A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces.
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And why did they not call it “Y”?
@Gormfull @ayo @Gargron @EUCommission yes Y?
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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!
"A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces."
Yes.
This "W" thing is explicitly not one of those, though, is it?
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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 The new platform explicitly caters to the far right and fascists though, sooo ...
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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 Did they at least offer you an account?
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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 Easier to do surveillance on a closed platform.
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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 W is not an independent digital space.
And it's really telling that certain politicians, like von der Leyen, opt to have a presence on the network that doesn't really exist yet, isn't really available to anyone yet, and will be really quite hard to access for everyone when it does; as opposed to an actually European, actually open, actually independent, actually federated network
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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!
hi, american here
with my country in the toilet of #plutocracy and #bigotry, i look nowadays to #europe as the beacon of civilization and the free world
but this... this #W thing is #techBro shit in all the ways we despise
this is...
american
if you have an american, calling something american, in terms of the most grotesque of stereotypes as a european would consider, well then you done fucked up
fuck "W"
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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 we don’t need no W social network. Not when it’s based on the wrong pseudo-open standards and backed by VC money.
Mastodon and ActivityPub is what you should be endorsing as the true decentralised social network.
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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 weak
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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 smells like someone from Sweden had spent a lot of time in the European Commission just to join that fast a network which welcomes explicit right-wingers in their ad... i mean in the interviews. I can't remember the European Commission did something else that fast.
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hi, american here
with my country in the toilet of #plutocracy and #bigotry, i look nowadays to #europe as the beacon of civilization and the free world
but this... this #W thing is #techBro shit in all the ways we despise
this is...
american
if you have an american, calling something american, in terms of the most grotesque of stereotypes as a european would consider, well then you done fucked up
fuck "W"
@benroyce @EUCommission
We like to say we're number one, but everything we build turns into number two.Don't be US.
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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 boo!
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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
What is W? Another privately owned centralized service? Why? -
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 Public money, public code.
So no, I most certainly will not follow you on another closed source platform by someone trying to be the next Elon Musk.
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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
Because we are concerned about people visiting a American nazi-bar we have now come up with a solution by asking a European to build a European nazi-bar. -
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
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hi, american here
with my country in the toilet of #plutocracy and #bigotry, i look nowadays to #europe as the beacon of civilization and the free world
but this... this #W thing is #techBro shit in all the ways we despise
this is...
american
if you have an american, calling something american, in terms of the most grotesque of stereotypes as a european would consider, well then you done fucked up
fuck "W"
@benroyce @EUCommission Meanwhile, ActivityPub and OStatus, as well as much of their implementing software, all originate from Europe. Sounds like that would've been the obvious choice.
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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 When clicking on post asks me to login/create account instead of opening the post, I know to run away.
Also its proprietary garbage.
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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 centralized and closed source... this way, the people in control have the power to decide who to ban, censor, etc.
What's next, mandatory "age" verification all over the web?
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