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It’s kinda sad.

The European Commission even has their own Mastodon instance (ec.social-network.europa.eu), but it seems they can’t get any of the Commission employees or Parliament MPs to use it. It only has 10 account and from what I can see, only one “real” active user, Veronica Gaffey the Director-General, for Digital Services (DIGIT), who isn’t even posting on her real account but under the title @EC_DIGIT_director_general

As far as I know none of the EU member countries have their own Mastodon servers and most politicians at least here in Sweden seem to be using either X or (the technically minded “progressives”) Bluesky, while they complain about American Big Tech.

As always with politicians, actions don’t correspond to rhetoric.

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petrescatraian@libranet.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There are a bunch of governmental servers for the countries as well - both France, Germany and the Netherlands have one afaik. But they're in a similar situation - leaders and politicians prefer their accounts hosted on something else.
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- 0xtero@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Ah, thanks I wasn’t aware of those instances. I guess it’s the same old, same old story as always - politicians (in general), even in EU are not really looking to do the “right thing”. They’re looking to do the most populistic thing.
  
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  - Gust@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The politicians go where the people are, not the other way around. It sounds weird but I think a social media platform has to be a good place for folk with low tech literacy to post and chat about cute cat videos before it can ever be politically relevant. I’ve yet to come across a fedi client that I think my mom in her 60s could handle/would find appealing, and I kinda think you need something like that for widespread adoption. If you had a fedi client like that and some incentive to sign up like free lotteries run on the eu server for the first few months to catalyze a critical mass of users, I bet you’d have a fighting chance at breaking away from US social media walled gardens
    
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Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I hear that the only users of twitter in Denmark are: tech bros, journalists and politicians

And politicians wanna be where the journalists are

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- 0xtero@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  There’s actually a project that tracks EU MEP’s and their X activity leavex.eu/politicians/
  
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Smoke@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

As far as I know none of the EU member countries have their own Mastodon servers and most politicians at least here in Sweden seem to be using either X or (the technically minded “progressives”) Bluesky, while they complain about American Big Tech.

Ireland has Mastadon.ie, it’s not official but it is at least a server there.

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