The EU Commission's "Follow us" links no longer include X. The first one is now Mastodon

https://commission.europa.eu/

via https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285

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11 Comments

BallyM@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 123d

Excellent!

I had filed an EU Ombudsman complaint about the European Parliament incessantly pushing X and other US big tech platforms on its website.

pingu@piefed.europe.pub · 22 pts · 123d

Lead by example 👌

cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 123d

Took them long enough, but yay!

HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 123d (3 replies)

Can I follow the Commission on Mastodon via Lemmy?

Novocirab@feddit.org · 9 pts · 123d (1 reply)

Well you can see their account on Lemmy, but it shows as empty: @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

I think you could only see posts if they were made to a Lemmy community.

Also, I think you can't even follow Lemmy accounts on Lemmy, right?

But maybe all this is possible from a Piefed or kbin instance?

pmk@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 122d

It might be empty because your instance doesn't get posts by that account, iirc it starts when someone follows the other account. In other words, if no one on your home instance is already following them, your instance doesn't have their old posts. I might be wrong though.

meldrik@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 123d

You can’t follow users from Lemmy. Only groups aka communities.

Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 123d

Yaaaaaaay! Thats so cool! ☺️☺️

atro_city@fedia.io · 2 pts · 123d (1 reply)

Wow, are you @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu the first government to do this?

copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 123d

Not with respect to having an account. This one is "May 15th, 2024"

Germany's government was "Dec 23, 2022". I don't know about others.

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 2 pts · 123d

🥲