Sometimes, people on Facebook don't know the Fediverse exists.

[mycotropic@beige.party]

@szkodnix @hpod16 @lothar

Thanks!

I feel like my suggestion to system that it would make sense to host an instance that includes each incoming class of students automatically, also staff, also faculty would be productive. @Me@faculty.myuniversity.edu right?
Just import the incoming class and, as they register they're bumped into the @History101@course.myuniversity.edu sublist where I'm @faculty and they're @student for @course.

I guess Canvas already does that but it doesn't last while an instance can last past a college career!

[martinaneumayer@mastodon.social]

@lucien The fact that Mastodon/Fediverse differs from fb in terms of interface is a big advantage. Fb's UX was made only for one purpose - to make people even more and more addictive from meta products and their algorithms. Mastodon UX is designed pro-user, it is also very friendly in its simplicity. Moreover people can choose from plenty of different apps, ui's, themes, styles etc. And that's the beauty of Fediverse. They have a freedom of choice.

@hpod16

[ity@estradiol.city]

@hpod16 I can't tell what to think

Is this where all of those that think the EU is any different from the US are coming from

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

@alice @lucien @hpod16 ooh.. We should do that too!

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@hpod16 I imagine some genius is sure that The Solution™ is to federate all of Facebook to fediverse.

Let's find that person and make sure they can never reproduce. It'd be worse than when AOL turned loose all their mouthbreathers on Usenet decades ago.

[sunnythesheep@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 wow, that went viral!

[benny@kirche.social]

@project1enigma @lucien @hpod16 oh, Twitter's web interface was terrible on mobile, too. Mastodon has many clients on F-Droid, so I do not have to use the web interface

[xodus_online@mastodon.social]

@pini @hpod16 @EUCommission it makes no sense to me why X icons are plastered all over EU websites and hardly any Mastodon icons. Glad there is a reply to a post like this the odd time, but it would be hugely more impactful if all EU institutions replaced all X icons on all official websites with Mastodon icons. An icon on a website is marketing for a platform. Why don't you #SwitchTheIcons ?

[elaineactivism@mastodon.ie]

@hpod16 @EUCommission many people use Facebook for the events and groups features, and a great Fediverse alternative is https://mobilizon.org/ @mobilizon . In my community in Cloughjordan Ireland I have got lots of groups into Mobilizon and using it as a community notice board. See http://mobilizon.ie as an example

[project1enigma@chaos.social]

@benny @lucien @hpod16

Yes exactly

[postpunkmusic@musician.social]

@stefan

@MissWarcraft @hpod16

Bsky is also the platform that verified ICE. Hard pass.

[tillvu@mstdn.social]

@hpod16 @EUCommission
Live it! Thanks for standing for the fediverse

[strolfs@nrw.social]

@hpod16 @datenhalde jetzt überlege ich, meinen FB-Account zu reaktivieren um den Post zu liken 😜

[angelicaura@transfem.social]

@hpod16@eupolicy.social

Never thought I'd see eye to eye with the EU commission's social account, but this? They're doing good work here. Or should I say plural 'you' rather

[goteertxuria@derg.social]

@hpod16@eupolicy.social "Simply pick a server" and like that you've lost them. FB people need full instructions, they're used to everything being fully streamlined!

[ljwrites@writeout.ink]

@hpod16 Why do I get the feeling the op with the "EU citizen-only alternative" wish would end up in some wildly white supremacist instance, yaigh.

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@postpunkmusic

This might be a small distinction to some, but personally, I think it's a good thing that they verified the account, so that people know whether to report them for what the organization is doing versus for impersonation.

To me, a much bigger problem is that they are actually hosting that account. Why is that even necessary if Bluesky/Atmosphere is meant to be decentralized?

Either way, agree on the hard pass though.

@MissWarcraft @hpod16

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@stefan @postpunkmusic @MissWarcraft
Well, at least ICE's presence on BS gave us this piece of news: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/ice-becomes-one-of-the-most-blocked-accounts-on-bluesky-after-its-verification/

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@hpod16 Yeah, but not a huge fan of people's blocks being public on Bluesky/ATProto. Not sure if ICE is going to do anything with that list, but I'd rather not be on it.

@postpunkmusic @MissWarcraft

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@stefan @postpunkmusic @MissWarcraft blocks are public??? That's not good practice AT ALL!