Richard HullNov 27, 2022
So, the European Union has set up its own Mastodon instance, EU Voice, as an official channel/platform for all its many institutions - what a great initiative https://social.network.europa.eu/about
#TwitterMigration #europe #Diplomacy #Transparency
EU Voice

EU Voice is the official ActivityPub platform of the EU institutions. With EU Video, it is part of an alternative social media pilot proposed and provided by the European Data Protection Supervisor.

Mastodon hosted on social.network.europa.eu
Show threadjpoesenNov 27, 2022

@Richard_Hull It's a lovely initiative - one I hope many more organisations will follow.

I've started keeping track of these 'official' instances here:

https://gitlab.com/mastolist/org-instances

Mastodon Organisational Instance List / Official Mastodon Instances · GitLab

An unofficial list of organisations that have set up a Mastodon instance under their own brand / identity.

GitLab
Show threadTom RafteryNov 27, 2022
@jpoesen @Richard_Hull I'd love to see news agencies do this so their journalists are verified just by being on the server
Show threadRichard HullNov 27, 2022
@TomRaftery @jpoesen There is an instance for journalists, not sure how 'official' https://journa.host/explore
#TwitterMigration
Journa.host

The server for working journalists and news outlets on Mastodon. Home to active & retired journalists, media scholars, and a variety of news and journalism adjacent professionals. #Newstodon

Mastodon hosted on journa.host
Show threadCyber YukiNov 28, 2022

@Richard_Hull @TomRaftery @jpoesen Oof, journa.host - it looked fine in theory but in practice it was largely unmoderated. Mix that with transphobic right wing journalists, and...

the result wasn't pretty. Many instances in here blocked journa host for repeated offenses, hosting a data scrapper, failure to kick transphobes in time, and so on.

I would trust a journalist instance if it put human rights above all.

Show threadRichard Hull
@yuki2501 @TomRaftery @jpoesen Gosh, I didn't realise all that, thank you, good to know #journalism
Nov 28, 2022 at 10:49amWeb