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[michelpatrice@jasette.facil.services]

@_elena

Also, X/Twitter give you the illusion of being able to take part in a discussion. Unless you have a the blue check mark, no one sees what you write and no one sees the comments you adress an elected official using Twitter.

Imagine a political assembly where only those wearing a paid badge can use the microphone.

Moving public deliberation to Twitter undermines the very foundation of democracy.

[michelpatrice@jasette.facil.services]

@_elena

Keep doing what you do.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@MichelPatrice indeed.

I was on Twitter for 14 YEARS and I had a blue checkmark (I forget when Twitter gave it to me, but it might have been in 2015-2016?). Checkmark or not, my visibility was terrible unless I posted there every day... and even at that, I might have 30 likes/boosts.

I HATE 99.9% OF ALGORITHMS (except chronological that is). They're just so rubbish when you want to engage in real conversations

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@MichelPatrice thanks ️

[fresseng@universites.social]

@_elena

@europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission

> I look forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions

Well, great article, Elena ! I would love to disseminate a French version.

Did you link with @leavex ? They carry roughly the same message though not ruling out Bluesky.

Thank you for your thoughts about Bluesky, by the way! I am struggling to understand eurosky. Any thoughts on it?

#SocialMedia #DigitalSovereignty #BigTech #Fediverse #RSS

[leavex@mastodon.social]

@fresseng the #LeaveX campaign doesn't rule out #Bluesky, but we favor the Fediverse and particularly #Mastodon. See our message:

Concrete European alternatives to X: Mastodon and Open Portability

On January 22, MEPs Alexandra Geese and Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová were contacted per email regarding these proposals. We will publish their responses here if they answer. Dear Alexandra Geese, Dear Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Dear fellow signatories and Members of the European Parliament,

Leave X - Protect Democracy (leavex.eu)

We discussed this with @_elena during #FOSDEM. Specifically, we believe that the Fediverse is the most resilient solution. However, we don't want to exclude the possibility of building *bridges* with the millions of people who have chosen Bluesky. (cc @bjoernsta)

@europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie

[michelpatrice@jasette.facil.services]

@_elena

I don't get the rss part.

I tried with your adress in the Thunderbird rss reader thing, it doesn't seem to work. I added /rss to your adress, still doesn't work.

Does it work with any fediverse adress, or does the account need to have somehow enabled somekind of rss switch?

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@_elena @europeanspodcast I don't know if everything will go fine, when european countries will start forcing age verification (that is social control) everywhere.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@MichelPatrice oh that's odd because I follow my Fediverse accounts via RSS feeds (to check if they federate and have a reference... but GoToSocial and Ghost). I wonder if my own Mastodon doesn't work (I couldn't do it either) because it starts with an underscore and it could be a bug?

[michelpatrice@jasette.facil.services]

@_elena

When I will get back home tonight, I will try with some other accounts.

This rss feature would be quite cool.

[imacrea@mamot.fr]

@_elena Looks amazing, can't wait to read it!!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@imacrea thank you M! It was a real labor of love, it took me a week to write / copy-edit it. HUGE thanks to @samvie for her excellent feedback

I'd be curious to hear what you think after you read it

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@MichelPatrice yeah you basically never miss a post by someone...

[nclm@mastodon.social]

@_elena Good post And in addition to RSS, I believe Mastodon is soon adding a subscribe-via-email feature? So that most people can stay up to date with an account without creating one themselves!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@nclm thank you Nicolas and ooooh I had completely missed this. Sounds EPIC!

P.S.: are you attending JDLL this year? Sadly I can't make it and I'm all kinds of sad about it

P.P.S.: please keep me posted about your thing/announcement in case I miss it

[alan@lighthouse.co.im]

@_elena @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission Just watched your video and have forwarded the link to a friend

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@alan thank you Alan!

[leonieke@squilla.vitaulium.eu]

@_elena Kudos on this post!

[ruud@mastodon.world]

@_elena @MichelPatrice I think you need to add .rss to it. https://mastodon.world/@ruud.rss

[nclm@mastodon.social]

@_elena Saw it there so it’s still pretty early I’m guessing: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/38163

P.S. Oh no, too bad you’re missing on the conference! ️ Are there maybe any other events you’ll be going to? Pretty sure I’ll attend, yes!

P.P.S. It’s actually public just as of today!! Have a look here for a first look at it: https://code.vinyl-cache.org/vinyl-cache/project-identity/src/branch/main/vinyl-cache-identity.pdf (By the way, they’re on Mastodon too now! And thanks again for sharing the original call for entries. I’ll post an announcement soon as well)