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EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story (www.edps.europa.eu)
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Unfortunately, despite our efforts to find a new home for EU Voice and EU Video in other EUIs, we have been unable to secure new ownership to maintain the servers and sustain operations at the high standards that EUIs and our users deserve”.

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[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes. I think (seen in other news) it is a shame to repeatedly see governments, companies and others say things like "We have no choice than to move to the cloud, because their offer and services are irreplaceable" where the cloud is GAFAM. Meanwhile new data centers for Microsoft and Google are build in Europe, which maybe offers new jobs to some, but increases dependency on GAFAM. I found this article a sad story. A voice "successful" pilot but probably "never again" cause "money". But I guess the lobbying is strong in that area too, besides the easy of use of "just using YouTube". Last week I read an interview with a farmer mentioning that he and other farmers talked to high ranked EU politicians which encouraged them to keep protesting for a more sustainable agriculture but "they could not do anything for them". The farmer concluded that the lobbying by companies is very strong :(

[–] poVoq 7 points 6 months ago

I briefly talked with the responsible person at the EDPS during last year's CCC congress, and "money" isn't the real issue.

The EDPS overstepped their mandate when setting up this pilot and due to the typical bureocratic clusterfuck no other organisation wants to take responsibility for the necessary infrastructure.