<![CDATA[Good news :)]]>Good news 🙂

The European Commission @EUCommission now lists as first social media channel in their page footer [1] (The Twitter/X logo is now gone ;). And on the EU website you can now filter for Mastodon social media accounts [2].

[1] https://commission.europa.eu/index_en
[2] https://european-union.europa.eu/contact-eu/social-media-channels_en

Link Preview ImageLink Preview Image
]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/4f135098-c832-4835-bb4b-a58373748bb3/good-newsRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 02:05:20 GMTFri, 08 May 2026 11:53:12 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Good news :) on Sat, 09 May 2026 08:42:03 GMT]]>@jwildeboer @JMarkOckerbloom @EUCommission

I also have to add that the Publications office is it's own service, and has their own socials, and they aren't on Mastodon (yet)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://eupolicy.social/ap/users/115922644776520432/statuses/116543725482240157https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://eupolicy.social/ap/users/115922644776520432/statuses/116543725482240157Sat, 09 May 2026 08:42:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Good news :) on Sat, 09 May 2026 08:27:12 GMT]]>@JMarkOckerbloom Ah, https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538536895713786 tells us how to raise such oopsies to get them fixed. @EUCommission

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116543667088646554https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116543667088646554Sat, 09 May 2026 08:27:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Good news :) on Sat, 09 May 2026 06:24:42 GMT]]>@jwildeboer @EUCommission

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/mmedu/statuses/116543185415477861https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/mmedu/statuses/116543185415477861Sat, 09 May 2026 06:24:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Good news :) on Fri, 08 May 2026 20:40:50 GMT]]>@JMarkOckerbloom That page is managed by the Publications Office. The site I linked to is managed by the DG Communication. I guess the changes will be rolled out separately. Maybe someone from @EUCommission can explain the details.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116540889512182476https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116540889512182476Fri, 08 May 2026 20:40:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Good news :) on Fri, 08 May 2026 20:30:10 GMT]]>@jwildeboer @EUCommission I don't know if they're in the process of rolling that change out, or if different parts of the Commission are handling social media differently. The "Follow Us" section of their Publications Office home page still leads with X and doesn't mention Mastodon: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/general-publications/publications. But maybe that will change soon!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JMarkOckerbloom/statuses/116540847614134260https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JMarkOckerbloom/statuses/116540847614134260Fri, 08 May 2026 20:30:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Good news :) on Fri, 08 May 2026 18:25:59 GMT]]>@vonKordke Thanks. Your rant makes it easy for me to wish you a nice day and add you to my blocklist. @73ms @EUCommission

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116540359307469793https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116540359307469793Fri, 08 May 2026 18:25:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Good news :) on Fri, 08 May 2026 18:20:52 GMT]]>@73ms @jwildeboer @EUCommission

there is nothing good about what they did. They are not so stupid to fully remove an X account with almost 2 milion followers.

They just removed one icon. Why? Why not all of the big tech platform icons? Because it's a virtue signaling - hey look, we don't like people with different opinions! Look how nice, diverse and inclusive we are!

And they didn't just remove them. They announced it like it was meaningful change. It's not. That's why it's just virtue signaling. They don't have balls to delete the account.

They project how "good" they are without doing the deed. Children's behavior.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.com.pl/ap/users/116510789323267481/statuses/116540339153942113https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.com.pl/ap/users/116510789323267481/statuses/116540339153942113Fri, 08 May 2026 18:20:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Good news :) on Fri, 08 May 2026 17:52:34 GMT]]>@vonKordke pretty weird take, offering channels people can follow to learn about things you want to communicate to them and then making those channels known really does not meet the definition of "virtue signaling" by any stretch of logic for me...

@jwildeboer @EUCommission

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/73ms/statuses/116540227878332862https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/73ms/statuses/116540227878332862Fri, 08 May 2026 17:52:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Good news :) on Fri, 08 May 2026 16:21:31 GMT]]>@jwildeboer @EUCommission wow. Virtue signaling by a government. That's new

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.com.pl/ap/users/116510789323267481/statuses/116539869823837243https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.com.pl/ap/users/116510789323267481/statuses/116539869823837243Fri, 08 May 2026 16:21:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Good news :) on Fri, 08 May 2026 16:08:40 GMT]]>@jwildeboer @EUCommission

Well done. One down, four to go.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hostux.social/users/TheLancashireman/statuses/116539819309359685https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hostux.social/users/TheLancashireman/statuses/116539819309359685Fri, 08 May 2026 16:08:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Good news :) on Fri, 08 May 2026 16:00:19 GMT]]>@jwildeboer Great, well done @EUCommission !

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/abaeyens/statuses/116539786523221951https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/abaeyens/statuses/116539786523221951Fri, 08 May 2026 16:00:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Good news :) on Fri, 08 May 2026 15:39:24 GMT]]>@jwildeboer @EUCommission
Are they saying I've been hanging in a very nice social network since Nov 2022?
Coolio!
Bill

🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://techhub.social/users/OhMrBill/statuses/116539704218785244https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://techhub.social/users/OhMrBill/statuses/116539704218785244Fri, 08 May 2026 15:39:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Good news :) on Fri, 08 May 2026 15:21:53 GMT]]>@jwildeboer that's very nice! Thanks for pointing it out!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/stepech/statuses/116539635371065024https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/stepech/statuses/116539635371065024Fri, 08 May 2026 15:21:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Good news :) on Fri, 08 May 2026 15:20:33 GMT]]>@jwildeboer That's nice @EUCommission

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://troet.cafe/users/energisch_/statuses/116539630147932603https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://troet.cafe/users/energisch_/statuses/116539630147932603Fri, 08 May 2026 15:20:33 GMT