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

[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.

[jan@social.dytrych.cloud]

@hpod16 @archos boost pls

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@slothrop @hpod16 The Fediverse in their own instance should be their primary, everything else a fallback

[gins@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@hpod16 @truls46

Your account is the best EU-associated account I've seen on Mastodon.

However, since that bar is low, that doesn't suffice as the compliment you deserve for your good work

Please keep it up, it feels like you're actively listening and that it might actually make a difference to engage in the conversations on your timeline.

[rastal@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 Real people with their own opinions, niche interests, shares, etc are far more interesting and far superior to institutions, public offices, corporations, brands, bots, etc.

This is what Twitter / X did. It started out with real people sharing things they thought interesting, then added charities, corporations / brands, institutions, public offices, ads, bots and AI... It is now slop.

[sjcooke66@mastodon.social]

@verbedr @hpod16 'All of them'. YES!
Being on Fedi is a surer sign of trustworthiness than being with the Algos!

[leanderlindahl@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 @richlv @HennaVirkkunen yes, you're right. I stand corrected. I don't actually know this – it was my deduction from always only seeing them quoted from "the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter" (FT) in various news media when important world events happen.

Something which, as I'm sure won't come as a surprise to you at this point , makes me boil over with frustration. #leaveX #plus1

[sudelsurium@troet.cafe]

@hpod16 Grundsätzlich ja. Vor allem als klares Bekenntnis zu Big-Tech-Alternativen und europäischer digitaler Unabhängigkeit.

Ich würde aber nur folgen, wenn mich die Themen interessierten. Die EU-Institutionen fühlen sich für mich fern und abstrakt an. Ihre SoMe-Kanäle sollten klarer und greifbarer machen, was die EU für jeden Menschen bedeutet. Verlautbarungen von Politiker:innen und Hochglanz-PR fände ich uninteressant.

[zelda@m.ai6yr.org]

@hpod16

I voted other.

We have more than enough representation from North America and Europe. I'd rather see the Fediverse expand into Asia, ideally in communities where English speakers can easily join in.

#Fediverse #EU #Asia