@phillycodehound @hpod16 Seth I just saw this - looks like others are working on similar https://github.com/mephistophelesbits/rssdeck
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@phillycodehound
Thank you! 💜
It’s giving 2010s vibe on this platform and I love it
@hpod16 If you're looking for a cool interface to track things. https://fedideck.app.
@phillycodehound @hpod16 Seth I just saw this - looks like others are working on similar https://github.com/mephistophelesbits/rssdeck
@phillycodehound @iolaire looks cool! Reminds me a lot of what Tweetdeck used to be, which I used religiously back in 2017. Thanks for building this! 💜
@hpod16 It's so much fun!
@hpod16 to what extent is the EU commission interested in "European" services for the purpose of exerting legal or extralegal influence on them? one notable factor about mastodon (more notable than its nationality) is its conformance to a standard set of protocols and open source codebase, which undermines the ability for governments and/or corporations to control it.
you identify that this structure is able to resist US influence, but haven't elaborated on what the EU commission values about mastodon.
i would be very interested to hear more about the goals of the EU commission for social media and to consider how these might align with mastodon. i am a big fan of EU commission projects like NGI Zero and would love to see further government support for open protocols that nonetheless enable instances to exert their own policies—much like the system of international law allows for each polity to maintain its own system while interfacing with others.
i used to work on open source software for the US federal government and would love to see that approach taken up elsewhere.
@hipsterelectron sorry to disappoint, I can't really answer that as I don't speak on behalf of the EU Commission, I'm just here to get inspired.
There's a service to answer citizen's questions called the EDCC, and registered journalists can ask questions to our spokespeople. (almost) every weekday at 12 that gets streamed live, anyone can tune into that. You can find it on the EC audiovisual portal: https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en
@hpod16 welcome to Mastodon!
I hope you'll enjoy being here.
As for your mission, It's my belief that explaining exactly what ActivityPub (and not just Mastodon) actually would be a great first step. ActivityPub is the protocol that every Fediverse service uses to dialogue with other services.
I also believe that @_elena and her (I hope this is the right pronoun Elena, if not just make me know and I'll edit) videos explaining the Fediverse would help a lot
@alex @hpod16 welcome to Mastodon / the fediverse Hannah! It's great to have you here. And thank you for the mention Alex (totally right pronouns, but a reminder I should put them in my bio).
Hannah I made a short video about the Fediverse (the galaxy of social networks that Mastodon is part of) last year and people seemed to really like it: https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
I also wrote a Fediverse started guide: https://blog.elenarossini.com/my-fediverse-starter-guide/
I look forward to interacting with you on here. Have a great day!
@hpod16 I think a program that would provide funding to support some types of organizations setting up their own fedi instances could be a good idea for getting more of them on board. That could get all sorts of local information streams people naturally want to subscribe to over here.
Also, looking at for example the Forkiverse you see how effective that can be in getting people to at least try fedi when there's a natural community around something.
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@ikuturso
> a program that would provide funding to support some types of organizations setting up their own fedi instances
Yes! There is so much low-hanging fruit here. Take newsrooms, for example. They don't necessarily need anything as resource-heavy as a Mastodon server. Most of them already publish RSS, showing them how to use existing tools to also publish an AP feed would make much more quality content followable.
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Stage 2 could be showing them tools for collecting and browsing any replies to posts published by their RSS>AP bot. Tools that allow them to selectively publish comments, a la the newspaper convention of 'letters to the editor'.
Stage 3 could be a consortium of newsrooms sharing a server to create official accounts for their staff, using their employer's domain name. Using Takahē, or other AP software where a single server can host accounts under more than one domain.
@hpod16 We need more press coverage of the fediverse and stuff like "share on fedi" next to "share on Facebook" and the like. It should be normalized for media and business to be on fedi as well.
So from your standpoint you could fight for public press releases of the EU to include links to official fedi accounts for example.
Thank you for asking!
Thanks for the comment, @der_schrank!
I can tell you there are people working on this.
Mastodon was recently included under the "share more" option, but I'll admit it could be even more prominent. It's a first step, more steps to come.
@hpod16 Awesome! Should probably move right to the top of the sharing options. 😅
Maybe it would make sense to migrate to using the term "fediverse" as well. Away from the product Mastodon, because there are also other products available and competing with their commercial counterparts like Friendica (alternative to Facebook), Pixelfed (alternative to Instagram) and Loops (alternative to TikTok).
(Not to mention various smaller projects and forks or alternatives to Mastodon as well)
@der_schrank
you may have to explain to me this difference between Mastodon and fediverse. It's one of these things I don't fully understand yet (be kind, I'm new)
@der_schrank @hpod16 as you're learning about Mastodon and Fediverse, I *highly* suggest checking out some of the resources that @FediTips has released. They're how I learned most of what I know about fedi.
Best of luck!
@riverpunk @der_schrank @hpod16
Hi Hannah, welcome!
About your question, Mastodon is part of a much larger social network called the Fediverse.
I've done an easy-to-understand guide about this at https://fedi.tips/what-is-mastodon-what-is-the-fediverse/
There are also lots more guides on the front page at https://fedi.tips and feel free to ask if you want help with anything specific. I am trying to provide unofficial tech support on here 🙂
