@_elena @EUCommission @sveckert vielleicht ist das hier was für dich/Sie zu berichten über? ☝️ 🇪🇺 ✌️

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This thread might be of interest to you @ElaineActivism

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@_elena @EUCommission Upps... -1 😁

@_elena @EUCommission I never understood why there are algorithms in social media at all. Why don’t I simply see the posts of people I follow in a chronological order. That makes the perfect social media tool

@_elena @EUCommission this post got (when writing this) 865 stars and 694 boosts, which is very nice. I'd also like us to give the commission credit for posting on Mastodon. 👍

If we want to help them further we can provide feedback and ask for this change at the bottom of their page where it says "give us more feedback". If they get ~1000 comments about removing X and adding Mastodon to the footer, I'm sure it'll help the web team get the greenlight to do it. #LeaveX

https://commission.europa.eu

@_elena @EUCommission Same wishes here #UseTor #LeaveX #KeepItFree

@_elena @EUCommission
I could understand if they kept the account just to keep the handle from being misused.
But simply not using it anymore.

This is the reason I still have an account, assuming they haven’t removed it already after years not logging in.

@_elena @EUCommission

It might be more productive to contact your national and EP representatives. Unlike a broadcast social media account, their future depends on listening to voters.

@_elena @EUCommission amen to that

@_elena @EUCommission yeah, very hard to take anybody seriously who features their twitter and assbook accounts. Get off there.

@_elena @EUCommission Yes to the icon, replace the algorithm-based social networks with fediverse. Keep the accounts on those and use them to point the users that are there away from those networks.

@_elena @EUCommission very well said.

@_elena @EUCommission I don’t know anyone who uses X anymore. It is such a toxic platform, I am not sure why you would want to be associated with it. EU, be bold and move on.

@_elena @EUCommission yeah it would be a powerfull message if they say : We do not maintain our X presence follow us on Mastodon, Bluesky, ....

@_elena @EUCommission It's the same thing with @thegreenparty@threads.net where they are also @thegreenparty@mastodonapp.uk on Mastodon but have never posted anything. But want to #RejoinEU so should invest in EU platforms like Mastodon.

@_elena @EUCommission

It’s almost like they’re addicted

@_elena @EUCommission Exactly, would you please be so kind and set the right example?

@_elena @EUCommission yes EU commission, where is the Mastodon button?

@_elena @EUCommission

leaving these "social" networks only to the bad guys would put more people under these misinformation vectors.
I think that public administrations must continiue publishing to the networks in order to have their values available.
This is not the same foer personal accounts of people from these administrations. They should leave these networks, no need to have their words corrupted.

@_elena @EUCommission Mastodon is a celebration of European ingenuity, vitality, innovation and resilience. How many other power blocks in the world have their own free, open, federated social media? I count zero.

@_elena @EUCommission let's get 68.000 boosts to celebrate 68 years of @EUCommission (founded 1957).

@_elena
Great call out, on point! I wonder what does @EUCommission has to say to this?

@_elena @EUCommission

Walk the talk...

@_elena @EUCommission everyone who agrees with Elena's wish should boost. Who knows? Maybe time for a Christmas miracle?

@_elena @EUCommission Excellent point. A lot of institutions around Europe could *at least* have a presence, even if minimal on Mastodon with the icon on their website. Get themselves ready when the stinky ship finally completely sinks.

I mean, what are they waiting for exactly?
What would it take?

@_elena @EUCommission Grandissima!! 🔥🔥🔥

@_elena @EUCommission that would be such an amazing christmas present. I would be smiling through the entire holiday and start the new year full of hope.

(The biggest threat tour democracies and our union are the algorithmic US tech giants keeping our populations in a stranglehold.)

@_elena @EUCommission AI-generated socks for everyone!

@_elena the problem isn't the nationality, and the root cause of the issues aren't even algorithms, the root cause is surveilance capitalism, the lack of regulation of the advertising sector, the huge size of big tech, the lack/war on interoperability they all wage.

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@_elena @EUCommission I add my concern: talking about "people before algorithm" then having your main web page linking American algorithm-based platforms. And yes, I understand the situation about traffic, you might have higher visits in your American social networks but IMHO you should gradually start switching.
Only issue I notice, is that those platforms tend to hide fediverse-related contents.