ah, ecco, mi ero perso l'account di Henna Virkkunen

@europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission

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.

@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?

#SocialMedia #DigitalSovereignty #BigTech #Fediverse #RSS

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?

When I will get back home tonight, I will try with some other accounts.

This rss feature would be quite cool.

Saw it there so it’s still pretty early I’m guessing: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p… 😅

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: code.vinyl-cache.org/vinyl-cac… 😁 (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)

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!

#Fediverse #privacy #PublicGood

@ruud
It works! You have to add .rss instead of /rss.

It is set up on my Thunderbird. I will see, Elena, if your next posts do appear in my rss feed.

🙏 Thanks for making the case!

I believe it is also important to learn from and ‘fame’ the 🇳🇱🇩🇪🇫🇷🇪🇺 government organisations and public institutions who are already active on Mastodon/Fediverse 🧐🙌

mastodon.nl/@bartknubben/11614…

RE: mastodon.nl/users/bartknubben/…

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" 🙏

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.

@_elena: mind if I make up a Polish translation and publish it on kontrabanda.net?

@macfranc

i like to contribute - let me show you a futuristic idea about transportation

like to see it?

tell me

Life isn't supposed to be competition. It is supposed to be for living. No matter how much we "compete", prosperity is denied us. You don't win the game of capitalism by playing it.

tldr: eat the rich.

Nice 👍

A question: In Denmark we've had bad experiences with scammers using serial company setups to escape with money. Now there is a register of people who are not allowed to manage or own companies except with full personal liability.

Are there any plans for a similar Europe-wide register?

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@tdr I think we really face that today. When you want to expand, we have to enter 27 different markets and register 27 branches. When you are in USA or China, you need only few branches.

So let's solve this.

so this is our future?

/o\

As a small business owner in the tech sector I have mixed feelings about this.

Making it easier to hire remote workers in different countries would be great. Also making it easier to start a business sounds good on the surface.

However, I suspect these changes are being driven by VC lobbying, and I trust nothing those greedy vultures touch!

Usually "more friendly business environment" is code for "easier for the oligarchs to leech off society".

Don't follow the US example!

"compete", "scale"...

L'acceleration dans le mur, la competition de tous contre tous : la deshumanisation dans les conditions de travail et le moyen de pression qu'est la menace du chômage.

Charlie Chaplin movie, biographer Jeffrey Vance says "Modern Times is perhaps more meaningful now than at any time since its first release. The twentieth-century theme of the film, farsighted for its time—the struggle to eschew alienation and preserve humanity in a modern, mechanized world—profoundly reflects issues facing the twenty-first century (Wikipedia)

Us company cloudflare blocked my request, yet again.

Europe needs European Providers.

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I thought Europe needs a search index and nurses... But hey, let's copy silicon valley and rob public money out to private pockets. Not sure how they will do it in this case, but they will for sure...

I'm afraid this leads to more techbro solutions to problems caused by techbros.

I can't help it, but I do not trust anything digital and large coming from a government that is presented under the premise of making things more convenient and beneficial for the people and economy.

Try a progressive europe-wide tax. Tax land ownership. That would boost the value of the Euro so you don't get inflation when you print Euros to pay for education, training and infrastructure projects. Yes, you can pay for a giant drone-centric military designed by the Ukrainians too...

Oh, you can rewrite the copyright laws that the US wrote for you so that they got all the value from IP.

Also, tax IP. You should not want your own Meta or Palantir. Those things are disasters.

next implement a EU merchant of record service that handles all VAT MOSS requirements for small businesses and doesn't take a 30% cut for doing so.

This would really help!

It would also help to dismantle some of the marketplace and platform monopolies.

Do not forget about Misskey(Waay more mature) and Plemora and Soapbox!

Mastodon is very simple compared to these other software, Misskey is definitely the most feature complete from my personal experience using both mastodon and misskey