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EDPS , the organization that hosts (?) this mastodon is funded with $20M from the EU budget. It employs 96 people (last data i could find). ( Obviously not just for mastodon) I d actually like to see something like a public funded mastodon, like we have public TV
The EDPS does a lot more. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Data_Protection_Sup...
It's quite sensible really, why would you leave a method of disseminating official statements vulnerable to the whims of a private American corporation? Discussion still can and will be held on platforms not directly controlled by governments.
> whims of a private American corporation It's worse. Whims of one American individual.
It's quite sensible really, why would you leave a method of disseminating official statements vulnerable to the whims of a private American corporation? Discussion still can and will be held on platforms not directly controlled by governments.
> whims of a private American corporation It's worse. Whims of one American individual.
Worth pointing out that this was launched some months ago, it's not related to ongoing events with twitter They also have a peertube instance https://tube.network.europa.eu/
I don't understand why the EU bothers wasting money on these initiatives. No one uses these platforms. Why don't they buy a considerable stake in these American social media companies instead of trying to reinvent the wheel that is deflating as soon as it launches. https://tube.network.europa.eu URL looks like a scam website. There is no way tech illiterate people can use these websites. Their first video that appear…
Because they don't cost much? If at all?
> Why don't they buy a considerable stake in these American social media companies instead of trying to reinvent the wheel that is deflating as soon as it launches.
Because if they did, the US is going to freak out about foreign influence.
just look at how the media is reporting on Saudi Arabia investing in Twitter.
Saudi Arabia is one of biggest users for Twitter in the World(1), its where everything official gets announced, almost everyone has a Twitter account.
> https://tube.network.europa.eu URL looks like a scam website.
I agree, the URL is very weird, maybe mastodon/puretube.official.eu would've been better
> There is no way tech illiterate people can use these websites.
> Their first video that appears on the website "The future of data protection: Effective enforcement in the digital world - full video" is 1 week old and has 27 views.
They can use this as a backup, or as a source of truth for any official content from the EU.
1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/242606/number-of-active-...
You need to take into account the percentage of users to the population, in SA its close to 50%.
Worth pointing out that this was launched some months ago, it's not related to ongoing events with twitter They also have a peertube instance https://tube.network.europa.eu/
I don't understand why the EU bothers wasting money on these initiatives. No one uses these platforms. Why don't they buy a considerable stake in these American social media companies instead of trying to reinvent the wheel that is deflating as soon as it launches. https://tube.network.europa.eu URL looks like a scam website. There is no way tech illiterate people can use these websites. Their first video that appear…
What? instead of investing in a server and some open source code we should bive Elon a few millions? Are you Elon or how does this logic work ?
News websites can link to twitter or any other website as easily , is not like the average EU citizens is actually following any EU institutions (no idea about politicians, who is the regulat guy that wants political pam), I only see twitter embeded or screenshot in news webistes, the experience would not differ if the text is on a higher quality website but with less active users.
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> whims of a private American corporation Exactly. Private corporations that adhere to US law and have demonstrated that they don't operate in good faith. Each country should control official channels of communication.
Not only that, but US digital law hasn't caught up to modernity. One can make the argument that European laws have, at least to a much greater extent.
P.S.: In a perhaps different sense, it has been decades since modernity ended.