@EU_Commission Hope that whatever platform software you choose, you have your own instance, setting the lead for other governments’ social presence.

@EU_Commission

Good News!

@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

[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

@EU_Commission this is a good source of EU news for me, thank you for working on keeping it going 🫰

@EU_Commission You shoyld stop using this facists media called X

@EU_Commission you made the right choice. Looking forward to your next move.

@EU_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

@EU_Commission Honestly, this is a farce!

@EU_Commission That's nothing else than a clear downgrade.
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.

@EU_Commission The fact that you'd have to close your dedicated instance is pretty sad though.

@EU_Commission instead of staging a technology example, which is known to work in general but have some flaws, wouldn't it be most straightforward to just continue operation of the existing and established servers?

@EU_Commission
must o done
#mastodon #eu

@EU_Commission @briankrebs

the cool kids are using fedi but then #SocialWeb. thanks for sticking around.

@EU_Commission c'es super cool in en val le coup Vivaldi et formidable et sais du sérieux sais réseaux sociaux aussi vraiment

@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…

@EU_Commission great to hear, well done and thank you! 🇪🇺

@EU_Commission Yay EU! Nice to have you here.

@EU_Commission Piss off to Threads or whatever.

🔥🇪🇺🔥

@EU_Commission
You do know the monthly costs of running a single Mastodon server are a fraction of the handwaving implied by this single post, do you?

@EU_Commission Better than identity portability would be finding a way to keep your current server operating for you and all the other official EU accounts using it.