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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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> 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.
The work is almost certainly done under the broader umbrella of the Mixed Multiple Framework Contract for Digital Communication Services and Social Media (DCOMM1)
https://etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-display.html?cftId=...
I have no Idea hot to use this thing, the ux is really not that great imho
You are not supposed to use this website so UX really doesn't apply. This is the Mastodon instance of official EU accounts, not a website where you can sign up. You can follow any of these official EU accounts from other Mastodon instances since Mastodon is federated. Your gateway to Mastodon is the website of the instance where you sign up or one of the many Mastodon client apps. What would likely happen is that you…
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
AFAIK thats the plan for Matrix too.
How does this even work? Do I need to sign up for every different server?
The usernames are more like emails then twitter usernames. They contain the server domain after the normal username like this `@user@example.org`.
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It was unfortunate timing, but Musk made his offer on the 14th of April, this instance was launched on the 25th I admire your faith in it but there's no way in hell two different branches of the Commission were able to coordinate a deployment, ask for the budget, make all the preparations on anything in two weeks I would be shocked if it took them less than 6-8 months to organize it all
The EU are useless bureaucrats that can never and will never organise anything without spending years debating it and billions implementing it. The disguting EU are attacking Musk by deciding to implement this; funding, coordinating, building and launching this in 11 days. Oh and a personal f'you to google as they launched a youtube clone too... I admire people who can hold opposing opinions at the same time, but let…
Interesting point. Which I would agree with you, but I tend to see the EU parliament pretty well aligned with democrats in EU and per consequence with Twitter moderation practices. I agree however with others here that probably in mastodon the radicalization should actually increase. I'm curious (not cheerleading) to see how Musk will tackle the moderation issue.
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/
it is related. It was created after Elon Musk bid[1] was accepted. Which is strange, suggesting that Musk would be bad, supporting the rhetoric that the millionaire owners of twitters would be more democratic than the billionaire Elon Musk. I know that hn is 100% for mastodon. I like it too. I just don't think that what EU is doing is unrelated with Musk and I don't like how EU stands behind this narrative that "befo…
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it is related. It was created after Elon Musk bid[1] was accepted. Which is strange, suggesting that Musk would be bad, supporting the rhetoric that the millionaire owners of twitters would be more democratic than the billionaire Elon Musk. I know that hn is 100% for mastodon. I like it too. I just don't think that what EU is doing is unrelated with Musk and I don't like how EU stands behind this narrative that "befo…
It was unfortunate timing, but Musk made his offer on the 14th of April, this instance was launched on the 25th I admire your faith in it but there's no way in hell two different branches of the Commission were able to coordinate a deployment, ask for the budget, make all the preparations on anything in two weeks I would be shocked if it took them less than 6-8 months to organize it all
https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/elon-must-twitter...
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Or, instead of this kind of teleological framing, that they are entitled to their own values, but are not entitled to enforce them on the rest of the world. P.S.: In a perhaps different sense, it has been decades since modernity ended.
I don't get your point.
Am I mistaken somehow ?
And notably, this was a fairly common view during the height of the modern age (19th century), so much that its incompatibility with societal liberalism was widely ignored, probably because it allowed for paternalistic colonialism, which made the people practicing it very rich...
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> No one uses these platforms. nO oNe UsEs MaDtOdOn 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)
So you're arguing that lots of people use Mastodon? Even on Hacker News no one is talking about it Mastodon: 536 results Facebook: 276071 results Twitter: 371583 results
It has 1 million active users so... yeah, lots of people use Mastodon.