Interesting.
Think this and a few other people are helping me make the decision to set up on Mastodon.
The trend seems to be going that way.
EU Voice
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Re: EU Voice
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 appear…
> 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.
Re: EU Voice
#93This 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
yet.
when I was born nobody knew what star wars was.
Re: EU Voice
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Its an Instance only for EU officials, there aren't many users.
Re: EU Voice
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 appear…
> 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…
> mastodon/puretube.official.eu would've been better
That's what europa.eu is, it's the official domain of the EU, every subdomain of europa.eu is an official website of the EU
> > 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
I just thought to check but funnily enough the exact same video posted on youtube also has 27 view, the EU just has horrific public outreach
Re: EU Voice
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
I live in Brussels and have many friends in the EU bubble. EU employees are not as well paid as you think. The main perk has to do with how they’re taxed which is greatly advantageous and makes their salary look higher than most peers.
Re: EU Voice
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 appear…
> 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…
>the US is going to freak out about foreign influence
The irony of posing this as hysterical considering 99% of this thread is people saying "Good! The EU shouldn't be dependent on foreign influences!!"
Re: EU Voice
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 appear…
As far as can be counted, the user count of just mastodon users, has surpassed six million [1]. > No one uses these platforms. Six million is not no-one. It's relatively few, but absolutely a great number. I'm certain you'll have a hard time finding social networks with these amounts of users, that don't belong to one of the tech monopolies. Or with such numbers where the EU has no account or official presence. [¹] h…
It’s also not just users. Mastodon instances can have plenty of readers who never make an account.
Websites like Twitter often push hard to create an account but the 1:10 rule apply… if there’s 6 million users, there’s probably around 60 million readers.
Re: EU Voice
#99I don't get it. Take the "Tagesschau" [0] for example. Now with all the ordeal around Twitter, they don't bother mentioning that this exists. They could even explain what Mastodon is and what makes it special.
[0] Tagesschau (German for Review of the Day) is a German national and international television news service produced by the editorial staff of ARD-aktuell on behalf of the German public-service television network ARD. (Quoted form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagesschau_(German_TV_programm...)
Re: EU Voice
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
nobody knows this
I knew it. I'm not nobody. Sorry for pointing out, but such absolutists statements are easily debunked with a single 'black swan'.
> 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.