Aral Balkan
Amazing. W (I kid you not): A bunch of VC-funded European Big Tech assholes attempting to rewrite history by erasing the federated European alternatives that already exist to create their own centralised, surveillance-ridden X clone.
Same shit, different flag.
And I’m sure the usual fools will flock to it the moment it’s ready.
Fuck these people.
#EU #bullshit #W #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming @nicolasvivant https://colter.social/@nicolasvivant/115929963687586528
Toon
@aral @nicolasvivant The real WE: https://www.w-social.eu/
Aral Balkan
@6d03 @toon @nicolasvivant I support mine 100% ;)
Björn Gohla
Maybe this is also a good time to consider supporting your mastodon instance.
Aral Balkan
@GutterPoetry @nicolasvivant Not our only two options (thank fuck).
GutterPoetry
Agreed, and yet... Better dubya than musk/trump
Antti Peltola ⁂
Another Bluesky rug pull in the making.
Aral Balkan
@fedi @nicolasvivant *smdh*
SigueFedi ⁂
@aral @nicolasvivant here is a picture of W Social's CEO on LinkedIn. "Make Europe Great Again"
Fabio Manganiello
@aral @nicolasvivant it’s surreal how these folks would throw any new corporate crap at us while ignoring the literal elephant in the room - that ActivityPub has already proved its point and they just need to run their instances.
–EDIT–
Oh, a closer look points to something interesting:
Anonymous accounts and automated bots are not allowed, according to the project’s backers
So how do you prevent anonymous accounts and bots?
Simple, with online identity verification!
That’s why they ignore ActivityPub 🙂
They’re trying to sell us the solution for an existential problem that they have created themselves around an emergency that doesn’t exist.
At this point any Trojan horse that can get EU citizens to swallow online identity verification can work. And if they can edulcolorate with a “but it’s a European sovereign social network!” (even if the ID verification mechanisms still rely on Google’s and Apple’s operating systems) then why not give it a try? 😄
Aral Balkan
@doktorzjivago @mastodonmigration @nicolasvivant Still overpriced.
DoktorZjivago
@mastodonmigration @aral @nicolasvivant The stock is worth €2500 approximately, which is the absolute lowest amount you need to go in with in order to get the approval to start a private company in Sweden lol
Mastodon Migration
They definitely were talking notes from #Bluesky Jay Graber's disingenuous 'decentralized' charm offensive.
DoktorZjivago
@mastodonmigration @aral @nicolasvivant I checked it and the company is actually registered in Sweden. It’s amazing that they think they can attract regular people with a “top-bottom”-approach by first courting tech companies and LinkedIn peeps . At least bluesky started with the furries and lgbtqia+ people
Aral Balkan
@aslakr @fabio @nicolasvivant Must say, I’m nuttall convinced about all this.
Aslak Raanes
@fabio @nicolasvivant @aral And it seems like they are going to rely on AI for moderation/filtering and will not ban accounts. I guess fascist would be ok.
The clip where the CEO say they won't ban people https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxOqOEys_yr23eTXrV4CiYJf5S4Nmim1Zf?si=KTernWSN8HRmP7Dv
Aral Balkan
@gravitas @nicolasvivant Surely you mean LMWAO ;)
gravitas
@aral @nicolasvivant It will require ID verification, LOL… LMAO even
Half-Illithid Og
@fedi @aral @nicolasvivant truly pitiful
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