TIL: European Union has it's own mastodon instance
TIL: European Union has it's own mastodon instance
EU Voice is the official ActivityPub platform of the EU institutions. With EU Video, it is part of an alternative social media pilot proposed and provided by the European Data Protection Supervisor.
Lemmy is indirectly funded by the European Commission. I'm not surprised at all to see them engage what they support :) It's consistent with their anti-GAFAM stance.
I find that a bit unsettling, government bodies spying on us is not what I envisioned for the fediverse
They aren't spying on you in this case. That is just media outreach about changes, policies and other stuff. And if fediverse is the future why governments shouldn't be in it. just like majority of politicians are on twitter.
Real spying happens by europol or polish goverment buing pegasus software to spy on opposition (that really happend)