Follow us OFF Facebook image/svg+xml Follow us OFF Facebook 2020-09-29 The homework • Create your presence on the Fediverse!• Get your institution to do it too.Some places to start:• joinmastodon.org• fediverse.party Social media is in a troubled state.Privacy violations, misinformation, hate speech, arbitrary take-downs, addiction, psychological exploitation, inaccountability, data breaches, intransparency, political interference, manipulation, forced consent, monopoly abuse, state surveillance, …… OFF The dilemma The reality The ideal The responsability The first step The Fediverse Gerben Jana Höffner Marcel Kolaja • Avoid having to be where the audience is. ⇒ Replace a platform with a network• Free choice of providers and apps, independent of what other people choose.• Like email, telephone providers, banks, … Public institutions want to reach citizens.• One can hardly avoid using these platforms.• These are not public infrastructure, but they are used as if they are.• You can either reach or respect your citizens. • Can an institution blame the platforms?• If organisation chooses to use Facebook, they compel people to accept Facebook’s ToS — “free consent”?• GDPR suggests joint controllership (see e.g. the Wirtschaftsakademie case in 2018) The obvious • Mastodon also interoperates with non-Mastodon instances.• You can follow & interact across instances of Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, PeerTube…• These all speak ActivityPub, a set of protocols standardised by the W3C. The trailblazers Baden-WürttembergState Ministry(on mastodon.social) Pirate Party MEPs(having their own Mastodon instance) The alternative:decentralised social media Organisations using social media could also be present on a ‘decent’ medium, with the same content and interaction possibilities.• Example role• Legal responsability (GDPR compliance)• Help escape the vicious circle • No more network lock-in — all social media allow federation• People pick their favourite providers & apps (and create new ones)• Organisations can both reach and respect their audience! Example: Mastodon The ecosystem Poster by Artemis Gryllaki, Bohye Woo and Lídia Pereira Decent alternatives for interacting with citizens = Federated + Universe Redecentralize.org Head of Online Communications, State Ministry Baden-Württemberg Member & Vice President of the European Parliament Social media guidelines of B.W. DPA By the way, the same goes for apps: respectableexceptions! Slides made with Inkscape + Sozi. Most images, trademarks, etc. are not mine, but reuse other content freely (CC0 public domain dedication) NGI Policy Summit — 29 September 2020 Jana Höffner Head of Online Communications Member & Vice President ofthe European Parliament Marcel Kolaja
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  1. Welcome
  2. Overview
  3. The obvious
  4. The dilemma
  5. The reality
  6. The responsability
  7. The alternative
  8. The Fediverse
  9. The ideal
  10. The first step
  11. The trailblazers
  12. The homework
  13. Overview