European organizations are about to launch their own social media platform, W, amid rising tensions with the United States.
The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be, Danish news media outlet Politiken.dk reports.
I wish Europe would just embrace the fediverse. The techno oligarchs are not your friends and most of them are invested in the US.
It’s kinda sad.
The European Commission even has their own Mastodon instance (https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/), but it seems they can’t get any of the Commission employees or Parliament MPs to use it. It only has 10 accounts and from what I can see, only one “real” active user, Veronica Gaffey the Director-General, for Digital Services (DIGIT), who isn’t even posting on her real account but under the title @EC_DIGIT_director_general
As far as I know none of the EU member countries have their own Mastodon servers and most politicians at least here in Sweden seem to be using either X or (the technically minded “progressives”) Bluesky, while they complain about American Big Tech.
As always with politicians, actions don’t correspond to rhetoric.
Regarding this “W” social media launch though - There’s a post on the CEO’s LinkedIn about a “pre-launch” in Davos, and that links to an German article saying the same thing - but there’s no link to this launched site anywhere. ¯\(ツ)/¯
This is what’s frustrating me the most.
We have a working infrastructure. It’s open source. Please adopt.
dont get me wrong, but the fediverse from techinical perspective sucks ass, idk what fuck the they were cooking with these protocols
Well, it’s not perfect but it’s better than the way federation works on twitter, or X, Bluesky, or — we can probably assume — on W.
The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be
apparently we are now supposed to think that that is a good thing, huh
Why would we want another Twitter? Look at the first one. Screw that. Maybe social media should not exist in that format for a reason.
