European Commission
Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay. We are working on a solution to ensure our continued presence on your feeds, taking full advantage of Mastodon's identity portability. And we are even growing the team behind our Mastodon presence, increasing efforts to engage with your comments on our posts. We are fully committed to being a real part of the conversation in the fediverse. Interested in our next steps? Follow us as we take on this new chapter. 122 comments
Cr0ydon
@desperadoduck @vasto How many Mastodon servers can we finance if we stop the EU Parliament from moving between Strasbourg and Brussels? Sorry, could absolutely not resist ๐ 
Markus Werle
@croydon @desperadoduck @vasto How many Mastodon servers can we finance if we stop the @EU_Commission from making shady deals with #Pfizer?
uqlel
@desperadoduck @vasto @croydon man even an oracle free vps can handle mastodon server for few users  
Carl Schwan :kde:
@croydon @EU_Commission They posted about the problem before :/ There was at least a presentation about the struggle of the instance at the Freedom Not Fear conference last year by some of the people involved in this effort.
BUND-SB
@EU_Commission so to which instance will you migrate ? are you setting-up a New one with eu-design and consistance with other eu-channel-domains ? 
Darnell Clayton :verified:
@EU_Commission It seems as if you are migrating from #Mastodon towards another platform. Which #Fediverse option are you consideringโฝ #WordPress with the #ActivityPub plugin enabledโฝ Depending on the host, that would be a less expensive option. 
AskPippa๐จ๐ฆ
@boud Many us don't know who many of the various Mastodon admins are. So... With institutional organizations, social media posts are generally approved by a committee.
Benjamin Balder Bach
@darnell @EU_Commission the update contains an illustration with a heart and a Mastodon logo, so it seems very obvious what the intention is ๐๏ธ Looking forward to seeing the next step here, it's very promising!  
Schmaker
@EU_Commission Second - Fediverse is not Mastodon so I'm looking forward to see you at least on Peertube Third - we are big and we definitely should invest in open tech to replace asshole-owned social networks. And I can imagine Fediverse devs could use a coin or two or helping hand paid by EU 
Michaล "rysiek" Woลบniak ยท ๐บ๐ฆ
@EU_Commission thank you for directly responding to the community's concerns. 
FediThing ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Oooh, interesting option! They could move their existing accounts to a third party server... not as great as their own server obviously, but much better than just deleting the accounts. And it means if they bring the server back at some point they can move the accounts back there. The social graph would be preserved. 
Maxi 9x ๐
@FediThing @rysiek @EU_Commission But not their toots and their discussions! The EU instance needs to be preserved, this is beyond ridiculous! 
marcelcosta
@FediThing @frumble @rysiek @EU_Commission Accounts from institutions like EU Commission should be in at least public servers. It would be hard to understand to expose those to moderation and maintenance from a private and personal administrator. Thatโs precisely the situation with privative social network tools such as X, threads and so on, although in that case at least you can argue that is necessary for the people networkโฆ
Carlos Solรญs
@frumble @rysiek @FediThing @EU_Commission I'm astonished at the fact that most #ActivityPub platforms allow exporting your posts, but practically none allow importing them back.
Nodami
@frumble @FediThing @rysiek @EU_Commission I wonder, which national library is preserving the toots? ๐ค I remember projects to preserve Twitter (Padicat, from National Catalan Library, among others) but I am not aware of a similar project for the fediverse. Do you know @EU_Commission ?
Maxi 9x ๐
@Nodami @FediThing @rysiek Donโt give them ideas, the only reasonable choice is to preserve the current instance! 
Michaล "rysiek" Woลบniak ยท ๐บ๐ฆ
@andresmh EU instances are being shut down on the 18th of May apparently:
Garret :bongoCat:
I live in the United States, and this is cool to see. I hope our government figures out they donโt have to rely on private social media companies if they donโt want to. 
Cafรฉ-Junkie
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raphael
@CafeJunkie bleibt zu hoffen, dass schleswig-holstein sein vorhaben kompetent umsetzt. wenns erstmal einer gut gemacht hatโฆ 
ghose
@EU_Commission we appreciate your work and effort wihh these accounts and channels. I wish you can find a solution Thank you    
FediThing ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
"taking full advantage of Mastodon's identity portability." Guessing they're just going to move their accounts to another Masto server? Maybe they have the budget for running the accounts themselves but not for the server? (But would be weird if so as server costs are pretty minimal?) 
Alb_
So you've really got a team working full-time just on mastodon/fediverse post writing. Then stop hiring since some of them are overload! Your posts are interesting though.
Corinna Balkow
@EU_Commission How does your announcement connect with these articles about EU institutions run by the European Date Protection Supervisor to be shut down in May? 
MeowcaTheoRange
@EU_Commission i love how โWe are working on a solution to ensure our continued presence on your feeds, taking full advantage of Mastodonโs identity portability.โ can also mean โif you block/mute us we will move to somewhere you can see usโ though i donโt know what the intended meaning is in this post 
Klaudia (aka jinxx)
@EU_Commission Thank goodness! And yes, please stay here in the democratic part of social nets! 
