Yeah, I too wish that CSPAN were as popular and subscribed to as CNN, but for some reason, people don't find uncommented live streams of House committee and city council meetings interesting.
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#142So its the propaganda channel of the EU on activitypub?
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#143Sadly, 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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#144It'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.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
And the journalist issue is solved by media companies having official servers under their domain.
This is exactly how the federated "twitter" should work.
This is what Dorsey and Musk discussed in private according to court documents[0].
: “I believe it must be an open source protocol, funded by a foundation of sorts that doesn’t own the protocol, only advances it. A bit like what Signal has done. It can’t have an advertising model.”
0.https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/now-twitter-belongs-elon-h...
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#146Sadly, 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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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
>Each country should control official channels of communication. I don't want to create 100 accounts to access each countries totally unique and special websites. It's a bad system and ultimately will lead to less discourse and not more.
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, I've never used mastodon, but I expect part of the "federated" bit means being able to "follow" users from other Mastodon instances, including EU Voice. So you'd need just one account on a Mastodon instances to follow every EU government/institution announcements on EU Voice.
If not on Mastodon, RSS feeds still exist.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's federation. You also wouldn't expect every citizen to get an @europarl.europa.eu e-mail-adress. The platform is decentralised by design, so just by joining, the EU is contributing to "providing a platform" imho.
I don't see why the EU shouldn't give every citizen an @europa.eu email address.
How would you resolve the local name part? Do I get to claim xylakant@mail.europa.eu or is there a dispute process? hans.mueller@mail.europa.eu is going to be contentious.
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#149I have no Idea hot to use this thing, the ux is really not that great imho
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#150Every time these alternative/privacy focused/decentralised social media platforms appear they absolutely BUTCHER the UX. I thought "oh cool, let's sign up!"
1. I click "sign up." So far so good.
2. I am redirected to something called "Mastodon." No idea what this is. Nothing about it on the previous page. Is this a bug? Do I trust it? No options to sign up here. Only "get the app" and "find a server." I'm on my PC and don't need an app so I guess I find a server?
3. Now I'm presented with a list of servers. What on EARTH am I meant to do with this? Does each person get their own server? Do my friends all have to sign up on the same server? None of this makes any sense. I just want to post cute pictures of my cats! I'm now three layers deep into some kind of bizarre sign up process. I'm out. This is absurd.
For context, I run a team of developers building cloud services. There is almost ZERO chance that an ordinary person will follow these steps or use this service.
This needs one button to sign up, asking for exactly one piece of data: their email address. After that, they should be automatically redirected to the portal to begin using the service immediately. This clusterfuck was obviously designed by developers without a care in the world for regular users.