Would you like to see more #EU institutions on #Mastodon / the #Fediverse?

[negschaumburg1@hessen.social]

@hpod16 ja die Audience kann unterschiedlich sein aber das muss nicht unbedingt der Fall sein. Und was das Community Management angeht ist das eigentlich auch kein Problem. Du kannst sowohl auf Kommentare von Followern Antworten deren Account nicht gebridged ist als auch auf auf die deren Accounts gebridged sind.

[openrisk@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 a mere presence in the fediverse should be fairly easy if they already post in any of the adtech platforms (the POSSE principle).

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

But the fediverse is not just another channel to push news updates. The opportunity (and challenge) is to actually engage with people, and even better, actively shape the ecosystem. Open and democratic social networks that reach large numbers of people don't exist yet, we need to create them.

[cyb3rrunn3r@cyb3rrunn3r.de]

@hpod16@eupolicy.social Only if they leave "Shitter" at the same time.

[eest9@chaos.social]

@hpod16 But I would like them to update us on policy issues and highlight interesting public consultations. And less feel good information about measures they never take action on or advertisement for unpopular decisions they made as they do now.

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@openrisk
Imo it's not just about EU instutions replying to people, but to create a place (in the comments) for people to have genuine debate. And then you need mods who make sure the scammers/spammers/trolls aren't destroying the convo

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@eest9 what's your favourite policy issue? Can you give an example?

[truls46@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 Yes, but only if they also interact with us. Which means humans are behind the accounts that can answer.

[ticho@mas.to]

@truls46 @hpod16 Exactly this. I want them here to talk *to* us, not just publish prepared statements *at* us.

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

@hpod16 Exactly! Debates with people, digital streetwork and open ears! That's it! So we would know, that there is a line into politics for the future, to improve EU with input from grassroots. @openrisk

[leanderlindahl@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 you know the answer already.

But having VDL, Costa and Kallas make their statemens #fedifirst would be a fantastic win for democratic public discourse.

So that you could be an enlightened and informed citizen of Europe without having to register with and be tracked by Messrs Zuckerberg, Page, Brin and Musk.

@HennaVirkkunen has set an excellent example for them to follow.

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@leanderlindahl
Hahaha, well, I maybe I need this poll to prove a point

[weddige@gruene.social]

@hpod16 I would love to see the European Parliament and more MEPs here.

[leanderlindahl@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 just get me the aforementioned magic trio on here and I'll buy you a cake. I mean you have them down the hall from where you work, should be easy.

A purple cake

[openrisk@mastodon.social]

@hpod16

> to create a place (in the comments) for people to have genuine debate.

Thats a good example of what I meant by "shaping" the ecosystem. Creating spaces for informed debate was never the objective of adtech , so these platforms are not designed to support it. Mastodon suffers somewhat from emulating architecturally the old Twitter, but the beauty of an open source activitypub / fediverse is that it will evolve if people put their minds and energies in the right direction

[leanderlindahl@mastodon.social]

@OutOfSpace @hpod16

[leanderlindahl@mastodon.social]

@weddige @hpod16

[richlv@mastodon.social]

@leanderlindahl @hpod16 @HennaVirkkunen
As far as I know, Henna's account is transmit-only - the replies are not checked at all. Still, better than most others.

[truls46@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 I can absolutely understand that! And I think it would be perfectly OK, if a group of people was sitting behind an account to distribute the workload.

[cthon1c@kolektiva.social]

@hpod16 never thought I’d say this but today I’m a proud three percenter

[leanderlindahl@mastodon.social]

@richlv @hpod16 @HennaVirkkunen you know the saying: beggars can't be choosers.
My main concern is to get a healthy informationsystem in place where I could read what Kallas and VDL say in important statements about policy events such as Greenland and Ukraine.

It's completely scandalous that they exclusively communicate on a rightwing algorithmically biased network owned by a person who does Hitler salutes in public and inflames the masses at far right rallies in the UK and Germany.