@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 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 Delete your X and Meta accounts.

@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 I want the same! social media: yes, but without algorithms.

what can I do to get an initiative in the EU going that tries to control algorithms? In the end, we make the rules, right?

@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

The Christmas wish of our unchosen EU batzen Von der Leyen, Hoekstra eta. this year.

Peace? Erading poverty? Love? Everyone roof over the head? Humanity? Cleaner living environment? Well-being?

Well no. An end to "addicting algorithms".

@EUCommission Stop. Using. Them.

@EUCommission
So much virtue signaling.

All I want for Christmas is the EU-Commission not trying to impose mass surveillance upon every citizen.

@EUCommission Ok, living communication is ok, but software algorithm exists, of course for the good between people.

@EUCommission The tech for fediverse or free people hosted/European hosted spaces exists. Get off the centralized platforms and start seeing the benefits of a free market freed by an ad free town square. You have the tech, power, resources. Can I wish for you to use them for good?

@EUCommission walk your talk

@EUCommission Come on, do something...

@EUCommission Maybe start by not promoting Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, and LinkedIn in your homepage. Then stop promoting YouTube, Flickr, Pinterest, Spotify, Foursquare, Reddit, Threads, Blogger, and Bluesky on your socials page. Probably also bad for privacy to promote Telegram.

@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 correct and no government surveillance. Not in the form of chat control and not in the form of age verification.

@EUCommission
Seriously tho...

X?

Just...why?

@EUCommission

If that's true, pack away your digital omnibus.

@EUCommission then remove your links to hate and lie platforms like X and Facebook

@EUCommission and an end to genocide complicity? I wonder why that isn’t on your list.

@EUCommission you on Twitter and Meta platforms still?

@EUCommission
So why do you want to scan all chats?
#chatcontrol

@EUCommission consider cutting ties with several social media platforms then.

@EUCommission So the point all of these people are trying to make is that we expect YOU to stand up for that. Not santa.
And of course it is a pourly worded advert -I'm not even sure for what-, but you guys really need to stand up for our values a lot more.

@EUCommission The link to your Mastodon profile is missing on your website.

@EUCommission

Talking about sending out mixed messages. This is from your own webpage European Commission.

I think you can and must do better than that.

@EUCommission then please throw as much money as possible at any open source project that is working on the #fediverse or is somehow a part of it like #curl #postgresql #mariadb and all the other ones!

@EUCommission We do wish the same!
Therefore I wish from you: have the courage to leave platforms of fascist US-owners and become *independent* from their propaganda-promoting, elections-manipulating platforms. Build up a strong democratic decentralised presence with the EU parliament and politicians on your instance for the people.
It would be a powerful sign for others to follow!
And please please please add a Mastodon button to your websites, don't hide your democracy part of social media!

@EUCommission is that why you're pursuing the digital omnibus which verifiably weakens consumer protection? Asking for a friend.

@EUCommission

The US and Russia have determined the European Union should be destroyed. Social media driven misinformation destroys truth and as a result, democracy.

Why allow US tech baron owned social media in the European Union?

Ban them immediately and strengthen EU digital laws. Now.

@EUCommission Then act like it.

@EUCommission all of the replies here are gold. Great advice, and generally sincere; itself a feat for a social platform. Will you guys listen though?

@EUCommission
As you're still on X, the logo of which is a sans-serif swastika, I call bullshit.

@EUCommission and no ChatControl please

@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 networks and their addictive algorithms of the past ⏳ Let’s go! 🚀

@EUCommission nah. that's something you don't want. that's what Europeans want.

@EUCommission

Walk the talk... dear EUCommision, walk the talk...

There is a lot of work to be done, in regulation and in awareness. But also in stimulating open source initiatives and innovation. Embrace it!

@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
Yup. As an EU citizen, I'd like on the tab as well:

1) People before business.
2) Stand strong to protect our Values, Freedom and Privacy.
3) Strengthen, not dilute GDPR.
4) Regulate and crack down on surveillance capitalism and targeted advertising.
5) Do not implement mass surveillance in Europe - we are the People, not Suspects.
6) Do not force GenAI LLM crap on us.
7) Do not yield to U.S. Agent Orange and U.S. TechBro attempts to fuck around w/ EU policies and politics, but vigorously stand by and enforce EU law for U.S. actors if they wanna do their business here.
8) With regards to this communication channel, please refrain from bullshitting.

Thank you for your attention. Peace, Justice, and Happy Holidays for everyone.

