if you say you want to continue using your #feediverse server Infrastruktor and your #Mastodon Accounts, I'll quit my job & help this Projekt and its Operations for free for two years
@derPUPE@EU_Commission@EDPS But why should you have to do that? No one who works at the EU Commission (or EDPS or the European Parliament, etc.) works for free and this isn’t about lack of budget. If you were to do that, you should be paid a fair wage.
The successful #Mastodon and #PeerTube instances for #EU institutions run by @EDPS will be shut down on May 18th 😥
It seems that the #EuropeanCommission and #EVP have no interest in promoting independent, #bigtech-free and low-surveillance European platforms and thus a free and democratic discourse…
@joeo10@larkim There will be plenty of time to get angry when it comes to it, but what's the point of having @EU_Commission here if we don't give them the benefit of the doubt?
I also want the EU to continue to have its own instance, but if @EDPS won't continue to run social.network.europa.eu, I think it's best to focus our attention on convincing the accounts to stay in the fediverse and come back to an EU instance at a later date (probably run by another org, maybe the Commission itself).
Eh, what? Just as @EU_Commission is finally finding their voice here, the server is shut down? This makes zero sense, @EDPS. On the contrary, the Commissioners, MEPs, and other key people should be guided off the cesspool site they still linger around.