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Two years ago, #EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey launching a pilot project of two decentralised social media platforms: #EUVoice & #EUVideo.

18 May will mark the end of the project. Time to review the results of this successful story.

Read Press Release https://europa.eu/!yJqDgK

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story

Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms.
European Data Protection Supervisor
#edps #EUVoice #EUVideo
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Helma 🤗
Helma 🤗
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😭
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Erik Jonker
Erik Jonker
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@helma ...seriously, with all the money going around in the EU it can't fund the servers for EDPS ? Besides the fact that this funding would directly contribute to explicit EU goals with regard to digital/digitisation ? How can this happen ? 🤔
#EDPS #EU #fediverse #funding
#fediverse #eu #funding #edps @Helma 🤗
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Helma 🤗
Helma 🤗
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It is all too sad that you in specific as privacy protector leave this platform.
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Juanro :croqueta:
Juanro :croqueta:
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normal que se chapen las instancias, la UE no es mas que la mascota de USA, y por tanto, debe obedecer sus órdenes y usar sus redes monitorizadas por sus agencias de inteligencia en vez de tener soberanía.
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KMJ 🇦🇹
KMJ 🇦🇹
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It looks like it is time for a change in the EU. Everybody fully knowing they operate against the law while breaking GDPR should be in full personal responsibility. These people are mostly the ones killing decentralized projects where people control their data.

So much money are burned for senseless things there and they are unable to operate a few servers?

Hopefully media is making a huge story out of it so the election in June is a chance for a massive change.

Unbelievable.

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Asta McCarthy
Asta McCarthy
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This is very regrettable, if the project is so successful, why not expand it and make it permanent?
cc @echo_pbreyer
@Patrick Breyer
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Silmathoron
Silmathoron
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could you explain what this sentence means?

> we have been unable to secure new ownership to maintain the servers

Ownership of what? Does this means that these were so far not your servers?
@EU_Commission has quite a few servers for their websites and programs so I'm having a hard time imagining how keeping two more services would not be possible...

Anyway, that's really quite sad.

@European Commission
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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this is really unfortunate, to say the least.

I appreciate that you embarked on this project. Thank you for taking that risk!

The fact that all of the European Commission cannot find an agency to own it and continue maintaining it is unfathomable.

Especially in the context of how digital sovereignty gets so much lip-service from the Commission.

EC's priorities seem upside-down.

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FediThing 🏳️‍🌈
FediThing 🏳️‍🌈
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@pettter @rysiek
Reading between the lines, it seems that people in charge of funding don't understand the point of self-hosted social media. They just think "more/easier followers on commercial centralised services" and don't think any further about how those follows are manipulated and held hostage through algorithms etc.
@pettter @Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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Alberto Cottica
Alberto Cottica
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you should reconsider. Having your own instance means we know these accounts are legit, and boost trust. If you crowdsource, I will even contribute. Cc @rysiek
@Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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same, even though I suspect crowdsourcing is legally difficult for an EU institution like @EDPS.
@EDPS
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Petra van Cronenburg
Petra van Cronenburg
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I think that money is not the problem. In this bureaucratic world they need someone who becomes responsable and can say: We do it.

It's a tragedy because now they give that power to people like Musk and Zuckerberg & Co.

@alberto_cottica @EDPS

@EDPS @Alberto Cottica
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Alberto Cottica
Alberto Cottica
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@NatureMC @rysiek of course money is not the problem. What we are doing here is participation, even collaboration with democratic European institutions. Which is the point of their social media presence. Hopefully someone in Comms at EDPS flags it to the higher ups. "People really appreciate us being here, just saying...". Will you do it, person running the account? It would be a way for the 100K citizens following @EU_Commission to feel closer to the EU institutions.
@European Commission @Petra van Cronenburg @Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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Nuno & Lua :DsaprvingLua:
Nuno & Lua :DsaprvingLua:
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so this means you'll be working for commercial platforms that do not ensure privacy from now on... Probably it's time to defund you since you're clearly not fulfilling your purpose.
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Nemo_bis 🌈
Nemo_bis 🌈
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Sad. Re:

> The EDPS will facilitate the required migration of EUIs who wish to keep their accounts active in the Fediverse

Do you need fediverse instance admins to volunteer their instances to host the migrating accounts? Do you already have adequate target instances for everyone?

#FediMeta #EUpolicy

#EUPolicy #FediMeta
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Dylan Van Assche
Dylan Van Assche
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Really great that the pilot was a success! It's super sad that the #EU will stop with Mastodon and PeerTube now because of resources since it was a success. It's sad that there are resources to maintain presence on #BigTech social media but not here. Thank you anyway for at least trying this with a pilot!
#bigtech #eu
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Ton Zijlstra
Ton Zijlstra
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That is rather astounding as EDPS and other institutions do remain on Twitter, despite adtech being time and again found in breach of GDPR. Because X accounts don't carry any out-of-pocket costs, except the externalised costs to all EU citizen's privacy. I applaud the EDPS' experiment, but this is not exactly leading by example, and precisely at the time the EC is trying to make enforcing the digital and data strategies believable to the public eye.
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Petra van Cronenburg
Petra van Cronenburg
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WHY when it was successful, WHY??? And does it mean that The EU will also give up the EU-instance completely?
I hear NOW that these platforms existed ... perhaps your communication was not so successful?
Why before the elections? That's so dangerous.
And you want to give ressources and power to the big corporations that violate EU law so often???
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chris@strafpla.net
chris@strafpla.net
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Can you publish the number of followers the individual accounts had/have?
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timetunnel
timetunnel
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This is a huge step backwards and extremely short-sighted by whoever is responsible for this decision.
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Bart Knubben
Bart Knubben
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@edps Sad 😢 ! How does this fit with the following recent post from @EU_Commission ?

https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112302373606720402

European Commission

2024-04-20 07:30:30


We are a Union of 27 countries and 450 million people sharing one future.

