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Mastodon

We’re particularly delighted to see the @EUCommission include a call to “strengthen the open source social media space by supporting open and decentralised social media solutions and platforms. The Commission currently runs a #Mastodon instance, which hosts the Commission’s presence and plans to extend the users basis to EU institutions.”

European Commission Jun 3

Thanks for the mention, @Mastodon !
We are happy to be here, and to engage with this wonderful community! 💜 🐘 🇪🇺

jpl99 Jun 3

@EUCommission @Mastodon Then please work harder to protect our intellectual property rights.

Because right now I can't put any open source work online without it being scraped into the AI machine. Open source becomes a meaningless word without copyright protection.

Susan Calvin Jun 3

@jpl99 @EUCommission @Mastodon publish it in the UK? New CMA ruling seems to give you protection

jpl99 Jun 4

@Susan_calvin

While it's a good measure, I don't think it does enough.

We need to sanction AI companies that perpetrate IP theft and we need to prevent them from engaging in economic activity, both in the UK and the EU, until these companies stop breaking the law and compensate for the damage they've done.

@EUCommission @Mastodon

The_Universality Jun 3

@jpl99 @EUCommission @Mastodon
For real, tho.

Today I've blocked all Amazon servers repetitively scraping my gitea instance.
20 minutes since I've set up that rule ant it blocked over 105 requests.

https://www.agendadigitale.eu/sicurezza/privacy/il-destino-dellopen-technology-fund-dopo-i-tagli-di-trump-lue-puo-salvarlo/

@EUCommission Also remember that the US has stopped funding the Open Technology Fund, and Europe could start funding all related projects like Signal, TOR, and F-Droid, used daily by over 2 billion people worldwide. We need not only technological sovereignty, but also encryption, anonymity, and independent app stores.

@Mastodon

Open Technology Fund: il futuro della privacy digitale in pericolo

L'attacco di Trump all'Open Technology Fund minaccia tecnologie per la privacy usate da 2 miliardi di persone. L'Europa può salvarle?

Agenda Digitale

Chuckles Jun 3

@informapirata @EUCommission @Mastodon and the Commission *could* demand that Google allow F-Droid to continue operating. But it appears they've made some kind of dirty deal to allow Google to extend its Google Play Store monopoly.

Lucy Jun 3

@informapirata @EUCommission @Mastodon Nah, obviously the most important thing is to fund and build out slop 🤡

@30p87 I remind you that the software you are using to write this message was ALSO funded by the European Commission

@EUCommission @Mastodon

https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-knifes-privacy-to-feed-the-ai-boom-gdpr-digital-omnibus/

Maya Jun 3

@informapirata @30p87 @EUCommission @Mastodon It'd still be great if the EU weren't prioritizing appealing to AI companies, e.g. by weakening GDPR and IP protections to make it easier for those to hoover up everyone's private data for AI training.

https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2026/digital-omnibus-edpb-and-edps-support-simplification-and-competitiveness-while-raising-key-concerns_en

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/eu-digital-omnibus-datenschutz-eine-umfassende-einordnung-und-kritik/

Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom

Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.

POLITICO

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/databroker-files-targeting-the-eu/

Maya Jun 3

@informapirata @30p87 @EUCommission @Mastodon The GDPR is already too weak or a regulation set, with an abysmal enforcement track record; e.g.:

Yet they want to weaken it even further, for AI companies.

Targeting the EU

Precise locations and revealing movement patterns: the mobile phone location data of millions of people in the EU is up for sale. Collected supposedly only for advertising purposes, this data can also be used for espionage. European data protection is failing – even top EU officials in Brussels are affected. The EU Commission says: „We are concerned.“

netzpolitik.org

@engideer I'm sure you've already taken several steps to improve the European Union's strategies (voting for the best parties and candidates, protesting against the worst measures, participating in consultations, raising awareness among friends, family, colleagues, and party comrades).
Responding to my post, however, won't improve the situation in Europe.

Maya Jun 3

@informapirata Your reply to Lucy has the tone of minimizing EU's AI obsession, hence I chimed in. Sorry if that wasn't the intention.

By the way it's neither respectful nor productive to infantilize people, like you're doing to me now.

@engideer I simply mentioned that the excellent funding from NGI (=EU) could also be used for projects previously funded by the Open Technology Fund. Therefore, both your answer and Lucy's are inappropriate (and neither respectful nor productive), both because they come from Mastodon, a platform heavily funded by the EU, and because they are off-topic.

https://commission.europa.eu/about/departments-and-executive-agencies/digital-services/open-source-strategy-history_en

Pedro J. Hdez Jun 3

@EUCommission @Mastodon ¡Bravo! But I just hope it doesn't take another 25 years.

Open Source Strategy: History

European Commission

The_Universality Jun 3

@EUCommission Would be lovely if you've started a @peertube instance of your own as alternative to your YouTube account.

state Jun 3

Regards to EU Commission:

had this as a reply, its not about going through steps to do this, this HAS to happen.

Get the social media and messaging apps to clean up their mess? Preventing kids from doing something won't stop them doing it, fix the source of the problem instead of prohibition.

Another thing Social media knows which user are childern and 16 years old.

I will say this again:

GET childern to 16 years old OFF social media and messeger apps. <-- this is the big deal.

witchescauldron Jun 3

@EUCommission @Mastodon

it's a lovely community I agree https://hamishcampbell.com/the-eus-tech-sovereignty-plan/

Thomas Lee ✅

Jun 6

@EUCommission @Mastodon
Speaking personally, I greatly value your presence here. Thanks.

Stian Jun 3

I also low key enjoy the phrasing "Europe, the birthplace of Linux". @Mastodon @EUCommission

ARGVMI~1.PIF Jun 3

@Mastodon

Does that mean the Commission plans to exempt open source social media from the upcoming age verification requirements?

The idea of promoting open source social media is laudable and I'm grateful to hear the Commission say it, but it seems antithetical to that goal if one must use a closed-source operating system to access it.

@EbbeSand Jun 3

@Mastodon @EUCommission EU funding for open-source projects is still available...