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Re: EU Voice

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Post by scotty79 »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #43
scotty79 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't use Twitter but seen numerous tweets cited in all the other media I consume. Twitter is sort of backbone, fairly useless on it's own, but important for what it enables in wider context. It's not much weirder that people use private Twitter than that people use private google.

I'm not talking about people, I'm talking about government officials. The fact that the British PM will post information, in his official capacity, on Twitter that will not be posted on gov.uk is ridiculous and should be illegal.

I'm sure where he searches the web in offcial capacity he uses Google.

Re: EU Voice

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Post by franga2000 »

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

Earlier 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.

I agree it would be neat to give emails to EU citizens and a "fediverse" account would be a cool addition to that, but that's a completely different situation to the launch discussed here. A government-only ActivityPub server is part of essential G2C communication, not just another nice-to-have service the EU provides.

Re: EU Voice

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Post by arlort »

amadeuspagel wrote: post #57
lrem wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the same reason not every US citizen is entitled to a .gov address?

.gov is intended to signify offical US government websites. .eu domains can be registered by anyone.

.europa.eu is the closest equivalent to .gov

It's the base url used by all EU institutions

Re: EU Voice

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Post by franga2000 »

ancplt wrote: post #26

I think all politicians should be banned from Twitter and replacements. Ultimately, it is just self-promotion and lying. For international relations, a counterargument might be made: Perhaps the preposterous "little rocket man" exchange between Trump and Kim Jong-un that resulted in a meeting actually brought the countries together. But domestically I think the influence is harmful.

I wouldn't go that far, but I'd seriously punish any use of official "position" accounts for self-promotion or political fighting. Social media accounts like @POTUS or official government websites should never be used for the incumbent's own political agenda. Want to tweet to announce a new law you just passed? Cool. Want to respond to criticism, bark a journalists or fight with opponents? Fuck off to your own account!

Re: EU Voice

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Post by rambambram »

emaro wrote: post #28

This is great, it shows one of the strengths of the Fediverse. Official bodies can participate in social media without being dependent on a foreign, for-profit company. And you can read updates with a lot of different applications, be it Mastodon, Pleroma or the RSS reader of your choice.

I was able to read a feed by following https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission for example. So the @user is mandatory to reach a feed. You probably know this already, but for who doesn't and wants to follow updates by RSS.

Re: EU Voice

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Post by capableweb »

arlort wrote: post #63
amadeuspagel wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.gov is intended to signify offical US government websites. .eu domains can be registered by anyone.

.europa.eu is the closest equivalent to .gov It's the base url used by all EU institutions

europa.eu is a domain, .eu is the TLD. There is no TLD equivalent of .gov for Europe.

European agencies use bunch of different domains, not all of them are a subdomain under europa.eu, although many of them are under that one.

You can see some examples of organizations/agencies that are not here: https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/ins...

Re: EU Voice

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Post by Ecstatify »

arlort wrote: post #64

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 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.

Re: EU Voice

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Post by seydor »

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

Re: EU Voice

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Post by seydor »

emaro wrote: post #28

This is great, it shows one of the strengths of the Fediverse. Official bodies can participate in social media without being dependent on a foreign, for-profit company. And you can read updates with a lot of different applications, be it Mastodon, Pleroma or the RSS reader of your choice.

nobody knows this
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