Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.

We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.

Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.

This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!

We just updated the database servers powering mastodon.social:
Before: Intel W-2295 (18 cores), 128 GB RAM, standard SSDs
After: AMD EPYC 7502P (36 cores), 256 GB RAM, Datacenter-grade NVMe

mastodon.online also got new hardware yesterday (from 6 to 24 core, and with a replica now).

This should help with the growth and any future spike in activity!

Thanks @timetinytim for setting all of this up and handling the migration 💪

#mastoadmin