Diversity is what defines, unites us.
Diversity is also what makes us love the fediverse.

As we mark two years on Mastodon, thank you for enlivening the conversation with insightful comments and content.

Love does not increase after the first day, but it deepens.

Let's make this journey even more engaging!

What topics did you like the most and would like to see more often 👇


@European Commission @edps
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Steven
Steven
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It has been a huge success, so you're stopping? Is that EU logic?
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lertsenem
lertsenem
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It's really depressing that an institution as powerful as the #EU can't find an agency to keep running these successful projects. :/
#eu
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pera
pera
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disappointing, this will only hinder the EU's data sovereignty objectives, but thanks to those who worked on this pilot for the past two years
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Tomi the Slav and 1024 others
Tomi the Slav and 1024 others
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Dear EDPS and other responsible for this decision,
I will gladly manage Mastodon servers for you, moderate them and pay out of my own pocket for it. How many accounts do you have? 50 or so? No problem.
Please contact me and continue your presence on #fediverse.
Dissapearing from fediverse will send a strong negative signal, dismissing EU's digital soverignty.
@EU_Commission
@DigitalEU
#fediverse @European Commission @Digital EU 🇪🇺
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European Commission
European Commission
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Hi @po3mah! Thank you for the offer, and for being an active part of our community on the fediverse. Know that we intend to keep our account running, and are actively working on a solution.
@Tomi the Slav and 1024 others
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tomi
tomi
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@EU_Commission @po3mah

Thank you for responding and for 2-way communication!

Could you please clarify your (and other EU institutions) plans, because @EDPS is sending mixed and cryptic messages like 'experiment completed, service will be closed, only those who wish will remain'.

@European Commission @EDPS @Tomi the Slav and 1024 others
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Alex
Alex
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🤦‍♂️Seriously? But for sure enough resources for M365 etc. I am shocked. Farewell digital sovereignty.#EUVoice #EUVideo #EU
#eu #EUVoice #EUVideo
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Ton Zijlstra
Ton Zijlstra
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Perhaps you can submit a proposal to @NGIZero for funding and have DG CNECT pay for it indirectly that way ;)
@NGI Zero open source funding
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Rebecca Cotton-Weinhold
Rebecca Cotton-Weinhold
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This is very disappointing and concerning. Why are you calling it a success AND shutting down? How does this go together with the EUs goal toward being more independent from closed source platforms. This makes no sense.
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Sebastian "spaetz" Spaeth
Sebastian "spaetz" Spaeth
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ok, no the @EU_Commission's toot on their commitment to remain in the #fediverse makes sense.

A pity that you can't keep the domain and server running and hand it over to some other #EU agency which is able to keep the lights on. I do hope those EU agencies will be able to move to another European server soon.
https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112338626558805977

European Commission

2024-04-26 17:10:06


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.


#fediverse #eu @European Commission
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katzenberger
katzenberger
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Would you mind publishing the slides, too, of Wojciech Wiewiórowski's talk "Fediverse for Public Administration. Why we try and why we fail?" at the Freedom Not Fear Conference 2023?

It is a pity that some metrics get mentioned verbally, but one cannot look up what exactly they are, and how they look like.

https://tube.network.europa.eu/w/akYVneAVtrMDcmveC9UKjF

edps

2023-09-06 08:08:03


EDPS - Freedom Not Fear Conference 2023


Speech by Wojciech Wiewiórowski at Freedom Not Fear conference on Fediverse for Public Administration. Why we try and why we fail?, Brussels, Belgium.


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K~
K~
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It seems a bit off. On the one hand, it is saying that the pilot was a success; it was well used and it achieved its goal. But then it goes on to say that it will not continue.

Like "everything went great, and so we're shutting it down". I'd like to hear more about the reasons for that.

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Kerfuffle
Kerfuffle
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Closing this down now does more harm than had this pilot never been started, as it suggests a Meta or X alternative is easier.

Setting up and maintaining a fediverse server is done by amateurs across the globe in their free time using Ko-fi pocket money. That's not easy, but the fediverse thrives regardless.

Keeping this up with the resources at the EU's disposal should be zero effort. "Not able to secure resources" can only be interpreted as a lack of trying

#EDPS #EUVoice #EUVideo

#edps #EUVoice #EUVideo
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Paul Nemitz
Paul Nemitz
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Hello @EDPS please move your feed to @eupolicy.social and thus keep going on Mastodon. We are a small group of volunteers, including one from the EDPS, running this server. It costs you nothing and it is run to highest data protection and security standards.
@EDPS

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cpot
cpot
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if it is a success why stopping it ? It makes no sense
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