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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.

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Café-Junkie

DE:
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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Corinna Balkow

How does your announcement connect with these articles about EU institutions run by the European Date Protection Supervisor to be shut down in May?

netzpolitik.org/2024/mastodon-…


Mastodon and Peertube: EU closing up shop in Fediverse because nobody wants to run servers

EU institutions are active on Mastodon and Peertube servers, thanks to a pilot project run by the European Data Protection Supervisor. But they’ll be shut down in May – because nobody wants to be responsible for them.
netzpolitik.org
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Carlos Solís

@Maxi 8x 💉 @Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 @FediThing @European Commission I'm astonished at the fact that most #ActivityPub platforms allow exporting your posts, but practically none allow importing them back.
@Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 @European Commission @Maxi 10x 💉 @FediThing 🏳️‍🌈
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Boud

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] nytimes.com/2021/10/23/technol…

[2] businessinsider.com/facebooks-…

[3] amnestyusa.org/reports/faceboo…

[4] erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanma…

[5] archive.today/2023.11.16-13232…

[6] web.archive.org/web/2023010514…


Meta accused in lawsuit of allowing posts that inflamed Ethiopia conflict

The case echoes accusations Meta has faced over content on its platforms related to violence elsewhere, including in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Cambodia
Katie Paul and Ayenat Mersie (The Globe and Mail)
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Maxi 10x 💉

@rysiek @csolisr @FediThing Btw: It’s possible even with Mastodon to import toots to an account. But you have to patch the Mastodon server: social.luca.run/@luca/11211585…

Still, you would lose all attached discussion threads.

Luca Hammer (@luca@social.luca.run)

Attached: 1 image @ErikUden@mastodon.de @guerda@ruhr.social @svenja@fedisabled.social Ja, Inhalt hat dann den gleichen Zeitstempel. Originalpost: https://det.social/@luca/109559157244375603 Importierter Post: https://social.luca.
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@Carlos Solís @Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 @FediThing 🏳️‍🌈
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xs4me2

Good to hear, saw some other confusing and disappointing messages today!

edps.europa.eu/press-publicati…


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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Silmathoron ⁂

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...

@EDPS
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Etua

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.
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@andresmh EU instances are being shut down on the 18th of May apparently:
mstdn.social/@EDPS@social.netw…

EDPS

2024-04-26 08:12:30


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

People using laptops, a smartphone, a database and one is sitting on a cloud.

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

@Andrés Monroy-Hernández
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Bart Knubben

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…
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Ton Zijlstra

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!
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Wouter Tebbens

That's great to hear, that the @EU_Commission is here to stay in the #Fediverse. After the prolongued pilot by the @EDPS

edps.europa.eu/press-publicati…


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
@European Commission @EDPS
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chris@strafpla.net

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…

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Carlos Solís

@Dave @Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 @Maxi 8x 💉 @FediThing Fair enough! There should be a final step where an administrator approves or rejects the import, but otherwise, with some human interaction in the final step and some reasonable upload limitations (as imports are usually required once per account), I don't see why should the ability to import data be restricted completely.
@Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 @Maxi 10x 💉 @FediThing 🏳️‍🌈
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Roland Alton

- 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.
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