Swiss Federal government starts pilot test on Mastodon

cross-posted from: https://feddit.ch/post/1019586

Official press release in german (via admin.ch)

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leavemealone@sh.itjust.works · 72 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Elon musk to his lawyers in his X office

-I am going to sue them !

-Sir, please, not again.

laskoune@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y

I read that with the voices of Captain Zapp Brannigan and Lieutenant Kif Kroker

Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz · 56 pts · 2y

Switzerland is based af

Mysteriarch@slrpnk.net · 46 pts · 2y (9 replies)

This won't do, they don't have a pun or funny reference in their URL!

PoTayToes@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Our sense of humour is worse than germans, what did you expect?

Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 2y (3 replies)

And it’s a government institution too. Those aren’t well known for their sense of humor.

ZeroCool@feddit.ch · 21 pts · 2y (1 reply)

If you'd like to requisition a sense of humour you'll have to submit the proper forms in triplicate and wait 90 days while your request is processed.

Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 2y

And the papers needs to in the appropriate letterbox by 2023-09-20T16:00.

RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y

Government institutions are usually the joke themselves. 😎

Samsy@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Hat der Zipfelklatscher gerade gesagt wir wären nicht lustig?

LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Nicht zwingend. Nur unlustiger als die deutschen. Also abhängig vom Standpunkt. Wie lustig findest du die deutschen?

Samsy@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

Kommt drauf an, Künstler oder Bevölkerung, ich vermute du meinst letzteres. Naja kommt auf die Region an. Es heißt nicht umsonst nordisch Kühl.

misterundercoat@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y

admin.ch/eesewithholes

otter@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 2y (10 replies)

Looking forward to Firefox local translations, my French isn't good enough

Edit: Also when they add all extensions, Imgur doesn't load on mobile for me

Alternative frontend: https://rimgo.totaldarkness.net/TOYXqNO

Link: https://social.admin.ch

SSUPII@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Isn't local translation already a thing? I had it for a while already

otter@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

oh are you guys using the extension, I just got it

I think the news article I saw recently was talking about it being built in?

https://9to5linux.com/firefox-118-enters-beta-testing-with-the-built-in-translation-feature-for-websites

SSUPII@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2y

Probably. I installed it then forgot about it, didn't have the need to remember it was an extension anyway.

It becoming built-in is perfect.

kilgore_trout@feddit.it · 1 pts · 2y

You can enable the built-in feature in about:config with browser.translations.enable

Zerush@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y

Imgur is spyware crap, since time I use FileCoffee, way better (host and share image, multimedia, videos, documents, PDF, presentations, text, apps, 100% free, encrypted, private, made in the EU), alternatively you can use Vgy.me (same, but only images, by default it delete the EXIF data, if exist).

leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y

Just to make you aware: Linguist is an add-on that allows you to change its settings to use the Bergamaot offline translator, making it totally private.

pietervdvn@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y (3 replies)

FF local translations is already there in the stable releases. Just update!

otter@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

What version are you on? In particular I was hoping for a built in version on mobile since I can't get the extension like on Desktop

pietervdvn@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Ah, I was talking about desktop. Afaik this is not yet on mobile.

I'm using Fennec BTW

otter@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

Ah understandable, thank you though

elvith@feddit.de · 21 pts · 2y

The German government also has a Mastodon instance: https://social.bund.de

E.g. the German federal government (“Bundesregierung”) toots here: https://social.bund.de/@Bundesregierung

beckerist@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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Damage@feddit.it · 20 pts · 2y

It stands for chwitzerland

ZeroCool@feddit.ch · 5 pts · 2y

Correct.

ApfelstrudelWAKASAGI@feddit.de · 7 pts · 2y

The real question is whether they'll federate with NSFW subs.

Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 2y

Great news!

kaba0@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y

How is it privacy friendly? Not trying to troll of anything, but people literally share all their likes/dislikes plainly with everyone, and deletes don’t have to actually be executed on other servers.

N1cknamed@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 2y
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pescetarian@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I have one and the most important question, why exactly Mastodon? Not Friendica, pleroma or Misskey or something....

HKayn@dormi.zone · 2 pts · 2y

Most likely because out of those, Mastodon is the most well known.