EU projects on #fediverse

1. Because you will reach users who are not present on mainstream corporate social media (such as LinkedIn, (X)Twitter, Facebook,...).

2. You are 'future proof' - the future of social media is open, distributed, federated and independent.

3. You show a dedication to 'EU digital sovereignty'* 

4. Your posts are shown to all your followers, not only those the algorithm (on other social media) decides.

* Europe's ability to act independently in the digital world

1. Our server is dedicated for EU-funded projects only. This means no personal accounts are allowed. It has an indicative domain name @euproject.info. Your project will be visible to other fediverse users as YOURPROJECT@euproject.info.

2. You can find potential partners for your EU projects

3. We check all registrations to make sure they are real persons (members of project teams).

4. Other servers can shut down at any time for various reasons (not enough funds, technical reasons, personal reasons - admin burnout). How do we manage these risks?

• funding: we require paid accounts from the beginning

• technical: we outsource hosting to specialists

• personal: we plan to keep this community limited (EU project only) and have fallback mechanisms in place. But most important: Due to the nature of the fediverse, you can always migrate your accounts (followers at least) to another server!

1. You don't have to deal with server infrastructure and other technicalities like DNS.

2. You can focus on the content.

3. We moderate discussions - this means we block 'nasty'* users, content and servers. We are using community-curated blocklists by default.

4. We curate the members of this community.

5. We will inform our followers about your project ('New projects on our server').

6. We have been in the business of EU-funded projects for more than 15 years, so we know the specifics of the dissemination.

* that don't adhere to server rules

1. Because someone always has to pay (even if you use 'free' social networks). 

If you're already using some other Fediverse service for free, this usually means the admin to that server pays the hosting and other running costs either: a) out of their pocket or b) from donations or c) using some other funding or d) by charging its users. 

There are running costs (server hosting, domain, moderation, administration, legal) and we want to sustain the server and the community long-term.

If you are using 'free' big social networks, you pay with your data (sold to advertisers) and attention (you have to watch ads).

2. Think of the branding of your project. What does the account name e. g.  yourproject@mas.to look like? We think your projectname@euproject.info shows at first glance what is your account about.   

You could. Moreover, we recommend that you set up your own fediverse server with your own TLD (top-level domain). Especially if you have technical and other staff ready to deal with it.
But if you:

• do not want to deal with your own server, moderation and administration, 

• think other domains are not appropriate and representative for your project (e. g. mastodon.social, ...)

we're covering this middle ground.

We are using masto.host services. They are specialised for hosting Mastodon servers. Their servers are  located in EU, France.

Yes, sure.

1. Fediverse is less known and used that big social media.

2. There are less users.

3. You have to put in more effort to get followers and to reach your target group.

4. It's a bit more difficult to use it currently (e. g. following users on different servers is requires 3 clicks instead of 1 click).

1. Governments

   • DE, NL, FR, CH

2. EU Commission

   • EU Commission and other EU institutions

3. Our projects:

   • Train4ESG, VirtualEDU, Byte

+ 10 million other users like journalists, information security specialists and foremost, people. 

We're a small private family company, with 2 persons working in EU projects, education and IT since 2009. 

We have mitigation measures in place, for example: no single point of failure (2 persons have admin access to the server), at least 2 moderators etc.

Business-wise: BICERO Ltd. never had a blocked bank account, no bad reviews, no lawsuits or similar. Our projects even won some 'best practices' awards.  See more about us, projects or references. What do our customers say about us? If this resonates with you, welcome onboard!