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 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
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Helma 🤗
in reply to EDPS • • •Erik Jonker
in reply to Helma 🤗 • • •#EDPS #EU #fediverse #funding
Juanro :croqueta: reshared this.
Darnell Clayton :verified:
in reply to Erik Jonker • • •@ErikJonker @helma As an American 🇺🇸, I am shocked that the #EuropeanUnion 🇪🇺 could be so short sited!
Will they allow their voice in the #Fediverse to solely rely upon #Threads when the latter federates in #Europe (as the #EU 🇪🇺 is active upon there)‽
Waking myself up & firing up an angry #WriteFreely post!
Helma 🤗
in reply to EDPS • • •Juanro :croqueta:
in reply to EDPS • • •KMJ 🇦🇹
in reply to EDPS • • •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.
Asta McCarthy
in reply to EDPS • • •cc @echo_pbreyer
Silmathoron
in reply to EDPS • • •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.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to EDPS • • •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.
pettter
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •@rysiek
> EC's priorities seem upside-down.
Unfortunate, but extremely par for the course.
FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to pettter • • •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.
Luka Prinčič / Prince Lucija
in reply to FediThing 🏳️🌈 • • •FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to Luka Prinčič / Prince Lucija • • •Yeah, I'm wondering how many others will be "fediwashing" their accounts by moving to Meta's platform.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to FediThing 🏳️🌈 • • •@FediThing I am sooo stealing that term from you.
@luka @pettter @EDPS
Alberto Cottica
in reply to EDPS • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Alberto Cottica • • •Petra van Cronenburg
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •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
Alberto Cottica
in reply to Petra van Cronenburg • • •Nuno & Lua :DsaprvingLua:
in reply to EDPS • • •Nemo_bis 🌈
in reply to EDPS • • •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
asandikci
in reply to EDPS • • •Dylan Van Assche
in reply to EDPS • • •Ton Zijlstra
in reply to EDPS • • •Petra van Cronenburg
in reply to EDPS • • •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???
BDM (BeautifulDowntownMannheim)
in reply to EDPS • • •Are you kidding? I hope you have been hacked and this is just a sad joke. Otherwise this would be very disappointing and obviously the wrong path to take. Unsure what such actions tell about your competence in this space, but I fear nothing good.
Goes to show you are not interested in real dialog with citizens. What a sad day. Can't believe this is real.
chris@strafpla.net
in reply to EDPS • • •timetunnel
in reply to EDPS • • •tech
in reply to EDPS • • •Bart Knubben
in reply to EDPS • • •@edps Sad 😢 ! How does this fit with the following recent post from @EU_Commission ?
social.network.europa.eu/@EU_C…
European Commission
2024-04-20 07:30:30
Steven
in reply to EDPS • • •FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to EDPS • • •Thank you EDPS for the work you've done, I'm so sorry that people higher up in charge of funding have let you down like this.
You're doing the right thing, they are being incredibly shortsighted by throwing away this work.
At the very least, couldn't they just put an RSS bot feed onto the existing accounts instead of throwing away all those follows?
João Costa 💚🌻🇵🇹🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧
in reply to EDPS • • •ThierryJoffredo :mastodon:
in reply to EDPS • • •@EDPS
lertsenem
in reply to EDPS • • •pera
in reply to EDPS • • •Tomi the Slav and 1024 others
in reply to EDPS • • •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
European Commission
in reply to Tomi the Slav and 1024 others • • •tomi
in reply to European Commission • • •@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'.
Alex
in reply to EDPS • • •Ton Zijlstra
in reply to EDPS • • •Rebecca Cotton-Weinhold
in reply to EDPS • • •Sebastian "spaetz" Spaeth
in reply to EDPS • • •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.
social.network.europa.eu/@EU_C…
European Commission
2024-04-26 17:10:06
katzenberger
in reply to EDPS • • •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.
tube.network.europa.eu/w/akYVn…
EDPS - Freedom Not Fear Conference 2023
EU VideoK~
in reply to EDPS • • •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.
Kerfuffle
in reply to EDPS • • •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
Paul Nemitz
in reply to EDPS • • •cpot
in reply to EDPS • • •( hellekin )
in reply to EDPS • • •From what I understand, everybody within the @EU_Commission was very happy and supportive of the #EUVoice experiment by @EDPS. Everybody within @EC_NGI is absolutely delighted with the work done by @NGIZero, yet, when EDPS asked what branch of the European Union would take charge of the #ActivityPub presence of the Union, everybody turned they heads away.
Yet, the #EU keeps spending tons of public money on X or Meta. This is #shameful.
Thank you EDPS.
Shame on you @vonderleyen
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( hellekin )
in reply to ( hellekin ) • • •@EU_Commission @EC_NGI @NGIZero @vonderleyen
Now, from May 18, 2024, we, European citizens, are left with no public access to European institutions, since all their communications will go through US-based private companies that the #EU fined repeatedly for breaking the European Law.
What kind of political power is that? Submitting #GDPR protected citizens to the global surveillance of NSA through USA's "National Security Exception to GDPR"?
#DigitalSovereignty LOL
( hellekin )
in reply to ( hellekin ) • • •@EU_Commission @EC_NGI @NGIZero @vonderleyen
On the one hand you're giving us, European citizens and free software developers, the task to build our own sovereign public digital infrastructure, and at the same time, on the other hand, you're spitting in our faces.
This is disgusting. You do not deserve us. We have to make it happen in spite of your ignorance and stupidity, this is what it is.
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smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)
in reply to ( hellekin ) • • •@how @EU_Commission @EC_NGI @NGIZero
There was some hint (or maybe I misinterpreted) of some follow-up for the #EUVoice and #EUVideo pilot.
Nothing concrete mentioned and no further official announcement. Maybe @EDPS could provide more insight if this is indeed the case?
Meanwhile it is HIGHLY ironic that
@vonderleyen is a #Xitter mirror operated by Federico Leva in Finland together with numerous other unofficial bridges. *Frequently* confused with official accounts.
federicoleva.eu/en/
Federico Leva
federicoleva.euMichael Mrak
in reply to EDPS • • •