@xinit I know I know. To be honest, I didn’t notice that part when I first read the comment, and slightly cringing about the phrasing now. When you handle thousands of comments per day your brain gets a bit muddled. So I kind of hope people stop noticing.

@xinit gosh I hope that’s not what they meant.
Maybe the social media manager was just a bit too excited about mastodon and looking for a way to promote it.

@darkoneko the social media manager in question may have read over that part….

Which EU institution is responsible for interpreting EU law and ensuring that EU member states follow it?
#EPSOprep

@realcaseyrollins @lucien oh dang, there goes my excuse to ignore DMs! But thanks for telling me!

@MissWarcraft
I see what you mean. I think. Actually, wait, what do you mean you are locked into a server? If I follow you, I see your posts, regardless of what server I am on, no?
PS: For the Horde!

@realcaseyrollins @lucien,
Well, in my view, DMs would land in an inbox, and create a continuous back and forth between two people.
If I stopped answered to your DMs, you would notice next time you opened your inbox.
Private mentions happen in threads under posts. When I stop answering there, you probably wouldn't notice.
I phrase it like this, because as a girl on the internet... I CAN get creeps in my DMs. So maybe I like that things are a bit more... decentralised here. Makes sense?

@lucien @realcaseyrollins
Yeah, I have to say the "private mentions" are interesting. I like that I can take a discussion from public to private within the same thread.

I like the private mentions, but they aren't DMs.
And maybe it's ok not to have DMs for now?

@MissWarcraft I would say there are many reasons.
I also think that Mastodon just doesn't have a large marketing budget, that would be useful to get people on board.
That, and I think the initial step of choosing a server can be offputting

@realcaseyrollins @lucien
for me, it took some time to get used to the federated nature.
For example, if I am on my EUPolicy server and I open a link to a mastodon.social profile, I won't be logged into my EUPolicy account and can't directly interact. I have to find them in my search bar. It's not a huge thing, but it lead to some hang-ups.
I was shameless enough to admit I was struggling with this, and people in the comments just walked me through the process. Good community here.

@szkodnix any opportunity to promote Fedi
(Although on second reading I admit that could have been better phrased, they are asking for an EU-only platform and Fedi is global...)

@AnachronistJohn @haubles @jztusk @hannah @lucien
Are we just tagging other Hannahs now?

@lucien also, you have to bear in mind that when we reply to public comments, it isn't just for the benefit of the one person who commented, but for anyone else who may be lurking in the comments sections.
And: usually you have to hear about a new product a number of times before you try it out. So, many baby steps, one big goal.

@jztusk @lucien
I think Hannahs like Hannah Aubry (@haubles) are key to bringing the most important aspect of the Fediverse front and centre: the community vibes.

@moftasa
Yeah, what the Commission answered here isn't quite what they asked.
But with a generous reading, still an opportunity to promote the Fediverse.

@lucien
I know, I know...
When I first started (a week ago), I struggled with understanding the federated nature.
But I just put out a post to ask questions, and people explained things to me, and I was amazed with the awesome community out here!

Sometimes, people on Facebook don't know the Fediverse exists.
The European Commission likes to tell them.

Indeed - what is #EPSO?
It stands for European Personnel Selection Office, and it's the service that handles the competitions for new aspiring staff.
Essentially, if you want to become a civil servant at the EU, you have to pass one of their exams, we just call them EPSOs.
There used to be one for "generalists" every year, but it's been a while.
More info here: https://eu-careers.europa.eu/en/graduates-administrators-ad5

Looking for the EU nerds out here!
Have you heard that the first generalist concours in many years launches this week? #EPSO I'm getting geared up to start studying, and want to share little fun facts about the EU with #EPSOprep

@BrennpunktUA ugh.