Jose Andrade
Randahl FinkHuge respect for the EU Commission, @EUCommission, who have updated their webpage with a new follow button — X is out, Mastodon is in!
Remember to reward them with a follow! ♥️🇪🇺
Seen here: https://commission.europa.eu/index_en
Siegfried.
MamlenaNice! Also, done with the follow.
Random Sapiens@randahl @EUCommission this is great news
zetabeta
Torben@randahl @EUCommission Done, Sir! Thanks for the hint
David G. Smith
Carlos Solís@EUCommission Wondering when will they also drop LinkedIn?
Ruth O'Day
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES@RuthODay2 @randahl @EUCommission
you scared me. i thought you wrote "Fucking AI"
don't worry, i know what "Fucking A" means
✅
SandraRenardFR@randahl @EUCommission What?! This cheered me up 🫶
ʙᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴛᴛᴇяɪʟʟ@randahl @EUCommission Can that person try to sue them like he did with the advertising boycott?
Gustavo@randahl If someone needs alt text, I'm not a good writer, but that's just a screenshot of the website with an arrow pointing to the new follow button.
@qgustavor Thank you for reminding me. I have updated the post.
Graham Bingham@randahl @EUCommission Feels like big news. Thanks for letting us know.
katzenbergerUmmm... no. That's wishful thinking.
The "Press Corner" page still sticks with the established world order of icons, and the EU commission hasn't stopped at all posting on #X.
In fact, they keep posting much more on X than on the Fediverse / Mastodon.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en?keywords=follow%20us#news-block
gekko3k@katzenberger @randahl @EUCommission
Yeah right. Only one of the mentioned corps isn't controlled by Trump loyal US billionaires.
Unlikely that the EU finds out what's wrong with that.
nilsmielke ⁂
SpaceLifeFormAlready following.
Danie
Danie (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Even the most progressive organisations direct you to #BigTech socials (X, Meta, TikTok etc.) to share their calls and web pages. So @[email protected] wrote an example email text you can use to give feedback to organisations (for-profit, governmental, NGO, grass roots) ... and it works!! Here you find the example text: EN https://we.riseup.net/danie1/example-letter-fediverse NL https://bammerlaan.nl/posts/Voorbeeldbrief-Fediverse It is little effort and my experience until now: 100% positive reactions " ... we totally agree, we will discuss this with our social media/IT colleague" The example email text was first shared here: https://mastodon.nl/@bammerlaan/116445294202001529
@randahl @EUCommission Hi, when sharing your post on Telegram, the beginning of the Mastodon post is too long, and the punchline is cut in half at "X is out--" , the real message "Mastodon is in" is only visible after clicking the link.
Andra LexThough the step is commendable, I will not follow the EU to support this one step.
@iveyline@randahl @EUCommission Thanks for that. Now following
Felix Denbratt@randahl @EUCommission great news! Now I'm hoping that also Swedish politicians will start to follow #svpol #eupol
Frank Heijkamp
Roth Child@randahl @EUCommission Simultaneously so right and yet so wrong: https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/
A Wild Mimic Appears!@thechildofroth Just wanted to say that; if the commission would stop trying to make the internet a worse place, that'd be great.
iwein@randahl we shouted, they listened. Democracy in a nutshell 🥳
tasket@randahl These "Share on Mastodon" sightings always interest me because they're so rare.
They're always broken, which I think is why they're rare.
Anyone who clicks on that link will end up at the wrong place. The 'ec.socialnetwork.europa.eu' web server won't recognize your fedi login, and if you use a native fedi app, there's no way for that link to take you to it.
Fedi is like email, but didn't copy email's 'mailto:' protocol definition, allowing smooth UX across different sites and apps.
@randahl I know that few people reading this care, because fedi has become a self-selecting demo of IT enthusiasts/experts. But this kind of broken UX matters to most nontechnical users; it drives them away.
Note how this doesn't affect Bluesky or other services that use similar https: links. That's because unlike fedi the address that handles the UI and logins is centralized (i.e. 'bsky.app').
GunChleoc@gunchleoc Sincerely doubt that. It doesn't take nine years to fix something like this, and if it took that long to recognize it as a priority then they don't know what they are doing.
Aria <3 
gunstick@randahl @EUCommission I would love they staffed their account more to be able to reply or at least react to public opinion on fedi.
tuga
Drey@randahl @EUCommission - ♥️🇪🇺 Absolutely
Janet Grootebroeder@randahl @EUCommission The screenshot also shows the one thing the EU values over everything, including human rights and keeping our planet livable for humans: competitiveness!
txtx 🇪🇺I don't recall seeing a post with 1000 stars until this one. Nice!
Robin Bradshaw@randahl @EUCommission Thats the first step towards killing mastodon with age restrictions that can't be implemented
Seth of the Fediverse ⁂
TaaravonOsodurin@randahl @EUCommission / HOOORRAYYYY😋 🏳️🌈 👍 😘 Tchakkaaaa