Uh, Mastodon exists?
I’m assuming they want to compete with X/Twitter.
If they built out a Mastodon network with government support, then it would.
I hate X, but good luck with this:
The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be,
They named themselves W but those draconian ID requirements are an L
There is no future in social media unless it’s decentralized. Gonna assume this is dead on arrival.
So a Mastodon ripoff, but its instances hosted by a single entity (effectively centralized): ensuring all instances residing within the European jurisdiction (allowing for full control over it). I don’t see how they genuinely believe, to have humans do the photo validation, when competing at the scale of X; especially when you run all the instances. Perhaps they could recruit volunteers to socialize the losses, as the platform privatizes the profits. Nothing but a privacy-centric approach however: said the privacy expert…
Zeiter emphasized that systemic disinformation is eroding public trust and weakening democratic decision-making … W will be legally the subsidiary of “We Don’t Have Time,” a media platform for climate action … A group of 54 members of the European Parliament [primarily Greens/EFA, Renew, The Left] called for European alternatives
If that doesn’t sound like a recipe, for swinging the pendulum to the other extreme (once more), I don’t know what does… Because can you imagine, a modern social media platform, not being a political echo chamber: not promoting extremism by use of filter bubbles, and instead allowing for deescalation through counter argumentation. One would almost start to think, for it all to be intentional: as a deeply divided population will never stand united, against their common oppressor.
Should’ve named it Y or Z. You know, like +1…
Looks like W is being built on ATProto.
I genuinely thought this was an Onion post.
Y’all will enjoy this: https://w-social.eu/
Should just have said it stands for Wordfeud, which would be commical.
We are?
Hold my hand and let’s say yes together.
Should’ve called it Z. Is just as good as X. In fact, is two better.
We make platform now. Users come next week*.
only Ws in the chat, guys 😎
Checkmate, Elon Musk.
This just looks like a Simpsons episode… but I don’t remember which one.
