Philip Wittamore
Alice StollmeyerEuropean Commission has updated its follow buttons.
✅ Mastodon and Bluesky are in;
⛔ X, Facebook, YouTube are out.
(Only when you scroll all the way down, FB and YT are still there, but no longer X.)
Kalle Kniivilä@AliceStollmeyer But they still list 453 EU-related X-accounts.
https://european-union.europa.eu/contact-eu/social-media-channels_en
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el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦EU Commission has a duty to inform EU citizens without discrimination.
Unfortunately EU people are still using X, it is not banned.
Eric Redegeld@AliceStollmeyer missing justbsocial.eu the EU alternative for Facebook
Prof Heino Falcke@AliceStollmeyer That’s cool, but when I click to follow on my mobile, I am passed on to their account on their server to follow, but then I need to log in to my account, which is in a different server and that is not possible (or well hidden).
@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote@hfalcke Why is it not possible? It should be a simple matter of putting in your name that has your server attached ex [email protected]
@Pineywoozle i’m sure there’s a trick to do it but in the simple way, I tried to do it I got nowhere. And then you don’t want to spend too much time on this.
@Pineywoozle At least it is not immediately clear what to do. Apparently it works for someone else
@Pineywoozle Apparently it worked for someone else. It may not be entirely obvious how to do it properly 🤔
Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸@hfalcke Works for me. It's a two-step process, when you click "Follow" (or "Følg" in Norwegian), you get to input the name of the instance (where your mastodon account is). This is automatically filled in for me, probably since I've done similar before. Hitting a "Go" button brings you to your account, with e.g. the profile of the European Commission displayed, where you may hit "Follow" to actually have the follow action completed.
@Pineywoozle
@Pineywoozle
certified not computer toucher aetios @hfalcke @AliceStollmeyer Typically when you click 'follow' without being logged in, it prompts you to enter your full handle and then sends you to your own instance to complete the follow request. is that not what's happening here?
@aetios @AliceStollmeyer I was pointed to their profile on their server and then I clicked follow and then I had to login and it was the wrong server. Maybe I was too dumb, but I guess I may not be a sole exception
siquis@hfalcke I had the same issue, it was fine when I followed them through the original post: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285
Hannah Grace (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Excited to announce that the @[email protected] has updated it's follow buttons on the website footer! What's that first platform there? Could that be #Mastodon? And where did the link to #X go? All the posts and comments here on Mastodon calling for this, trust me we read them! #SocialMedia #EU #EuropeanCommission #FollowUs
Luca AlloattiThanks for spreading the voice!
That's a small but significant step in the right direction.
PS: this is the original announcement:
https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285
Hannah Grace (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Excited to announce that the @[email protected] has updated it's follow buttons on the website footer! What's that first platform there? Could that be #Mastodon? And where did the link to #X go? All the posts and comments here on Mastodon calling for this, trust me we read them! #SocialMedia #EU #EuropeanCommission #FollowUs
Jakub Klawiter 
@wariat Read my last sentence 😊
Cavallo Pazzo@AliceStollmeyer But on their personal page it's still there and their "x" profiles are still exists. So this is just another scam, feeding, cheating, etc. Disgusting!
averageGuy101@AliceStollmeyer bluesky is just a mirror of X. As a European (and American) it's disappointing for me to see the EU commission choosing sides of the US puppet show.
It's like positrons and negatrons. It's a similar thing. People are tired of it.
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