What's to stop Musk, who's already tried meddling with German elections, from seizing Zelenskyy's, or any other European leader's X account, and posting something with dire geopolitical consequences? We're way past the point where it's wise for European leaders and institutions to rely on a presence on X—and other US platforms are not a good long-term solution either. More should follow the example of the @EUCommission and provide their updates directly, without middlemen, through the fediverse.
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in reply to The Wellerman Sam • • •@samsonite
Sometimes "quickly" is too late.
Even five minute delay can easily collapse the stock market, for example.
Jeremy Burgess
in reply to Juho Mäntysalo • • •Michael Kohlman
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Indeed. One of the Fediverse's strengths is that, like ec.social-network.europa.eu/ any country or coalition could set up an official and hardened server that assures the public of a trusted source of information dissemination.
The time for this is now.
European Commission on Mastodon
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in reply to Michael Kohlman • • •emmanuel
in reply to Michael Kohlman • • •@NoRomBasic
The European Commision that are the EU politicians who loves to go to a war (read send our childeren to their dead). In name working for peace but looking after minerals under the dead bodys. A corrupt collection of people busy with corruption and taxes everything for the good of big coperations.
A verry trustworthty thing if you loves corruption and war. There are worst things but that are not saints and more a lie than Santa Claus.
Mark Ohe
in reply to Michael Kohlman • • •An idea many would surely welcome,
@AliceStollmeyer
Alice Stollmeyer
in reply to Michael Kohlman • • •@NoRomBasic Back in October 2023 I have advised the European Commission to do & coordinate this. And I have repeated this advice in 2024, January 2025 and February 2025.
They should have done it before the European elections, but the second/best time is yesterday. Momentum is growing. #LetsDoIt
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Christian
in reply to Michael Kohlman • • •@NoRomBasic
The possibility of own server is a strong point.
I'd also think the possibility of website integration of feed should be strongly pointed out. So people not having an account in the fediverse can simply read activities bundled on an institutions website, and if desired browse the profile in full as it can be set to public.
Michael Kohlman
in reply to Christian • • •Technologically this is pretty easy to accomplish. For example, many (if not most) of the Fediverse-compatible server platforms allow for anonymous browsing of posts. So even now there is no real restriction for people that merely wish to read communications. Replicating those feeds onto a more “classic” website server instance is not that complicated from a coding or server admin standpoint.
So the capability to do that is already there.
Strght
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •The new paradigm is quality over quantity.
The trustworthy, not corrupted communication is key.
AI, algorithms, aggressive agents make a quality communication impossible.
The future belongs to the brave ones.
Go for Fediverse.
DO IT NOW.
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Dan k5s
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •copsewood
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •"What's to stop Musk, who's already tried meddling with German elections, from seizing Zelenskyy's, or any other European leader's X account"
If Musk does that, it would only accelerate the currently rapid decline in usage and value of a server he paid $44 billion to gain control over.
elCelio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
in reply to copsewood • • •Musk now controls much more than $44 billion
copsewood
in reply to elCelio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 • • •@elCelio Musk seems to be following a 'chaos capitalism' model similar to Trump's where the gains of a previous venture give leverage in the higher stakes next one, all the while previous stepping stones are destroyed and abandoned along with their debts.
Tesla car sales have collapsed in Europe as no-one wants to buy or be seen in a swasticar.
elCelio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
in reply to copsewood • • •Agree.
Let others deal with the mess they created, why moving on the next target.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Ein Köhler
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •People/Companies should at least post on multiple platforms.
If you are or know a decider on where to post for press statements, please consider posting on mastodon in addition to where you do now.
Not for your sake, but for ours. Early adopters might get some extra love though, so it might be worth for you as well 😛
🦕 Justus ☠️ Tóth 🏁 Römeth
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Axomamma
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •What stops Musk from cancelling Ukraine's ability to use Starlink?
Nothing. I expect that will be announced tomorrow at the latest.
lord pthenq1
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •"¿Qué puede impedir que Musk, que ya ha intentado interferir en las elecciones alemanas, se apodere de la cuenta X de Zelensky o de cualquier otro líder europeo y publique algo con consecuencias geopolíticas nefastas? Ya hemos superado el punto en el que es sensato que los líderes e instituciones europeos dependan de una presencia en X, y otras plataformas estadounidenses tampoco son una buena solución a largo plazo. Más personas deberían seguir el ejemplo de @EUCommission y proporcionar sus actualizaciones directamente, sin intermediarios, a través del fediverso."
