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Re: EU Voice

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Post by whatwherewhy »

dncornholio wrote: post #238
pelasaco wrote: post #234

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why its not unfounded? Reading his comments, looks like he will focus on having plurality on the moderation team and he will fight the bots and anonymous accounts which are quite noisy and disturbance to the real discussion. Twitter has potential to become the most important communication channel in the World, and I'm sure Musk will be the person leading it to this direction.

Because he has proven his comments don't mean anything. > Twitter has potential to become the most important communication channel in the World Isn't it already?

Is it? It has few 100s of millions of users, most of them in US - it's insignificant anywhere else. Older people don't know what it is, and younger people don't care about it - there's not enough dancing videos on it I guess.

Re: EU Voice

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Post by dncornholio »

whatwherewhy wrote: post #241
dncornholio wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because he has proven his comments don't mean anything. > Twitter has potential to become the most important communication channel in the World Isn't it already?

Is it? It has few 100s of millions of users, most of them in US - it's insignificant anywhere else. Older people don't know what it is, and younger people don't care about it - there's not enough dancing videos on it I guess.

Almost all people in politics use it. It's mostly 1 way traffic, but yes, politicians outside US use Twitter a lot.

Re: EU Voice

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Post by TobTobXX »

preisschild wrote: post #224
seydor wrote: post #69

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

I wonder if Mastodon could work with everyone having their own server bundled with the app. It would then be completely decentralized. AFAIK thats the plan for Matrix too.

Wouldn't you run into the same problems as with IRC too then? ie. you receive no messages while offline.

Re: EU Voice

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Post by whatwherewhy »

dncornholio wrote: post #243
whatwherewhy wrote: post #241

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Is it? It has few 100s of millions of users, most of them in US - it's insignificant anywhere else. Older people don't know what it is, and younger people don't care about it - there's not enough dancing videos on it I guess.

Almost all people in politics use it. It's mostly 1 way traffic, but yes, politicians outside US use Twitter a lot.

Outside the US? Maybe in addition to other media. Definitely not as their primary channel. They would be completely unknown if they did so.

Re: EU Voice

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Post by soco »

peoplefromibiza wrote: post #113
CharlesW wrote: post #100

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> Sorry for pointing out, but such absolutists statements are easily debunked with a single 'black swan'. The parent commenter was making a generalization, like "all birds have wings". The discoverability problem is a legitimate point. If we allow the colloquial English for a moment, it'd be interesting to hear informed opinions on how that can be solved.

> on how that can be solved like everything: marketing campaigns. Right now media are reporting (embedding) statements from EU from private social networks, in the future PR are going to include links to the new platforms and journalists will start to track them instead. Exactly how it happened with Twitter, nobody knew about it months after its launch. Nobody mentioned it as a source for important stuff, especially…

I know Twitter yet still don't know why it should matter. Just another social media platform, they come and go since a while already. If it was useful, another one will jump in its place (see Vine -> TikTok)

Re: EU Voice

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Post by Arathorn »

preisschild wrote: post #224
seydor wrote: post #69

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

I wonder if Mastodon could work with everyone having their own server bundled with the app. It would then be completely decentralized. AFAIK thats the plan for Matrix too.

arewep2pyet.com gives the details for Matrix - we’re making progress :)

Re: EU Voice

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Post by dane-pgp »

throwoutway wrote: post #233
dane-pgp wrote: post #186

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Signal is equally (in)famous for using this lack of federation to then force advertising for its cryptocoin into all of its clients: https://www.osnews.com/story/133275/signal-embeds-shady-cryp...

Did they bundle it or abandon that idea? I don’t see it in the app

It's still mentioned in their docs as the only supported cryptocurrency:

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In...

Re: EU Voice

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Post by Rexxar »

pelasaco wrote: post #211
Rexxar wrote: post #206

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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" ?

Yes I did. Did you?

Yes and I found the budget of the edps (the institution that manage EU voice, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/budget/data/General/2022/en/SEC09....) the split is not made by projects but we have page 30 "800000€" for all "Information technology equipment and services". But you can probably directly ask them more details if you want : https://edps.europa.eu/about/transparency/public-access-docu...

Re: EU Voice

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Post by pelasaco »

Rexxar wrote: post #249
pelasaco wrote: post #211

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Yes I did. Did you?

Yes and I found the budget of the edps (the institution that manage EU voice, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/budget/data/General/2022/en/SEC09.... ) the split is not made by projects but we have page 30 "800000€" for all "Information technology equipment and services". But you can probably directly ask them more details if you want : https://edps.europa.eu/about/transparency/public-access-docu...

Yup, as i stated, the answer are not there in the documents. For sure the maintenance of that service comes from the 850k/year, which is a lot of money for the amount of stuff that they do. thank you!
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