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hint hint, all media outlets.
you don't even need to use Mastodon. just put the underlying protocols (ActivityPub) in your CMS and assign internal users through your LDAP.
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…
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I'm personally really tired of this trope, so instead of offering reasonable replies I'm just going to return the same spirit of ridicule back to you (despite HN guidelines, lol)
Sadly, as usual with Europe, a really good idea and... a very poor marketing! Mastodon is supposed to be a kind of Twitter replacement... so why not using the "public timeline" ( https://social.network.europa.eu/public ) as the landing page??? It would allow everybody to see that mastodon is not more complicated than twitter and would be more interesting than https://social.network.europa.eu/about/more or even https:…
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> I don't understand why the EU bothers wasting money on these initiatives 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 investin…
> mastodon/puretube.official.eu would've been better That's what europa.eu is, it's the official domain of the EU, every subdomain of europa.eu is an official website of the EU > > 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 I just thought to check but funnily enough the exact same video posted on…
Given the number of communication agencies working with the EU and since the EU had its own communication branches, one has to wonder whether having such a low outreach is by design and why this is.
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>I don't understand why the EU bothers wasting money on these initiatives. >Why don't they buy a considerable stake .... 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 a…
It's not about the cost of the service, it's that it's a pointless endeavour it's never going to succeed. Every social media company succeeds or fails based on the network effect. Where did I mention Elon?
If EU would buy a big share of Titter it gives money to Elon, if from FB you give the money to Mark etc.
You are implying that is pointless me to have a person website because I will not succeed to be more popular the FB or Twitter. The joke is on you I have a personal website and I run a blog and some static pages. EU is not attempting to defeat Twitter,
It makes sense (if your logic circuits work) that you should have a backup communication method because
1 Twitter or FB because they might block you and your then need to fight with AI bots to unblock your stuff
2 there might be users that do not use Twitter or FB
3 Twitter and FB might not respect user privacy so it is imporal to publish only on those
Sadly, as usual with Europe, a really good idea and... a very poor marketing! Mastodon is supposed to be a kind of Twitter replacement... so why not using the "public timeline" ( https://social.network.europa.eu/public ) as the landing page??? It would allow everybody to see that mastodon is not more complicated than twitter and would be more interesting than https://social.network.europa.eu/about/more or even https:…
Because the EU officials and subcontracted party do not have incentive make the product attractive. - There is no monetary incentive for developers based on the success of the product. Close proximity with the EU is enough to win the likely overpriced government contract, which is either a fixed price or by-the-hour. - The EU officials themselves rarely have ambitions or talent to make any good web services. Your suc…
It is worth mentioning that EU also funds the open source development required to enable translation engine in Mastodon: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19218 "This project was funded through the NGI0 Discovery Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under…
NLnet might have its roots in the EU, but you shouldn't conflate the two.
Sadly, as usual with Europe, a really good idea and... a very poor marketing! Mastodon is supposed to be a kind of Twitter replacement... so why not using the "public timeline" ( https://social.network.europa.eu/public ) as the landing page??? It would allow everybody to see that mastodon is not more complicated than twitter and would be more interesting than https://social.network.europa.eu/about/more or even https:…
Sadly, as usual with Europe, a really good idea and... a very poor marketing! Mastodon is supposed to be a kind of Twitter replacement... so why not using the "public timeline" ( https://social.network.europa.eu/public ) as the landing page??? It would allow everybody to see that mastodon is not more complicated than twitter and would be more interesting than https://social.network.europa.eu/about/more or even https:…
Because the EU officials and subcontracted party do not have incentive make the product attractive. - There is no monetary incentive for developers based on the success of the product. Close proximity with the EU is enough to win the likely overpriced government contract, which is either a fixed price or by-the-hour. - The EU officials themselves rarely have ambitions or talent to make any good web services. Your suc…
Do you have an example of such low quality webservice?