They offered their own hosted instance of fediverse social platforms, for a pilot experiment.
After a successful first year, they were renewed for a second year. 40 "institutionnal account" went on there, which seems a lot until you realize it doesn't mean institutions, any MEP qualify, for exemple.
At the end of the days, 40 is just not that high, so the pilot was not extended and allocated funding into a bigger long term project.
Because it was a fediverse integrated platform, they're offering all 40+ account a way to convert into another hosted instance.
They tried, it didn't catch, figuring out if it was worth doing it long term is what the pilot was for.
Personally I'm of two sides, the idea of them owning their own platform seems nice on the surface, but the whole point of social media account is to be where the users are, and also forcing them to use the same platforms the rest of us do also forces them to be facing the same TOS/rules/moderation. Utimately I think it's better this way.
After a successful first year, they were renewed for a second year. 40 "institutionnal account" went on there, which seems a lot until you realize it doesn't mean institutions, any MEP qualify, for exemple.
At the end of the days, 40 is just not that high, so the pilot was not extended and allocated funding into a bigger long term project.
Because it was a fediverse integrated platform, they're offering all 40+ account a way to convert into another hosted instance.
They tried, it didn't catch, figuring out if it was worth doing it long term is what the pilot was for.
Personally I'm of two sides, the idea of them owning their own platform seems nice on the surface, but the whole point of social media account is to be where the users are, and also forcing them to use the same platforms the rest of us do also forces them to be facing the same TOS/rules/moderation. Utimately I think it's better this way.