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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.
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Cr0ydon
in reply to European Commission • • •nexus II
in reply to Cr0ydon • • •They can't seem to find anyone willing to maintain a server.
Flo
in reply to nexus II • • •Cr0ydon
in reply to Flo • • •@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 😂
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Rehunauris
in reply to European Commission • • •Darnell Clayton :verified:
in reply to European 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.
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smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊), Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦, Oblomov e Giuseppe Aceto reshared this.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to European Commission • • •Oblomov reshared this.
FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •@rysiek
Oooh, interesting option! They could move their existing accounts to a third party server... not as great as their own server obviously, but much better than just deleting the accounts.
And it means if they bring the server back at some point they can move the accounts back there. The social graph would be preserved.
Maxi 8x 💉
in reply to FediThing 🏳️🌈 • • •Oblomov reshared this.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Maxi 8x 💉 • • •@frumble yeah, it's public record. That's a very good point.
@FediThing @EU_Commission
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Carlos Solís
in reply to Maxi 8x 💉 • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Carlos Solís • • •@csolisr the problem is with identifiers. A post needs to be uniquely identifiable across the network. Apparently that's highly non-trivial in AP.
@EU_Commission @frumble @FediThing
Maxi 8x 💉
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •@rysiek @csolisr @FediThing Btw: It’s possible even with Mastodon to import toots to an account. But you have to patch the Mastodon server: https://social.luca.run/@luca/112115854466185937
Still, you would lose all attached discussion threads.
Luca Hammer
2024-03-18 08:56:13
FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to Maxi 8x 💉 • • •That's true, yeah! Good point.
marcelcosta
in reply to FediThing 🏳️🌈 • • •Andrés Monroy-Hernández
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Andrés Monroy-Hernández • • •@andresmh EU instances are being shut down on the 18th of May apparently:
https://mstdn.social/@EDPS@social.network.europa.eu/112336515017671681
EDPS
2024-04-26 08:12:30
Garret :bongoCat:
in reply to European Commission • • •I live in the United States, and this is cool to see.
I hope our government figures out they don’t have to rely on private social media companies if they don’t want to.
Café-Junkie
in reply to European Commission • • •Wäre schon, wenn diese Bekenntnis zu dezentralen Diensten und Open-Source auch in anderen Bereichen Eingang finden würde, der Büro-IT öffentlicher Institutionen insbesondere!
EN:
It would be great if this commitment to decentralized services and open source would also find its way into other areas, especially the office IT of public institutions!
#ITSouveränität #foss #opensource #ITSovereignty
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Mark Mullen
in reply to European Commission • • •Franchesko
in reply to European Commission • • •Jele
in reply to European Commission • • •acb
in reply to European Commission • • •Chris Were 🐧📰🌱☕
in reply to European Commission • • •Alb_
in reply to European Commission • • •So you've really got a team working full-time just on mastodon/fediverse post writing.
Then stop hiring since some of them are overload!
Your posts are interesting though.
Corinna Balkow
in reply to European 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?
https://netzpolitik.org/2024/mastodon-and-peertube-eu-closing-up-shop-in-fediverse-because-nobody-wants-to-run-servers/
Mastodon and Peertube: EU closing up shop in Fediverse because nobody wants to run servers
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Benjamin Balder Bach
in reply to Corinna Balkow • • •@coba it's a direct response to an EDPS public announcement from earlier today, which indicated that the project with official EU Fediverse servers would end: https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/edps-decentralised-social-media-pilot-end-successful-story_en
It seems to indicate that the commission will take over. Which makes sense - the project ends with a huge success, so the EU institutions should naturally want to continue the good development.
EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
European Data Protection SupervisorKlaudia (aka jinxx)
in reply to European Commission • • •Meercat ✅
in reply to European Commission • • •exiltoaster :breadified:
in reply to European Commission • • •Ozzy
in reply to European Commission • • •SparkIT likes this.
guetto 🧑💻 🇪🇺
in reply to European Commission • • •Don't you already have an IT service for your daily work?
Amandine B (She/Her)
in reply to European Commission • • •Lunga vita e prosperità.
in reply to European Commission • • •RustyBertrand
in reply to European Commission • • •Saúl ~ curri
in reply to European Commission • • •#vonderleyendimision
linuzifer
in reply to European Commission • • •ordnung (@ordnung@23.social)
23katzenberger
in reply to European Commission • • •Matv1
in reply to European Commission • • •radioactivestardust
in reply to European Commission • • •Simon Wood
in reply to European Commission • • •DerAsket
in reply to European Commission • • •Boud
in reply to European 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
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-local-partners-say-hate-speech-stays-on-the-platform-2023-4
[3] https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/facebook-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya
[4] https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series
[5] https://archive.today/2023.11.16-132321/https://www.amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/ethiopia-metas-failures-contributed-to-abuses-against-tigrayan-community-during-conflict-in-northern-ethiopia
[6] https://web.archive.org/web/20230105140852/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-meta-accused-in-lawsuit-of-allowing-posts-that-inflamed-ethiopia
Meta accused in lawsuit of allowing posts that inflamed Ethiopia conflict
Katie Paul and Ayenat Mersie (The Globe and Mail)voltar13
in reply to European Commission • • •Unai
in reply to European Commission • • •Hans Slonzok
in reply to European Commission • • •Alberto Cottica
in reply to European Commission • • •xs4me2
in reply to European Commission • • •Good to hear, saw some other confusing and disappointing messages today!
https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/edps-decentralised-social-media-pilot-end-successful-story
EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
European Data Protection Supervisormaarten brouwers
in reply to xs4me2 • • •💭 tinderness
in reply to European Commission • • •Tyrone Slothrop
in reply to European Commission • • •This is a heartening promise.
