If you ’re among the throng of Twitter - die hards that are more than a bit arse around about a sure South African billionaire’splans to buy outthe social connection , you might have constellate to its undefendable - origin alternative , Mastodon . As it turns out , the European Union is decently there with you ; the European Data Protection Supervisor ( or EDPS ) announced this week that it would publicly aviate its own Mastodon server , dubbedEU Voice , as a way for European establishment and agencies to verbalize to unconstipated folks .
And if Twitter ’s not your matter ( and honestly , who could blame you ) , the EDPS say that it ’s also testing a YouTube alternative , EU Video , which is base on the open - source political platform , PeerTube .
Together , these political platform are part of what ’s informally bang as the “ fediverse ” ; a collection of free - to - utilise , open author alternatives to the modern social platforms we know and loathe . These admit services likePixelfed(basically the fediverse - Instagram ) , andFunkwhale(the fediverse - Spotify ) , on top of the platforms the EU has already jumped on .
Screenshot: Shoshana Wodinsky (Gizmodo)
Whether the EDPS will make the dip into those platforms is yet to be check , but it would n’t of necessity be a shock . European officials have been brawl with U.S. technical school company forroughly the past decade , and local lawgiver continue to pile scrutiny ’s on these company’sshoddy concealment practicesandcontent easing snafu .
“ With the pilot launch of EU Voice and EU Video , we aim to offer alternative societal media platforms that prioritize soul and their rights to privateness and data protection , ” Wojciech Wiewiórowski , European Data Protection Supervisor noted in a statement .
It all sounds great in theory — after all , Twitter is anad - razz hellscape , and YouTube parent company Google is consistently aprivacy incubus . But in order for something like EU Voice or EU Video to get off the ground , the Commission will need to entice a good chunk of itsmore than one millionfollowers over to the other side . And while Mastodon beginner Eugen Rochko did account an inflow oftens of thousandsof young user in Wake Island of the Elon Musk news , that still leave quite a few stuck in the Twitter vortex .
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