I just visited the website of the European Data Protection Supervisor @EDPS and noticed that they have a @Mastodon icon / link in their social media navigation bar in the upper right side of the screen.

[janvlug@mastodon.social]

@_elena @ainali @govdirectory

Wow indeed a great resource. And based on #WikiData, I like that a lot.

I add on a regular basis Mastodon addresses to WikData resources.

The power of #LinkedData.

[naomi@theforkiverse.com]

@_elena somewhat more trivially, this reminds me I need to add a Forkiverse icon to https://fridaygoodybag.com/ for the benefit of the 3 people who might see the website

[suneauken@mastodon.world]

@_elena @EDPS @Mastodon @EUCommission

Always great news to find important players here. Thank you, EPDS.

[janvlug@mastodon.social]

@_elena @renchap

I think that it would be good to have only social media buttons of public value driven, self hosted platforms at the bottom of all pages (e.g. the Mastodon account), and one button that redirects to a page with bigtech share buttons. This page should also have an explanation why these platforms are not recommended and therefore only accessible via that intermediate page.

#POSSE

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

@_elena wonderful, slow progress, but progress! @EDPS @Mastodon @EUCommission

[ainali@social.coop]

@janvlug Beautiful! Then you are unknowingly helping this project too! @_elena @govdirectory

[hikingdude@mastodon.social]

@_elena
Puh good question, there are quite some:
Administration / Government in levels of regional granularity:
https://www.bayern.de
https://www.oberbayern.de
https://www.bad-toelz.de

Tourism:
https://tourismus.bayern/
https://erlebe.bayern

All of them have SOME sharing icons - none of them in the fediverse.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@hikingdude thank you! Let’s try to change that this year

[hikingdude@mastodon.social]

@_elena would be lovely. How do you approach them? I thougt, simply mailing them might not be so successful?

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@hikingdude I'm thinking of building a splash page with an explanation (the why) plus resources to get started (how)

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@hikingdude you weren't joking about the Big Tech links, wow. Which is too bad because bayern.de has the most accessible website I have ever seen with a top navbar showing "easy language" "sign language" and "read out the page". Like they're making incredible efforts at accessibility but are still stuck on Big Tech platforms, sigh. I will definitely reach out to them

[gilraen79@mastodon.social]

@_elena @EDPS @Mastodon @EUCommission this is so good! I'm so glad to see institutions deciding to push the Fediverse on their websites ️

[hikingdude@mastodon.social]

@_elena yes indeed. Fediverse/Mastodon still has not too much PR - (and/or is often explained too technical in my point of view).

But would be awesome if you reach out to them. We all should do that more often ...

[dploeger@nrw.social]

@_elena @EDPS @Mastodon @EUCommission did @hpod16 make that happen?

[dunklecat@mastodon.dunklecat.dev]

@_elena thank you for your amazing work. Thanks to you I discovered yunohost, and I always enjoy reading one of your pieces!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@dunklecat thank you! 🥰 I’m currently working on my next YunoHost post about maintenance (not the most glamourous topic, but needs to be done)

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@dploeger @_elena @EDPS @Mastodon @EUCommission
Nope ‍️
The European data protection supervisor is a different institution.
I have no news for the Commission yet