@Gargron @EUCommission
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Be_Outside
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Andrew Wedlake
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@adventure_tense It's pretty clear now that X and Facebook have migrated into being tools of right wing propaganda. To be using them (as well as Threads), is to be willing to expose oneself to that toxicity and feel it won't harm one's self.
It will.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •👍💯👍 Anyone with any decency and a lick of sense should delete Xitter and Meta / Facebook .
#X #ElonMuskIsANazi #FacebookIsTrash #MetaIsFacist #ZuckerbergIsAFacist
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iveyline
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Andreas K
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Nothing.
But to be honest, #Musk can also play stupid games with Ukraine's internet.
@EUCommission @briankrebs
Toranpetto
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I never understood why democratic institutions or officials publish statements via a platform which is privately owned and in a foreign country instead of publishing a news release on a server they control.
I recommend to write/talk to our official again and again and remind them. For instance with the question: I saw xy statement from you on X, is it fake or can you confirm ?
Thanks @EUCommission for regaining control
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rexi
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •tpfkaTwitter is not my big fear from the goofy super-villain.
half of Ukraine *was* relying on the Musk monopoly #Starlink for a while, lets hope they found back-up systems.
Daniel
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Bloodaxe
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Truth is, it doesn't matter who's at the helm. Whoever sits at the top are ultimately colored by their world view, and as long as power is centralized like X it will be manipulated.
We need decentralization. We need #ActivityPub, #Nostr or #ATProtocol, whatever it takes to move the web away from those centralized solutions.
Not saying these things are perfect, but at least they are better than X.
Kaito
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in reply to Kaito • • •Alexandradal
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Here is a paper by Christine Lemmer-Webber that explains the differences of architecture between ActivityPub and ATProto.
My understanding (as a "normie") is that #Bluesky needs a very powerful central relay to have a God's eye on all others, so that messages (which are duplicated rather than being transmitted) are delivered to their recipient.
Hope this helps!
dustycloud.org/blog/how-decent…
How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Linux Is Best
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •It would be good if Mastodon stop using US provider for hosting.
#Mastodon #Fediverse #ActivityPub
ikuturso
in reply to Linux Is Best • • •Jamie Gaskins
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in reply to Jamie Gaskins • • •Linux Is Best
in reply to ikuturso • • •@ikuturso @jamie mastodon.au/@Linux/11408605716…
Linux Is Best
2025-03-01 07:44:41
ikuturso
in reply to Linux Is Best • • •well, you still didn't say what services you meant but I see after checking that I asked about are what you meant. Here's actually an article on Fastly's site talking about how they provide free hosting: fastly.com/customers/mastodon
I will say this doesn't make what @Gargron pointed out moot since it is still the case that Mastodon is more than just the servers run by Mastodon GmbH and the European Comission probably does not host their instance in the USA. Ofc you didn't claim that.
@jamie
Fastly + Mastodon GmbH
www.fastly.comMelissa BearTrix
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I would think if he did it would be an instant banning of all his companies and hold all funds
Hugz & xXx
Todd Alström
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •The European Commission is on Bluesky too: bsky.app/profile/ec.europa.eu, but hopefully they’ll be able to switch to their own PDS or one based in Europe one day…
#Bluesky #ATProtocol #Europe #EU
Grimpen Mar
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •emmanuel
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Why to stop Musk or anyone in speaking?
Because nobody is skilled to answer him? Realy?
Free speech is the diverence between a freedom or tyrany. Are whe for a tyrany or for freedom?
Humanity know for ages, even since the beginning, misleading speaches. Whe have Sects, Kings, KGB, Mosad, CIA, USAID, NSA and a million other organisations with the most important purpose of misinformation. Freedom survived with al of them. But when speech is forbidden everyone dieds.
mementomori
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I agree, the only problem is that their mostly idiots
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •when will be the time to leave?
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •sonja dolinsek
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •that's going to be the point where world politics will hopefully no longer be played out on social media....
On the other hand: there is an expression in German "don't wake sleeping dogs", meaning: don't give them ideas they have maybe not yet had. @EUCommission
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •#TurnXoff
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