Here's my first Mastodon post!
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@seindal I think there's more and more people who think like that, given recent geopolitical tensions...
One hopes that based on this we'll see a bigger movement to Mastodon.
The European Commission has been here for quite a few years... But follower numbers have always been limited by limited numbers on Mastodon itself.Be a leader, not a follower.
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 Welcome.
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 start a campaign localised to each country asking politicians of all shades to move into the #fediverse point out that they can add a #mastodon or fediverse channel to their existing content distributer de. Or use @bufferapp or something similar to post to multiple channels. Give them an idiots guide to connecting to their local or preferred server. @Ciarancuffe
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@gelbphoenix @karlos would be cool if the European Parliament created a Mastodon Instance, and offered all MEPs (Members of the Parliament) the ability to create an account on their instance. I know some social media savvy MEPs would appreciate that... It's a good idea you have there!
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 Welcome!
Your big challenge is going to be understanding and then explaining why Mastodon and other fediverse services are a much better way for Europe to free itself from American (and Chinese) platforms than the Eurosky project!
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@hpod16 start a campaign localised to each country asking politicians of all shades to move into the #fediverse point out that they can add a #mastodon or fediverse channel to their existing content distributer de. Or use @bufferapp or something similar to post to multiple channels. Give them an idiots guide to connecting to their local or preferred server. @Ciarancuffe
@hpod16 @Ciarancuffe what has been your experience of “onboarding” onto #mastodon and how could we create a critical mass of politicians of all shades?
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@gelbphoenix @karlos would be cool if the European Parliament created a Mastodon Instance, and offered all MEPs (Members of the Parliament) the ability to create an account on their instance. I know some social media savvy MEPs would appreciate that... It's a good idea you have there!
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 hola, Hannah! Qué alegría verte por aquí!
Pues, para empezar, Mastodon es el Internet libre que ningún billonario tecnofascista puede comprarse y manejar a su antojo, al tratarse de una red federada. -
@hpod16 Welcome!
Your big challenge is going to be understanding and then explaining why Mastodon and other fediverse services are a much better way for Europe to free itself from American (and Chinese) platforms than the Eurosky project!
Thanks for the warm welcome, @tomstoneham!
I'm getting a lot of good tips and resources here
Hoping to be up to speed ASAP and in a position to motivate others to join -
Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 "Do good and talk about it."
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@hpod16 "Do good and talk about it."
@midzer
Imagine I'm preparing a workshop for people who want to understand and join Mastodon.
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@sparfindig
On EU politicians: the first European Commissioner Henna Virkkunen just joined last week.
@HennaVirkkunen
She was set up with an account on the official EC instance, so people know it's really her.
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@midzer
Imagine I'm preparing a workshop for people who want to understand and join Mastodon.
What could you tell people to make Mastodon look like a fun place to be?@hpod16 About the federation aspect: "Life is awesome and full of choices. Choosing an instance for your account is fun, too. We did this for e-mail in the past. You have the freedom, you decide."
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 @ngi Welcome! Please promote the idea of decentralization. Empower communities to have their own instances. There is this analogy with email. For better or worse, because there is always the danger of centralization, even though the underlying technology is decentralized. Just as it happened with email. Government institutions should also decentralize across all administrative units to make this idea clear. It is not enough to support the decentralized gathering of civil society in the Fediverse by funding the technical infrastructure. Software development must also continue to be funded, as has been done for years by the Next Generation Internet initiative.
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?Two attractive things IMO:
"channels" of practical information. My city has Fediverse announcements of power and water outages (planned or emergencies), wastewater disease tracking, other stuff it's just handy to see. More time-sensitive than a webpage, less time-sensitive than emergencies or transit outages (I get those over SMS).
Ideally useful info, not just press releases; and really ideally someplace a citizen can report trouble
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@midzer
Imagine I'm preparing a workshop for people who want to understand and join Mastodon.
What could you tell people to make Mastodon look like a fun place to be?- no advertisement
- less spam
- far less hate
- real people
- there's an "Edit" and even a very helpful "Delete and Regenerate" function for posts
- Mastodon does have a very powerful Search function
, just like Twitter back then
- even if people often say it, it's neither "complicated", nor does it NOT have algorithms: it does, but they're not mandatory, but optional
- supports CW (content Warnung) and ALT-texts for inclusion/accessibility1/2
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- no advertisement
- less spam
- far less hate
- real people
- there's an "Edit" and even a very helpful "Delete and Regenerate" function for posts
- Mastodon does have a very powerful Search function, just like Twitter back then
- even if people often say it, it's neither "complicated", nor does it NOT have algorithms: it does, but they're not mandatory, but optional
- supports CW (content Warnung) and ALT-texts for inclusion/accessibility1/2
- you can FULLY (and fully means fully!) use
even without an app, as opposed to e.g. Instagram
- you can passively participate (read everything, not just a limited preview) even without an account!
- for quotes, you have far more options than on other platforms and you decide, who can quote you (even afterwards)
- you choose your "home", but are still connected with the whole fediverseAnd give imperialists a kick in the ass!
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@hpod16 @Ciarancuffe what has been your experience of “onboarding” onto #mastodon and how could we create a critical mass of politicians of all shades?
@iBallesty @hpod16 Good question. Very difficult to build followers, but I like the space and 'vibe'. I find Bluesky best for feedback, and I also post on Truth Social, just to watch the madness in real time.
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Two attractive things IMO:
"channels" of practical information. My city has Fediverse announcements of power and water outages (planned or emergencies), wastewater disease tracking, other stuff it's just handy to see. More time-sensitive than a webpage, less time-sensitive than emergencies or transit outages (I get those over SMS).
Ideally useful info, not just press releases; and really ideally someplace a citizen can report trouble
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@hpod16"social" is less obviously something for a government to Do, but I bet a government could help translate popular client software into all the national languages, or sponsor "how to host a small instance" the same way there are community classes in gardening or any adult pursuit.
One of my hobbyhorses is that "hosting" is TWO important jobs, the computer side and the human side -- in English it's the same kind of "host" that might run a regular salon, or a friendly bar, etc.
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"social" is less obviously something for a government to Do, but I bet a government could help translate popular client software into all the national languages, or sponsor "how to host a small instance" the same way there are community classes in gardening or any adult pursuit.
One of my hobbyhorses is that "hosting" is TWO important jobs, the computer side and the human side -- in English it's the same kind of "host" that might run a regular salon, or a friendly bar, etc.
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@clew as someone who loves to host (dinner parties, mainly) this point intrigues me...
What does it take to host your own server?
