This bizarre, hurried cut-and-paste Bluesky clone called "W" (wsocial.eu) says it will fill this huge gap in Europe where no social media platforms exist.

[jaz@toot.wales]

This bizarre, hurried cut-and-paste Bluesky clone called "W" (wsocial.eu) says it will fill this huge gap in Europe where no social media platforms exist.

Meanwhile... https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/fediverse-near-me_828094#3/25.80/29.79

[the_rebel@procial.tchncs.de]

@jaz@toot.wales look to this map
https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/map/

Europe is full of Social Media Instanzes

[jaz@toot.wales]

Why do I say it's hurried?

[jaz@toot.wales]

Let's see what's trending on the EU-focused social media platform.

Delroy Lindo - British actor, so thanks for having us back, good to be European again.
Davos Forum - no comment
Trump's Board of Peace - even less comment
Mets Trade - Ah yes, the Malmo Mets. Love 'em.
Swerve Strickland - almost Swedish.
AEW Dynamite - EU sure is - ahem - "wrestling" with digital sovereignty

[jaz@toot.wales]

To be clear, I'm all for any and all platforms pushing for digital sovereignty, but this feels like a brash attempt to undercut Eurosky and get something, anything, on the board for Davos. There appears to be funding.

Governments can't fund what they don't know about.

If European digital sovereignty is important to you, start writing some emails to the people you think might be funding this.

Some background: https://www.bilanz.ch/people/w-social-will-twitter-konkurrenz-machen-899933

[alex@social.alexhyett.com]

@jaz and that is just the major instances and doesn't account for all the smaller instances as well.

[nlupo@amikejo.xyz]

@jaz I'm in the EU and I have an instance. Am I joke to you?

[jaz@toot.wales]

@nlupo the map does not show /all/ instances, it's not a map of everything.

https://jaz.co.uk/projects/mastodon-near-me/#inclusion-criteria

[nlupo@amikejo.xyz]

@jaz I was not yelling at the fedi map, but at the statement of the so called "wsocial".

[jaz@toot.wales]

@nlupo lol cool, sorry for the misunderstanding

[echedellelr@soc.masfloss.net]

@jaz Akkoma, Pleroma, Sharkey, Misskey, GoToSocial, Writefreely...

[jaz@toot.wales]

@echedellelr

If you have services you'd like to see added, I've created an intake form.

https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/Ric8ThY+rCmnp3FnYh9iDID+btsSuNJHNPyWb-+mNOw/

[enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be]

@jaz@toot.wales They mean corporate owned social media platforms like Twitter, Tik Tok, Meta, etc.

Because in the eyes of a normie, social media is corporate owned and the internet is the GAFAM