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Re: EU Voice

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Post by mk89 »

someone_eu wrote: post #55

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…

I agree. At least it's something really innovating, rather than the usual rolling out your own youtube/whatsapp/etc. with EU data centers.

I am starting to appreciate Mastodon. It's clearly more difficult than Twitter but I believe that the young generations will learn it quite quickly.

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Post by mk89 »

qwertox wrote: post #179
codethief wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uhhh… https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/mastodon-twitter-altern... https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/audio/audio-147719.html

One is an article (which I was aware of) and the other one is a Podcast / radio format contribution. What I meant was raising the discussion in one of the 20:00 live news, where the audience is significantly bigger.

We might see something in the coming week[s]. Probably it will be part of some Böhmermann shows or similar, then it spreads to the masses, if at all.

He is already getting ready for that probably: https://edi.social/@janboehm

:)

Re: EU Voice

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Post by shapefrog »

beardedman wrote: post #137
someone_eu wrote: post #55

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…

*helps fund the translation engine in Mastodon. NLnet might have its roots in the EU, but you shouldn't conflate the two.

> with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme

The European Commission is kinda a part of the EU government.

NGI0 Discovery Fund is a 5.6 million euro fund - coordinated by STICHTING NLNET using 7 million euros of EU commission money.

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825322

https://nlnet.nl/discovery/background/

Re: EU Voice

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Post by talideon »

amadeuspagel wrote: post #51
mqus wrote: post #46

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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.

Because that is an offical EU domain. Email coming from that domain is official EU correspondance. If the EU wanted to run a mail system available to all EU citizens, it would make more sense to register "civitas.eu" or some similar domain and provide it there.

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Post by Rexxar »

pelasaco wrote: post #92
jacooper wrote: post #85

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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…

> Because they don't cost much? If at all? You are probably wrong here, but would be nice if EU was transparent enough to tell us how much it costs. It is a server management, patch management, content management, and etc.. i can imagine that isn't as cheap as you think, done by EU employees that are normally well paid.

EU is always very transparent in general. How many time did you spend to search the answer to this question before saying "would be nice if EU was transparent enough to tell us how much it costs" ?

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Post by byyll »

olivierduval wrote: post #110

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:…

Europe != EU, they are not interchangeable.

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Post by girvo »

woojoo666 wrote: post #190
luciusdomitius wrote: post #145

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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...

Though of course, Jack Dorsey doesn't want to build on an existing protocol (like activitypub) and instead is rolling out his own ( https://atproto.com )

As someone who talks to Simcom and other modems all day, calling it the “AT Protocol” leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Totally unimportant of course!

Re: EU Voice

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Post by [deleted] »

rsynnott wrote: post #198
seydor wrote: post #105

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it s in the budget of some agency supervising the data protection supervisors. This is not where a lot of money is wasted however. If you want to look for EU waste, look into the various agencies travel grants, endless committees and conferences, overhiring and bureaucratic reports that are many times longer than the actual output. I think in these times of fiscal tightening, people shopuld be more aware of the cost…

The EC employs about 32k people, EU institutions as a whole about 60k. That's actually... pretty modest, all things considered. The EU has a population of 450M. Ireland, a country with a population of 5 million, has about 40k civil servants (and 300k people in the wider public service). If you imagine that the EU civil service was paid for on an equal basis per capita, that would imply that, say, Ireland was paying f…

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Re: EU Voice

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Post by pelasaco »

lastdong wrote: post #193
pelasaco wrote: post #92

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> Because they don't cost much? If at all? You are probably wrong here, but would be nice if EU was transparent enough to tell us how much it costs. It is a server management, patch management, content management, and etc.. i can imagine that isn't as cheap as you think, done by EU employees that are normally well paid.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_... It’s public, as it should be. I haven’t search hard enough for this specific project, but if you email the right channel they should provide more details.

Probably you pasted the link without inspect it. I,however, read it and the information of how much such service costs isn't anywhere to find..or could point us out where did you find this information?
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