A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces.
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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
Oh no, thanks. A VC-funded, closed source, falsely open social network? You can, and must, do better than endorsing it. -
@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
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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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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@ec.social-network.europa.eu putting the W in Why
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@EUCommission If EU Commission migrating their Bluesky account to W Social isn't a perfect example showing how European Commission has been captured by corporate interests then I don't know what is. To someone increasingly interested in democratic systems, it's so obvious to see just that. Disappointed is to say nothing.
@Frisk @EUCommission and this is literally a day after killing the "Stop Destroying Videogames" initiative.
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@NatureMC
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@WIRED @EUCommission@makeratschool thanks! @WIRED @EUCommission
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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 you had every opportunity to choose eurosky and instead chose somewhere with so many red flags, including their marketing spreading disinformation. I can only hope this horrid implementation of W is a massive fail. I also wonder if this is the result of simple lobbying or outright corruption.
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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
NO W-ay
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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 so, your money friends brought you a new commercial alternative, easily identifiable users and less features to cut off those that are not interested in fruitful discussion. and you do frame that as a win?
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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
No W, because it's closed source, privately owned and American & Bluesky connected.
W has been dishonest in PR. -
@Gina@fosstodon.org @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
Mastodon is just part of the Fediverse! W is part of the Fediverse! The EU is supporting the Fediverse!@Gina@fosstodon.org @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu @lemonlolita@calckey.world According to https://wsocial.news/ , it uses the AT protocol, not ActivityPub. AP is what is usually meant by the Fediverse.
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@EUCommission It's kind of crazy that Mastodon never got this kind of promotion and endorsement, unlike this 4 month old platform that came out of nowhere.
@Gargron @EUCommission because mastodon is not a single instance and thus cannot be held liable for things happening on the 'verse.
Unless you defederate your instance or are able and willing to assume ownership of all behaviour on it (solo/institution instance, moderation, filters, etc) its just not happening.
If the new kid on the block will follow the rules better than twitter will have to be seen.Mastodon will not and cannot be the next twitter, and i dont think it should even try to be.
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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu putting the W in Why
@EUCommission be like “A strong Europe needs foo and bar” then say such unhinged shit youd think its a the onion headline. many such cases. see also: “the AI continent”
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