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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 08:39:47 JST Aral Balkan

   • IzzyOnDroid ✅

   W is to ATproto what Gmail is to email.

   #WSocial #ATproto #gmail #email @IzzyOnDroid https://floss.social/@IzzyOnDroid/116770552678253394

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 09:01:39 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Kévin ⏚

     @kc @IzzyOnDroid Haha, true :)

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     Kévin ⏚ (kc@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 09:01:41 JST Kévin ⏚

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     • IzzyOnDroid ✅

     @aral @IzzyOnDroid I’d be more Yahoo! on that one, nobody knows why it’s there, people still use it, and it’s gonna be hacked like 800 times and they’ll never really do anything about it except take more personal data

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 09:10:06 JST Aral Balkan

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     • DNA schedule

     @ryanprior Nah, you’re right. At least Google is (was?) competent. Evil as all fuck, mind you. But competent. Can’t really say the same about W.

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     DNA schedule (ryanprior@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 09:10:07 JST DNA schedule

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     @aral that seems generous to me. I remember when Gmail was first launched, on April Fools 2004. Web mail back then was in sorry state, slow, feature poor, tiny allocation of storage made you constantly delete emails, and search was atrocious anyway. Gmail improved dramatically on that in every single way. How does W Social even propose to improve social media except by being associated with the European elite? That's the whole value proposition, right? I can't see it actually getting adopted.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 17:10:04 JST Aral Balkan

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     • DNA schedule

     @ryanprior That’s unfair, Ryan. You know how today you can just pick a server and start using Mastodon? They’re proposing a 13-step process before you can get to that point.

     That’s innovation.

     </sarcasm>

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     DNA schedule (ryanprior@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 17:10:05 JST DNA schedule

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     @aral I haven't seen any signs of competence or lack thereof from W, as it still seems to be in alpha state and could fully be vaporware that never launches or could work fine, as far as any of us know, right? What I'm unimpressed by is that W seems to totally lack any vision of a better world, or even a better app. Their whole schtick seems to be "we're them, but with the cool and popular kids, trust us, they're all here just out of frame laughing and having a great time"

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     DNA schedule (ryanprior@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 17:10:05 JST DNA schedule

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     @aral what made Google vital back then was that they were selling a vision of the library in the palm of your hand and the world map in your pocket, and went around an app category at a time launching best in class user experiences that blew everybody out of the water. They had a generational run of product launches. What the heck is W even proposing to do? They could be evil, incompetent, boorish, or somehow miraculously none of those things, but they don't even seem to be proposing anything?