ah, ecco, mi ero perso l'account di Henna Virkkunen
@europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission
Discussion
Loading...
Post
Yesterday I wrote: "Public institutions are funded by taxpayers' money: their communications serve public interests and should be open to all - without the need of creating social media accounts on proprietary, for-profit closed systems. This is especially salient for European governmental communications: isn’t it absurd that they would require social media accounts owned and run by U.S. based companies?"
Credit goes to @samvie for suggesting I add the bit "funded by taxpayers' money" 🙏
@_elena
since i deleted my instagram account i have been missing out on important news from my city, which is a real shame.
you make some really good arguments, so i might share this with someone that works for the city.
@_elena
since i deleted my instagram account i have been missing out on important news from my city, which is a real shame.
you make some really good arguments, so i might share this with someone that works for the city.
@_elena This is such an important issue! All universities, institutions, citizens & responsible communicators should be using a "communications platform that is accessible to all citizens, without the need for an account; an independent network not subject to [monetisation &] censorship due to opaque algorithms or political bias."
Thanks for this clear explanation!
@_elena @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission Just watched your video and have forwarded the link to a friend
👏👏
@alan thank you Alan!
@_elena Good post 😊 And in addition to RSS, I believe Mastodon is soon adding a subscribe-via-email feature? So that most people can stay up to date with an account without creating one themselves!
@nclm thank you Nicolas and ooooh I had completely missed this. Sounds EPIC!
P.S.: are you attending JDLL this year? Sadly I can't make it and I'm all kinds of sad about it 😢
P.P.S.: please keep me posted about your thing/announcement in case I miss it 😉
@_elena Saw it there so it’s still pretty early I’m guessing: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/38163 😅
P.S. Oh no, too bad you’re missing on the conference! ☹️ Are there maybe any other events you’ll be going to? 😊 Pretty sure I’ll attend, yes!
P.P.S. It’s actually public just as of today!! Have a look here for a first glimpse at it: https://code.vinyl-cache.org/vinyl-cache/project-identity/src/branch/main/vinyl-cache-identity.pdf 😁 (By the way, they’re on Mastodon too now! And thank you again for sharing the original call for entries! I’ll post an announcement soon as well)
@_elena Looks amazing, can't wait to read it!! 💫💫
@_elena And.. Just finished reading it. And what can I say? Thank you for your insights and for sharing them in such an effective and enjoyable tone. Public access to social posts without needing an account is a definitive advantage of the fediverse we need to promote more than ever. And yes, when institutions will start to add the mastodon/pixelfed/... logo along other networks, this will contribute to normalise them and should help attracting more folks here. Hopefully! En avant 💫
@imacrea awww thank you so much for the kind words, I'm delighted to hear you enjoyed my post. Someone volunteered to translate it into French... I'll share the FR version with you once I have it
@_elena @europeanspodcast I don't know if everything will go fine, when european countries will start forcing age verification (that is social control) everywhere.
I don't get the rss part.
I tried with your adress in the Thunderbird rss reader thing, it doesn't seem to work. I added /rss to your adress, still doesn't work.
Does it work with any fediverse adress, or does the account need to have somehow enabled somekind of rss switch?
@MichelPatrice oh that's odd because I follow my Fediverse accounts via RSS feeds (to check if they federate and have a reference... but GoToSocial and Ghost). I wonder if my own Mastodon doesn't work (I couldn't do it either) because it starts with an underscore and it could be a bug?
It also works with hashtags. I just tried it.
Look for a hashtag in the search box. Click on the hashtag in the result list. Copy the link in navigation bar and add .rss.
I am now just waiting to see if I will get this hashtag's publications from the whole fediverse (which would be cool) or from Mastodon only.
@MichelPatrice wow i need to try this!
@_elena @MichelPatrice I think you need to add .rss to it. https://mastodon.world/@ruud.rss
@MichelPatrice @ruud done ✅
When I will get back home tonoght, I will try with some other accounts.
This rss feature would be quite cool.
@MichelPatrice yeah you basically never miss a post by someone...
@europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission
> I look forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions
Well, great article, Elena ! I would love to disseminate a French version.
Did you link with @leavex ? They carry roughly the same message though not ruling out Bluesky.
Thank you for your thoughts about Bluesky, by the way! I am struggling to understand eurosky. Any thoughts on it?
Keep doing what you do.
Also, X/Twitter give you the illusion of being able to take part in a discussion. Unless you have a the blue check mark, no one sees what you write and no one sees the comments you adress an elected official using Twitter.
Imagine a political assembly where only those wearing a paid badge can use the microphone.
Moving public deliberation to Twitter undermines the very foundation of democracy.
@MichelPatrice indeed.
I was on Twitter for 14 YEARS and I had a blue checkmark (I forget when Twitter gave it to me, but it might have been in 2015-2016?). Checkmark or not, my visibility was terrible unless I posted there every day... and even at that, I might have 30 likes/boosts.
I HATE 99.9% OF ALGORITHMS (except chronological that is). They're just so rubbish when you want to engage in real conversations
ah, ecco, mi ero perso l'account di Henna Virkkunen
@europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission
I think I'm gonna ask all the commissioners with a #bluesky account, to *at least* enable #bridgyfed
@quillmatiq
@_elena @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission
Bonfire Dinteg Labs
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes. This is not a production site. There are no backups for now. Data, including profiles may be wiped without notice. No service or other guarantees expressed or implied.
Automatic federation enabled