Stay safe 🎄 ☮️ 🇺🇦

@EUCommission Remove Chat Control and protect our GDPR. I lost faith on you, so I removed your European Union flag from my profile description.

@EUCommission how about the EU investing in public infrastructure as the "digital town square" - the fediverse exists and is OSS. Fund it, run public instances and pay moderators and include healthy usage of it in the school curriculum.

Especially in the wake of discussions about prohibiting SoMe for teenagers. Create meaningful alternatives instead of focusing on what not to do 😉

@EUCommission be careful what you wish for. People might hold you to it.

@EUCommission AND NO
"CHAT CONTROL", NO "PROTECTEU", AND NO NEXT BULLSHIT NAME YOU'LL CALL IT NEXT TIME.

@EUCommission Except that this is what we want but the EU Commission doesn't want. People before algorithms doesn't pair well with chat control. Fairy tales about child trafficking but all we see is the exact opposite. As far as I am aware, I am not in the Epstein files, neither is any average citizen. We are seeing the collapse of the EU, member states are not even united on their policies.

The EU has failed to deliver on its claims after the US has abandoned it. Good luck fighting scary Russia without any US support. You chose the wrong "ally" and the wrong "enemy". We will not see you on the front lines.

@EUCommission

Really?

Then how about linking to your Mastodon account from your home page?

And deleting the pro-AI social media accounts, such as X/Twitter?

I mean, that latter one is an American-based AI platform owned by someone openly hostile to the EU...

@EUCommission If that were true, you'd leave twtr/x, linkedin, instagram, etc., and maintain your online social presence here, on the algorithm-free fediverse.

@EUCommission Yeah please go ahead and stop linking to those in your profiles, and get the govs in EU to do the same

@EUCommission ...then, regulate it and make it happen?

@EUCommission No, we want people before algorithms through open source and decentralization. You want to put a proprietary ai scanning algorithm in everyone's phone. Stop posting that crap. Just because Elon Musk's platform of nazis attacks you, doesn't make you our friend. We hate you both because you are both authoritarian, just in different ways.

@EUCommission really? Then maybe stop posting on Twitter and Facebook.
Also links to mastodon instead of American big tech.

@EUCommission Hey EU Commission! Can you throw some of our tax euros at #Fediverse open source development projects?

Our combined GDP is more than 21 trillion euros. I’m pretty sure @Framasoft @Mastodon @IceCubesApp @ivory @Tusky etcetera could use a small amount of that?

We’ve got the products you want right here. Just support the people building them!!

#eu #tax #opensource #support

@EUCommission ??? #leaveX #leaveMeta

@EUCommission Your hypocrisy hurts my eyeballs.

@EUCommission tell that to all the politicians still happily posting on X (née Twitter)...

@EUCommission Once again I had to double check that this is not a parody account 😒

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

@EUCommission these algorithms should be opened up so that they can be studied and learned from.

By studying them it's much easier to understand whats under and how to make framework around these kinds of algorithms. When fully restricting something, how do u know they just go around and its again the same problem

Other things that you should say people before..:
- chat control
- authoritian ruling
- AI

@EUCommission How about ending Palantir contracts For coherence purposes?

@EUCommission Reading your ProtectEU plan, I think you are not differ from meta, tiktok or others...
https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-presents-protecteu-internal-security-strategy-2025-04-01_en

@EUCommission how about getting off of the techbro platforms then? or is it just empty words again?

@EUCommission Yeah are you going to do anything about it?

@EUCommission Well, a nice xmas present would be an EU Commission which works for the citizens of Europe and Europe and shows having a spine. An EU commission that doesn't work for Big Money, not for the fossil fuels lobby, not for the meat lobby.
Also which accepts that Trump is no longer an ally, but is out to break us.

@EUCommission all I want for Christmas is an EC funding instrument for #openscience like the Dutch @OpenScienceNL

Despite all the points of improvements, it has been a great success that just begs for the EU equivalent

@EUCommission That’s extremely autocratic. What we want is the option to choose.

@EUCommission And NO CHATCONTROL.

@EUCommission Excep0.t for that one platform that exploits musicians, pays them 0.013 cents per stream as referenced in a fun Eurovision song, now plans to replace them with AI slop and donated billions to the fash Americans whose stated goal is to destroy the EU?

I love you, but why are you like this, lol?

https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115757212763776892

@EUCommission well, no surveillance violating my basic rights is on the list too. So is #TaxTheRich, ditching fossil fuels and war-ending support for Ukraine. Who should I mail that list to? Santa or EU?

@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.