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!
@EUCommission
Could the European Commission clarify the rationale behind supporting a proprietary product from a private company, especially given its stated commitment to open-source software and digital sovereignty? -
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 #Fediverse with #Mastodon is all I need. Can't imagine (now) that I will register to another social media network out of the Fediverse for fun again.
Sorry, I even will not take a look.
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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 From what I've read, W is super sketchy and run by a for profit organization. That means they're either planning on selling customer data or feeding ads. No thank you very much.
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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 Wheels got greased. It's the way of things.
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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 i’m starting to worry about EU budget seeing that you started posting advertisements of commercial social media on fedi
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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 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
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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
I thank you @Gargron this wonderful Mastodon technology, which allowed me to create the first Italian Catholic instance. Perhaps at the European Commission, only money matters.
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@EUCommission drop AT proto. Otherwise lol, same shit again.
@fabiscafe @EUCommission they want "Same Shit; But Euro Flag" it seems...
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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 Disgusting.
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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 Mastodon doesn't have 80 VC capitalists, ordering people to promote it, I guess.
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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 don't understand why the EU has choosen another tech bro walled garden with closed protocol, for-profit. I can only explain it to myself with the extreme lobbyism by W since Davos. How can you join their marketing blabla? What about the EU and open data /open source?
You won't find me there. And don't spend our tax money for these for-profit guys!
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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. -
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 no thanks! WSocial is closed BlueSky, @elena have you seen this post?
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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 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.
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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 can't wait until it's hacked next week and all the politicians' IDs are leaked.
Or, even more likely, that they aren't because they didn't have to provide it unlike us peasants.
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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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@EUCommission how bizarre to be promoting a random VC-funded social network when you've barely put the same effort into promoting Mastodon. This has a shady feeling to it.
@Gina @EUCommission Yeah, it feels as if a particular lobby/company is pushing to do a "wij van WC-eend" with their platform.
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@delafin @EUCommission I also wanted to recommend the important work by @_elena !
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@EUCommission No thanks, I'm not even remotely interested in joining yet another for profit startup.
What @aral says: (source https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/)
@aadschippers @EUCommission Alt text: Screenshot of @_elena’s article on W Social (detail):
“Balkan then addressed the issue of identity verification - which is required by W Social:
It's very concerning - but again, not surprising - to see folks from the European Commission jumping on this particular bandwagon. Especially given the commission's push for identity verification (under the guise of age verification - as lobbied for by Meta) and W Social's plans to make identity verification a core part of their system. My fear is that W Social is just another for-profit Big Tech startup that happens to be based in the EU. We don't need that. We don't need more European surveillance capitalists and people farmers. We need ethical alternatives working for the common good.”
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