Saupreiss #Prรคparat500
Iโm yet to be convinced that your full commitment is a good thing; especially when it comes down to social media. But greetings to Zensursula (โwhat again is a browser?โ).
exiltoaster :breadified:
@EU_Commission Please create channels for all languages of the European Union. Pick up people directly instead of just posting in English.
kฮ
@exiltoaster @EU_Commission I agree! And also as a native English speaker who is only good at basic German I would point out that English is no longer a major language within the EU and French or Spanish should be adopted as the main output when speaking globally. Better yet, Esperanto! Then EU citizens need only learn one other simple language to speak to every other citizen of EU member states. ๐
Franky ๐
Why? Let everyone speak in their own language. #DeepL works perfectly. Here, we integrated this Translator into #SubwayTooter and so we only need to click once to read your toot in our native language. The Translator automatically detects your language. Easy.
exiltoaster :breadified:
@Slufferbeiste I translated your text. And then translate it back into English. works really great. translate post: Here we have this translator in #Subway and so we only have to click once to read your toast into our native language. The translator automatically recognizes your language. Very calmly. 
Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:
@EU_Commission shame the hosting will no longer be owned by the EU, and that conversations and history will be lost in the process glad you still care, at least 
guetto ๐งโ๐ป ๐ช๐บ
No money to pay a cloud instance?  
Veza85UE
@ecotejados @EU_Commission   
radioactivestardust
@EU_Commission You are awesome โก i am very thankful for all the provided information! 
Simon Wood
@EU_Commission Hope that whatever platform software you choose, you have your own instance, setting the lead for other governmentsโ social presence. 
Silmathoron
@boud is there already account portability for threads.net? 
Jey is enjoying this old ๐
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Unai
@EU_Commission this is a good source of EU news for me, thank you for working on keeping it going ๐ซฐ   
maarten brouwers
@xs4me2 @EU_Commission it is good that they will move their account to some other server, but a government body should ideally be run at a government run server, not some third party. What funds are needed to make social.network.europa.eu continue to work? All this talk about independence becomes and then thisโฆ 
Tyrone Slothrop
@EU_Commission This is a heartening promise. I hope that the final setup will be a server run by one of the EU institutions, with accounts for all the different bodies and - why not - staff of the EU organs.
Silmathoron
@EU_Commission I'm glad to hear that! I must say, though, that I'm having a hard time trying to make this announcement consistent with the one from @EDPS : they mentioned an issue keeping the server and service at the "high standards that EUIs and our users deserve" but you talk about moving somewhere else so I'm kind of wondering how a 3rd party could meet these standards...
Thomas (aka Papa Dragon) - Streams
L'expรฉrience des instances Mastodon et Peertube de la des instances europรฉennes est un succรจs, et du coup... les deux vont fermer le 18 mai prochain.
Curieux. 
Etua
@EU_Commission That's nothing else than a clear downgrade. 
lertsenem
@EU_Commission The fact that you'd have to close your dedicated instance is pretty sad though.
KarlE
@EU_Commission instead of staging a technology example, which is known to work in general but have some flaws, wouldn't it be most straightforward to just continue operation of the existing and established servers? 
Olivier Borel
@EU_Commission c'es super cool in en val le coup Vivaldi et formidable et sais du sรฉrieux sais rรฉseaux sociaux aussi vraiment 
Bart Knubben
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Joรฃo Costa ๐๐ป๐บ๐ฆ๐ต๐น๐ฌ๐ง๐ช๐บ
@EU_Commission great to hear, well done and thank you! ๐ช๐บ 
Chris Who
@EU_Commission Yay EU! Nice to have you here. :ablobcatrave:
Jerry ๐ณ๐ฑ ๐ธ๐ช
Could you piss off to Xitter? Your attitude is what many people were trying to avoid here.
Ton Zijlstra
@EU_Commission Hopefully you will do so on one of your own domains. And invite the other EU institutions and agencies to do so too. Having your own domain (rather than using mastodon.social or twitter.com) means we all can be certain that you are who you say you are. Organisations should run their own instances, or use their websites to also share to ActivityPub. My organisation does, my website does. Let the EC lead by example! 
Osma A
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Jeremiah Lee
@EU_Commission Better than identity portability would be finding a way to keep your current server operating for you and all the other official EU accounts using it.
Wouter Tebbens
That's great to hear, that the @EU_Commission is here to stay in the #Fediverse. After the prolongued pilot by the @EDPS 
Chewie
@Wtebbens @EU_Commission @EDPS It would be good it they actually said what they would be doing next.
Lasse Gismo - ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ฉ
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Elena. (she/ her)
@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu You need to keep your own server!! How is this even a problem? People are loosing trust in the EU and this is only one more reason for them. It's outrageous that the EU (!!) is not able to keep its own Fedi server running and maintained.
Scammo
@EU_Commission please contiue your usage of this server. I think it would also be really interesting if you could conside to post simultanously in different language. Thanks! 
Toni Aittoniemi
@EU_Commission Go Europe Go! Commitment to open systems can only be shown. Talk is cheap. ๐ซก  
luki
@EU_Commission There is a lot of work waiting for us humans. But what is considered as work is highly up to us humans. 
Mensch, Marina
@EU_Commission IMHO EU and it's many offices should have their own server(s). Not just instances. It would fulfill the dream of independence & solidarity & open source regarding social media in one move. 
Jan Wildeboer ๐ท:krulorange:
@EU_Commission FTR - an account on threads.net is NOT a solution, IMHO. The better solution is to use a minimal part of the money you spend on blockchain projects to keep the instance you are on alive. ;) 
Sir Toootenstein
@EU_Commission this is absolutely bad. There's so much money wasted every day within the European Parliament. Maintaining a Mastodon server should be peanuts. Damnit! |
Gregory's Server
@EU_Commission You don't seem to have posted the problem before, so what is it that requires a solution?