Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
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Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
@jalefkowit Yike
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Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
@jalefkowit the amount of money isn't huge but the people running it look like what the EU wants digital companies and their leadership to look like
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@jalefkowit also they don't demand structural change
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Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
@jalefkowit I wouldn’t trust anyone from PayPal
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Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
@jalefkowit what an exceedingly strange assortment of freaks.
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@jalefkowit I misread your post, got very agitated and was about to ask you to prove as to when good software won over well connected crappy software (other than Linux). Thankfully, I reread your post and saved myself from certain embarrassment.
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@jalefkowit nobody expects competence from an unkempt gay trans kid, they always expect it in the next BMW.
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Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
@jalefkowit
Philipp fucking Rösler - are you kidding me!? 🤯 -
Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
@jalefkowit all public entities must use fashy single-letter networks
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@jalefkowit all public entities must use fashy single-letter networks
Hoping @yunohost doesn't rebrand to just Y -
Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
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Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
In Portugal we call those comments: "dor de cotovelo".
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Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
@jalefkowit "Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon"
Exactly what I've been wondering since I first heard about this W thing.
Now it becomes sadly clear.
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Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
@jalefkowit Nobody is gonna use it anyway, Fediverse is built from the ground up, we don't need corrupt politicians ...
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Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
@jalefkowit Why does this remind me of a time when people went, ooh Meta can't be that bad 'cause look, they got Nick Clegg working there.
Some people never learn.
( Looking at you @EUCommission )
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Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
@jalefkowit Yep
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Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
When do we admit that the wealthy are waging a war on the 99% of us?
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Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
@jalefkowit don't worry, I'm sure it'll pair nicely with the European-in-that-Russia-is-not-not-Europe office suite that's being promoted instead of the multi-decade widely deployed European office suite.
I'm sure this table didn't come with a head shaped hole.
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@jalefkowit all public entities must use fashy single-letter networks
@ferrix @jalefkowit If W is a repsonse to X, Mastodon should just change its name to U.
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Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
They've also sided with EuroOffice instead of LibreOffice for god knows why, but likely similar reasons.
