We are still confused after your previous announcement from here: https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/edps-decentralised-social-media-pilot-end-successful-story_en
Would you be able to share more information soon enough? We appreciate our right to be informed about all things related to EU and not being tracked by big tech. Your previous announcement brought a lot of concerns about your presence on Fediverse and we believe that without your comment soon enough it might be discouraging for more public services considering switching to Fediverse.
Could you please address this soon?
Micha
@carlschwan @croydon @EU_Commission
Found it here: https://tube.network.europa.eu/w/akYVneAVtrMDcmveC9UKjF
Carl Schwan :kde:
@croydon @EU_Commission They posted about the problem before :/ There was at least a presentation about the struggle of the instance at the Freedom Not Fear conference last year by some of the people involved in this effort.
Boud
This is a side issue, but when there's a conversation between a human and a media team of humans, it's interesting to at least get some feeling for who might be "hiding" in the team. In the case of @EU_Commission my guess is the people here tagged 'social media':
are the team behind the @. The profile itself says nothing specific about who manages the messages, how their content is decided (e.g. on an internal wiki, on a cryptpad, or on a git repository).
Corinna Balkow
@EU_Commission How does your announcement connect with these articles about EU institutions run by the European Date Protection Supervisor to be shut down in May?
Boud
@EU_Commission Please clarify that by "Fediverse" your team means the Fediverse itself and that you do *not* mean Meta/FB's "Threads".
It is unacceptable for the EU Commission to provide support for Meta/FB's role in hate speech [1] [2], its role in the #RohingyaGenocide [3][4] and its role in the #TigrayGenocide [5][6].
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/technology/facebook-india-misinformation.html
[3] https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/facebook-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya
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