[someone_eu]

It is worth mentioning that EU also funds the open source development required to enable translation engine in Mastodon:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19218

"This project was funded through the NGI0 Discovery Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 825322."

I think it is a much better investment in the future of federated social networking, than trying to get control of it by setting up a centralized instance for EU-citizens, as someone else suggests in the comments.

[beardedman]

*helps fund the translation engine in Mastodon.

NLnet might have its roots in the EU, but you shouldn't conflate the two.

[shapefrog]

> with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme

The European Commission is kinda a part of the EU government.

NGI0 Discovery Fund is a 5.6 million euro fund - coordinated by STICHTING NLNET using 7 million euros of EU commission money.

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825322

https://nlnet.nl/discovery/background/

[mk89]

I agree. At least it's something really innovating, rather than the usual rolling out your own youtube/whatsapp/etc. with EU data centers.

I am starting to appreciate Mastodon. It's clearly more difficult than Twitter but I believe that the young generations will learn it quite quickly.