@kichae It's not me not talking and not promoting the instances I use.

It seems Ursula von der Leyen prefers W Social over Mastodon. I want to know why? Because she could have already used the EU Commission instance she is working for.

And why is W Social so important for her that it's announced during G7? She is a representative and her words have a lot of power.

I assume she has done her research on alternatives before dropping things on important meetings. Why was Mastodon not an option?

@kichae No why should I start another instance when they already have one. For whom?

I just want the EU Commission to use it and talk about it https://ec.social-network.europa.eu

But Ursula von der Leyen is not active there. Don't know if she even tried and why not?

In Germany we already have:

For federal authorities https://social.bund.de

For the state I'm living https://nrw.social

Instances for cities e.g. https://bonn.social

VIP accounts with relevance https://netzbegruenung.de/blog/das-ende-der-dominanz-microblogging-wandel-in-deutschland-in-zahlen/

@kichae We shouldn't push into a specific region. The internet is global and so is the Fediverse. Services are not evil because they are from a specific country.

But the whole world would be to much for one instance. Even more if we want to promote the other use cases like video, shorts, photos, podcasts, events, blogs, sport tracks, books and so on too.

The EU should help setting up instances as public infrastructure and start promoting the ones they already have, instead of lobby marketing.

@_elena OK, we should send some letters and organise some public "demonstration" to show that we already have a much better alternative in place.

Otherwise she and the other politicians will never know that the Fediverse is already relevant and is much more democratic and digitally independent than Bluesky/W Social could ever be.

Or maybe they already know and it's all due to lobby, but than it would be even more important.