Just 2 cents based on experiences:
The shitpost surrounding of pleroma does not encourage the EU.
And based on assumptions:
I doubt that the EU is keen on playing Trump and informing citizens in short messages.
Short notes are one reason for inaccurate information.
@how About peertube livestreaming, it seems to work for digitalcourage –
@chpietsch@digitalcourage.social is the expert there.
So:
Maybe it would be a thing to tell them:
Everything is voluntary, not much means and if they give some money not to the monopolies they get software which would be really beneficial to the EU and these softwares do not go closed source to a huge media publisher.
And about Hubzilla:
It might make sense since it is running on ZOT to showcase the ActivityPub plugin.
Did anyone compare Hubzilla and Friendica?
And my favourite ActivityPub software which I think would be mindblowing to them is