I hope that the final setup will be a server run by one of the EU institutions, with accounts for all the different bodies and - why not - staff of the EU organs.
Silmathoron
in reply to European Commission • • •I'm glad to hear that!
I must say, though, that I'm having a hard time trying to make this announcement consistent with the one from @EDPS : they mentioned an issue keeping the server and service at the "high standards that EUIs and our users deserve" but you talk about moving somewhere else so I'm kind of wondering how a 3rd party could meet these standards...
Etua
in reply to European Commission • • •Going from most important:
1. Closed-registration server in europa.eu domain was a better guarantee of profile authenticity than looking for the green bars in profiles on some random public instances. We're talking about one of the biggest orgs in the world.
2. Theses profiles will be dependent on third-party admins for moderation, accessibility etc.
3. I don't believe every profile will move. I suspect we'll loose some in the process.
lertsenem
in reply to European Commission • • •KarlE
in reply to European Commission • • •Synapsenkitzler
in reply to European Commission • • •#mastodon #eu
william.maggos
in reply to European Commission • • •@briankrebs
the cool kids are using fedi but then #SocialWeb. thanks for sticking around.
Olivier Borel
in reply to European Commission • • •Bart Knubben
in reply to European Commission • • •Quincy reshared this.
João Costa 💚🌻🇵🇹🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧
in reply to European Commission • • •Chris Who
in reply to European Commission • • •Yay EU! Nice to have you here.
cwtshycwtsh
in reply to European Commission • • •Piss off to Threads or whatever.
🔥🇪🇺🔥
Jerry van Kooten
in reply to cwtshycwtsh • • •@cwtshycwtsh
Could you piss off to Xitter? Your attitude is what many people were trying to avoid here.
Ton Zijlstra
in reply to European Commission • • •Jerry van Kooten
in reply to European Commission • • •@European Commission
It's great to see this account here. Following.
Osma A
in reply to European Commission • • •Jeremiah Lee
in reply to European Commission • • •Wouter Tebbens
in reply to European Commission • • •That's great to hear, that the @EU_Commission is here to stay in the #Fediverse. After the prolongued pilot by the @EDPS
https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/edps-decentralised-social-media-pilot-end-successful-story_en
EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
European Data Protection SupervisorLasse Gismo - 🇮🇱🇺🇦🇸🇩 :nona:
in reply to European Commission • • •👍
@crossgolf_rebel
KMJ 🇦🇹
in reply to European Commission • • •You should do a press release immediately to not shutdown the servers, as posted by @EDPS in may and furthermore you should commit to a long time financing the servers, also after the elections. Otherwise all will think you post a commitment now and forget about it after the election.
Be sure there are lot of people out there watching you, handling decentralized open source projects and your response to https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/european-commissions-use-microsoft-365-infringes-data-protection-law-eu-institutions-and-bodies_en .
EU citizens are interested in your decision
European Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU institutions and bodies
European Data Protection SupervisorBDM likes this.
Scammo
in reply to European Commission • • •Toni Aittoniemi
in reply to European Commission • • •Go Europe Go!
Commitment to open systems can only be shown. Talk is cheap. 🫡
luki
in reply to European Commission • • •Lisseuse
in reply to European Commission • • •Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
in reply to European Commission • • •Sir Toootenstein
in reply to European Commission • • •chris@strafpla.net
in reply to European Commission • • •Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der Glaube.
Eine Mastodon-Instanz mit accounts nach dem Schema
@account@commission.europa.eu aufzusetzen (oder halt die vorhandene zu übernehmen ggf. zentralisierter umzubenennen und redirects zu bauen) ist vielleicht anspruchsvoll, aber sicher nicht komplett unmöglich.
Ein Konzept für die Moderation ist evtl. schwieriger und mit Minen versetzt.
Aber das Ganze vor dem 18. zu schaffen? Ich weiss nicht…
Paul Nemitz
in reply to European Commission • • •BDM
in reply to Paul Nemitz • • •@Paul Nemitz Can you elaborate on the massive miscommunication of EDPS and Commission in this case? Are we seeing malicious intent? And if not, then how do they want to govern the EU if they are unable to maintain a simple Fediverse server or start planning early enough to solve the question of how to continue running it after time period x ends?
😵💫
Danie van der Merwe
in reply to European Commission • • •Da_Boom
in reply to European Commission • • •Gerriet Selent 😁🐧🍓 #FuckAfD
in reply to European Commission • • •way for another eu parts
Futuro Prossimo :verified:
in reply to European Commission • • •Dr. Kotta 🧶
in reply to European Commission • • •Elfamir
in reply to European Commission • • •Niavy :bearn: :verified:
in reply to European Commission • • •Christopher Hlubek
in reply to European Commission • • •👍
Please don't always think in projects with fixed time-span / scope. Topics like these need sustainable funding and people building knowledge maintaining and moderating these solutions. If you skip the usual firms selling IT solutions many levels deep it's mere peanuts in terms of the budget...
S . G . A .
in reply to European Commission • • •outst☆r
in reply to European Commission • • •Sebastien 🌍 🇵🇸🇺🇦
in reply to European Commission • • •I couldn't care less.
First you broke the internet and now you even fucked my iPhone. 🤬
wobweger :verified:
in reply to European Commission • • •excellent, good to have you here
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Barbara
in reply to European Commission • • •Roland Alton
in reply to European Commission • • •