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.
This is simply AMAZING!!!
Thank you so much for being here on the #fediverse and for raising awareness about it with your website visitors ❤️
@EUCommission can you please be next? I argued for this in my latest article: blog.elenarossini.com/openness…
#progress #GoodNews #TheFutureIsFederated
Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse
An article making the case that the Fediverse is a fantastic communication platform for public institutions - because of its openness, transparency and reach.Elena Rossini
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Franz Graf
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •A bonus is that you also can see if they already are on the fediverse.
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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.
Franz Graf
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Puh good question, there are quite some:
Administration / Government in levels of regional granularity:
bayern.de
oberbayern.de
bad-toelz.de
Tourism:
tourismus.bayern/
erlebe.bayern
All of them have SOME sharing icons - none of them in the fediverse.
Erlebe.Bayern | Reisemagazin für Freizeit und Urlaub in Bayern
erlebe.bayernElena Rossini ⁂
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in reply to Franz Graf • • •Diogo Constantino
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •fedigov.eu/
FediGov
fedigov.euElena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Franz Graf • • •Franz Graf
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •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 ...
dunklecat
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in reply to dunklecat • • •@dunklecat I've been doing a deep dive into the 7 official European institutions to see how many have fediverse icons in their social media navbars. Not looking good... it may be my next article, le sigh.
A special award goes to the European Central Bank, which has links to all the usual offenders PLUS SoundCloud... but no Fedi profile
dunklecat
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in reply to Renaud Chaput • • •@renchap thank you for the info Renaud.
Few people may be aware of this, but I have been designing/developing websites MY WHOLE LIFE...
I understand that these things need to go through several rounds of approvals but I also personally know how damn easy it is to do something like that, so I hope they will act on it swiftly
Renaud Chaput
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in reply to Renaud Chaput • • •@renchap understood. And trust me, they have all my sympathy.
I just wish they followed the example of the Court of Justice of the European Union. They added TONS of social media icons in their footer... you can see how they're all crowded together and sort of breaking the alignment, but at least they made the effort. Go Curia! 🏆
curia.europa.eu/site/
Court of Justice of the European Union
curiaJan Vlug
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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
Naomi Stringfield
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