@_elena I don’t think it’s worth the effort. Couple of people announced some vaporware launch and press lazily took it as ”Europes answer” to US social media without a second thought about how ridiculous that statement is. Let them build. Spend your energy on something more productive (improving fedi) instead. Press hype will die after couple of minutes of fame.

@0xtero I found out some really disturbing things about this initiative and I don't want to stay silent. I may write a blog post about it, collecting and sharing the evidence... so that if people appreciate what I write, they could point others to it (people looking at the initiative with interest or journalists for example).

And hey I grabbed a domain name that is PERFECT as a short URL / to redirect to my article. Sometimes staying silent on these things is dangerous

@juergen they've been so myopic about the whole thing that they forgot to register some key domain names.

I grabbed one this morning and some of my followers did the same yesterday and told me about it.

This is resistance at work

@_elena I'd say let's wait and see if anyone still remembers this ominous letter platform in a week.

@humanhorseshoes @_elena

I think you've been misinformed. It has not been closed and they have 145k followers:

@EUCommission

@Curia

can't find the parliament a the moment.
It is clear from your post that you don't like the EU institutions, but they are on mastodon.
That's a fact.
have a nice day.

@FrankauLux @_elena @EUCommission @Curia As an EU citizen who speaks English by the way so no categorising me as British or American with a gripe, we should demand more and get more engagement and practical engagement from the European Union. I have voted yes to all eU referendums in my country including the 1992 Maastricht one and what do we get from the EU? "Go home, we think you're British." Not good enough.

@_elena You can grab the domains but will it be worth the energy?
You know who controls most of the French media and how little credibility they have left. I would not base my work on theirs – and I am a journalist (not for French media) living in France.
It's like the question: Do politicians waste energy to fight the so-called "Peace's Board" or do they fight for peace structures like the UN and reforming them?
Do we fight blown up "alternatives" or do we fight *for* our visions?

@NatureMC I'm planning to write a blog post about it - I'm pretty strong at the SEO game and I'd like to write an article with evidence that people can easily find / refer to.

I only grabbed one domain name for 4 Euros... some awesome fedi people have grabbed other TLD in the same spirit.

An article I wrote years ago on my blog exposing a big company still gets lots of hits - a decade later!

I simply can't stay silent on this...

@everton137 @_elena

@_elena This I understand completely, do it!
My comment was more if you plan a big long lasting campaign ...

@_elena I voted yes. But maybe it would be better to put energy into making the fediverse more accessible. Even to my medium tech savy friends, the fact that you have to choose a server is complicated. So either they choose the default one or they don’t join because they don't see the point in all these different servers (lots of people are lazy to read and be interested). Your introduction was really nice but we might need more ‘tutorials’/why? video's or texts.

@_elena https://www.reddit.com/r/japanese/comments/brwidu/why_do_some_japanese_sentences_have_wwwwwww_on/

@_elena @joakimfors wsocial.social is available

@_elena Ok, now I'm intrigued and want to know the details I just hate how this was branded as "European answer" by the press, like it would be official EU project - when it clearly was just attention grab by some limelight hungry random CEO. Luckily it doesn't seem to have had much news value (papers in Sweden didn't pick it up)

@_elena to be very honest, I think you can drive that energy towards something more constructive. Too bad that Fediverse gets only crickets in terms of press attention, but it is what it is. We are growing. Less than others, but who cares? It is about quality, not quantity.

@_elena In the name of @blogg I allergy sent them a open letter telling them how stupid this idea is. An I published it at the same blog. Sense it is the Swedish government authority, Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten, I did write it in Swedish.

@_elena buy domains and put your video. I can chip in!

@0xtero there are allegedly links to the Swedish right (that would explain the requirement of IDs to post). Still researching the claims

@daniel @_elena @blogg

Hi Daniel, could you post a link to your blog article please?