👋 Our home here on Mastodon is closing, so we are moving to @IHIEurope - you should automatically follow us there, but if not, please do re-follow us in our new home.
👏 Huge thanks to @EDPS for running the #EUVoice server!
Hey @patrick_breyer_mep as #EUVoice is going to be shutting down, perhaps it's time to add building and maintaining sovereign social media infrastructure to campaign promises for the upcoming #Europarl elections? :blobcateyes:
Or is that somewhere there already and I just missed it? 👀
👉🏾 @EDPS announced EU voice is closing
👉🏾 @EU_Commission has 100,000 followers
👉🏾 #EuropeanCommission social #ActivityPub account will primarily be on Threads
👉🏾 EU Voice should ask citizens & local businesses in #Europe for instance funding help
Gotta say that EC's messaging is quite confusing. Hope there'll be more follow-up soon.
Yesterday I attended a @commonsnetwork organized event in The Hague about #Government and building #DigitalCommons, and among the crowds of representatives of many different institutions there, there was A TON of interest for decentralized #SocialWeb technologies.
@helma@EDPS ...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
@NatureMC@rysiek@EDPS 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.
A loud part of the Fediverse (majority or not 🤷) is afraid of federation with #threads. I disagree! For many organisations, this is a chance to escape the #networkeffect and improve #GDPR compliance. They can have a data-protection friendly presence in the #fediverse and still have followers who choose to have their accounts on #surveillanceCapitalism platforms. I hope that (a) Instagram accounts get also access to Fediverse content (b) they implement moving servers. 😉 #teamDatenschutz#EUVoice
#InCaseYouMissedIt In 2022, we launched two social media platforms #EUVoice & #EUVideo. The platforms are based on decentralised, free, Open-Source and privacy-oriented softwares.
We are the voice of #EUCivilSociety across the European Union.
Our mission is to:
⚖️ ensure that EU laws match the economic, social and civic needs of EU civil society;
🗣️ facilitate the participation and dialogue between the EU institutions and citizens;
🤝 foster democracy and fundamental values.
We are looking forward to engaging with you on this decentralised platform.
We are proud to announce #EDPS was shortlisted at #EOAward in 'excellence in innovation' category with the project #EUVoice & #EUVideo! Our pilot project aims to contribute to the EU’s strategy for data and digital sovereignty. Congratulations to @EU_Commission for the win with #EU Many thanks @ombudsman and congratulations to the winners!