@EUCommission While you're still here, maybe officially closing your accounts on advertising (algorithm) based platforms and putting out the word that there are ActivityPub alternatives?

@EUCommission Any chance you could show some leadership and stop using and effectively promoting US social media? Open source alternatives exist.

@EUCommission as so many people are saying on this thread, no EU institution should have X or other lock-in social media icons on their websites, you should have Mastodon and other Fediverse icons instead. Having icons on your website is endorsing and promoting a platform and saying "if you want news from us you must join these platforms". It is taking people from a neutral space (a website) and actively pushing them into toxic platforms. See petitions listed on http://xodus.online/act

@EUCommission then please also withdraw from X and Meta and actively promote the federated Fediverse in Europe. You have a powerful lever, including influence at the level of individual nation states in the EU.

@EUCommission so when will the institutions, key figures and politicians of the eu leave X?

@EUCommission Let’s add: 1. Technology doesn’t track or trace and is produced fair and regenerative 2. Our data is under EU jurisdiction 3. we banned anti-democratic tech-regimes and stopped paying 200 billion yearly for big tech licences 4. I’m not forced to use AI and we respect and compensate creatives 5. We have public social media, moderated by society. No manipulative or addictive algorithms 6. We have control over money creation with step one: the digital Euro

@EUCommission all I want for Christmas is a European Uni United against fascism

@EUCommission Then please stop the omnibus.

@EUCommission
You don't need a Christmas miracle for that! Just do it, make the right decisions, and ditch the Digital Omnibus!

@EUCommission
I won't add to all the other comments, the idea is clear, and you're the ones in position to make it happen. So just fucking do it?

@EUCommission
But I see those algorithm and data hungry platforms in ur website 🤕
Mastodon or any fediverse app is not there😢

Many would appreciate mastodon there. Consider that as a request please 😀

@EUCommission asking politely for no more addictive algorithms is like asking politely for the tobacco industry to go away. Addiction sells in an unregulated market.

@EUCommission walk your talk

@EUCommission

Thousands of people across the EU are already building exactly this - spaces where people come before algorithms.

You and I are both posting on one right now.

The Commission has shown leadership by joining the people-not-platforms Fediverse. Please consider reflecting that commitment by adding the Mastodon logo to the "Follow Us" section of your public website.

@EUCommission Yes, please! Create the necessary legislation!

@EUCommission A wonderful wish 🎁. And an achievable one: three days to move to the fediverse and leave behind the social media platforms and their addictive algorithms of the past ⏳. Let’s go! 🚀

@EUCommission Do not promote those algorithms by posting on sites that use them, then... Or at least do not make the posts there as your primary social interaction. In the footer of your website, all the "follow us" links are to sites with such addictive algorithms. Why on Earth do you not promote this Mastodon account, which is on a server run by you? It sounds like a nice wish, but your actions are basically a surrender to the addictive algorithms.

@EUCommission Happy holidays to you too - please get off X
and perhaps start your own in the EU fedied server

@EUCommission we too, hence we're asking you, dear Commission, not to weaken our privacy and digital rights at the whim of American AI companies.