A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces.
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@EUCommission What safeguards are there that prevent W from enshitifying?
What prevents W from taking the same path that Twitter did?
Based on their own description:
"It is built by a pan-European team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors from the media, technology, and AI sectors."What safeguards are there to prevent the eventual data-harvest to feed the LLM models, that happened with social mediums such as Reddit?
I don't see any features that make W better than Mastodon
@petrikas @EUCommission None. It’s VC. It’s already been sold.
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@makeratschool Do you have a link, please?
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A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces.
We believe true digital sovereignty thrives on a competitive, contestable, open ecosystem where diverse platforms co-exist.
Today, we’re expanding our presence to W, the new social media. By being on W, we want to boost alternatives and support all efforts toward a decentralised web.
And we continue to invest into our presence on the Fediverse!
@EUCommission
“Make Europe Great Again” pro-Kremlin fash made site?No thanks, and take a brain dewormer.
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A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces.
We believe true digital sovereignty thrives on a competitive, contestable, open ecosystem where diverse platforms co-exist.
Today, we’re expanding our presence to W, the new social media. By being on W, we want to boost alternatives and support all efforts toward a decentralised web.
And we continue to invest into our presence on the Fediverse!
@EUCommission I’m going to stick with Mastodon. It’s nice to be part of a community that’s a bit offbeat, yet lovely and friendly.
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@Gina @EUCommission Yeah, it feels as if a particular lobby/company is pushing to do a "wij van WC-eend" with their platform.
*Wij van VC-eend
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@EUCommission haha
This is a joke!Right?
You don't expect people here to follow you on venture capital funded, forced id upload, welcome to afd Nazis network??@coba
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A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces.
We believe true digital sovereignty thrives on a competitive, contestable, open ecosystem where diverse platforms co-exist.
Today, we’re expanding our presence to W, the new social media. By being on W, we want to boost alternatives and support all efforts toward a decentralised web.
And we continue to invest into our presence on the Fediverse!
@EUCommission I expect "George" magazine to merge with "W" to form "Bush".
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*Wij van VC-eend
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A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces.
We believe true digital sovereignty thrives on a competitive, contestable, open ecosystem where diverse platforms co-exist.
Today, we’re expanding our presence to W, the new social media. By being on W, we want to boost alternatives and support all efforts toward a decentralised web.
And we continue to invest into our presence on the Fediverse!
@EUCommission I wonder why you push that so hard and you never mentioned or used @alugha which is here since 2014...
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@EUCommission No thanks, I wouldn't touch a proprietary, for-profit, VC-funded, surveillance capitalism, "social-media" just because you wrongly claim it's "open ecosystem"
It's so toxic by design I wouldn't even approach it wearing level A Personal Protective Equipment…
Let alone the fact it was named after Musk's nazi bar "X"… 🤮
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A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces.
We believe true digital sovereignty thrives on a competitive, contestable, open ecosystem where diverse platforms co-exist.
Today, we’re expanding our presence to W, the new social media. By being on W, we want to boost alternatives and support all efforts toward a decentralised web.
And we continue to invest into our presence on the Fediverse!
Advertising W here… Read the room perhaps?
Welcome to Web 4.0 where all your web activity will be tracked, linked to your verified identity tied to some hardware root of trust AND monetized in one big swoop for YOUR benefit. Unverified = no OS or web access. We’ve partnered with Google and Cloudflare et al to ensure that you won’t be bothered by unverified people ever again. Kids will be safe on Web 4.0.
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A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces.
We believe true digital sovereignty thrives on a competitive, contestable, open ecosystem where diverse platforms co-exist.
Today, we’re expanding our presence to W, the new social media. By being on W, we want to boost alternatives and support all efforts toward a decentralised web.
And we continue to invest into our presence on the Fediverse!
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A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces.
We believe true digital sovereignty thrives on a competitive, contestable, open ecosystem where diverse platforms co-exist.
Today, we’re expanding our presence to W, the new social media. By being on W, we want to boost alternatives and support all efforts toward a decentralised web.
And we continue to invest into our presence on the Fediverse!
@EUCommission "Open"?
Merely inventing your own, in-house, probably closed, "network" and declaring it "open" is delusional.
Federation is the *coming-together* of people's instances, joined by common purpose. That's openness in practice.
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A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces.
We believe true digital sovereignty thrives on a competitive, contestable, open ecosystem where diverse platforms co-exist.
Today, we’re expanding our presence to W, the new social media. By being on W, we want to boost alternatives and support all efforts toward a decentralised web.
And we continue to invest into our presence on the Fediverse!
@EUCommission A social media with an advisory guy working at Sam Altman's eye-ball-scanning company?
"Privacy" yeah sure
I'll pass thx
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Whether here on our Mastodon server, or on ATproto with new W profile
@ec.europa.eu – we look forward to staying connected with you.@EUCommission
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@EUCommission Yeah, promoting a platform that intends to become a nazi bar is certainly a good idea /s
@marlin @EUCommission that plus they have the explicit intent of collecting as much PII as possible in order to make money off selling it lmao
“digital sovereignty” my ass. ah yeah instead of relying on imports of fashtech, lets make our own sovereign nationalist fashtech!! what a stellar proposition
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A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces.
We believe true digital sovereignty thrives on a competitive, contestable, open ecosystem where diverse platforms co-exist.
Today, we’re expanding our presence to W, the new social media. By being on W, we want to boost alternatives and support all efforts toward a decentralised web.
And we continue to invest into our presence on the Fediverse!
@EUCommission I'm glad you're working on getting reach, please don't abandon this place
I promise the w3 standards won't let you down, even if some of the people here can sometimes be a bit uh, demanding at times haha, I promise they mean well! -
A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces.
We believe true digital sovereignty thrives on a competitive, contestable, open ecosystem where diverse platforms co-exist.
Today, we’re expanding our presence to W, the new social media. By being on W, we want to boost alternatives and support all efforts toward a decentralised web.
And we continue to invest into our presence on the Fediverse!
@EUCommission dear EU Commission and VdL:
eurosky exists.
why go to a walled garden, isn't the sovereignty tech fund all about open source? what's so open about WSocial?
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@makeratschool Do you have a link, please?
@NatureMC
sorry, forgot it. Now edited the toot
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A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces.
We believe true digital sovereignty thrives on a competitive, contestable, open ecosystem where diverse platforms co-exist.
Today, we’re expanding our presence to W, the new social media. By being on W, we want to boost alternatives and support all efforts toward a decentralised web.
And we continue to invest into our presence on the Fediverse!
@EUCommission if you did your research, you would stay far away from W instead of promoting it.
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