Freeing political communication from Twitter — mirroring EU politicians onto open, decentralized platforms so public speech stays publicly reachable.
A great deal of official political communication still happens on a single commercial platform. That means a private company controls the reach, ranking, and availability of statements made by elected officials — speech that is, by its nature, public business. Citizens who do not want an account there, or who prefer open networks, are effectively cut off from their own representatives’ words.
This quest proposes mirroring EU politicians’ public posts onto open, decentralized platforms — the Fediverse via Mastodon and the AT Protocol via Bluesky. The original stays where it is; a faithful copy appears on networks that no single company controls, so the public record of public communication is no longer locked inside one walled garden.
Open, decentralized platforms are sovereign infrastructure: no single owner can rank, gate, or delete what flows across them. Mirroring official communication onto them makes that communication durable and reachable regardless of any one platform’s policies or fortunes. It is an omni-win — the public gains open access, open networks gain civically valuable content, and officials reach audiences they would otherwise miss.
Dormant. The idea is recorded and the rationale — open platforms as sovereign infrastructure for public speech — is clear, but no build is underway. It waits on the legal groundwork around mirroring and a decision on which feeds to bridge first.