This bizarre, hurried cut-and-paste Bluesky clone called "W" (wsocial.eu) says it will fill this huge gap in Europe where no social media platforms exist.
Meanwhile... https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/fediverse-near-me_828094#3/25.80/29.79
@jaz Maybe it's a nod to the power of the fediverse: all these instances (even m.s) are so small they disappear once you zoom out enough on the map with very little power concentration compared to the logos listed 🙂
I reckon the map massively under-counts the number of small instances.
My single user one that's just a raspberry pi in my living room and fronted by Cloudflare is unlikely to be tallied, for example.
Great framing!
Just don't mis-type the domain name, or you'll get directed to those strange people who write about cats and sheep and Glasgow. (-:
https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115937301398338772
Do you think that the social. top-level domain registry (Leaf Group) allows single-letter registrations like 'w'? (-:
Why do I say it's hurried?
@jaz definitely hurried, they also don't have a security issue reporting flow yet. Which I incidentally discovered yesterday (https://bsky.app/profile/tomkahe.com/post/3mcz77x3wfc26). Had to reach out to one of their engineers who forwarded it onto their ops team.
I do hope they succeed, but this feels like the wrong way to go about it.
Let's see what's trending on the EU-focused social media platform.
Delroy Lindo - British actor, so thanks for having us back, good to be European again.
Davos Forum - no comment
Trump's Board of Peace - even less comment
Mets Trade - Ah yes, the Malmo Mets. Love 'em.
Swerve Strickland - almost Swedish.
AEW Dynamite - EU sure is - ahem - "wrestling" with digital sovereignty
To be clear, I'm all for any and all platforms pushing for digital sovereignty, but this feels like a brash attempt to undercut Eurosky and get something, anything, on the board for Davos. There appears to be funding.
Governments can't fund what they don't know about.
If European digital sovereignty is important to you, start writing some emails to the people you think might be funding this.
Some background: https://www.bilanz.ch/people/w-social-will-twitter-konkurrenz-machen-899933
@jaz
Mit vielen b-promis, die ihre Kontakte ansprechen ..
Konkrete Werte kann ich mir aber bei diesen spontan nicht vorstellen.
." Im Advisory Board sitzen der deutsche Ex-Vizekanzler und Wahlschweizer Philipp Rösler, Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Chair des Club of Rome, Cristina Caffara, Chair von EuroStack, der Vereinigung der 300 wichtigsten Tech-CEO, .. "
@jaz it would seem that they're aiming at:
1. No bots allowed
2. Every user proven and verfied
And makes even less sense due to EC having Mastodon presence *shrugs*
Also, interestingly, follows the open letter to Ursula von der Leyen:
https://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/public/media/file/1/9172
Them using hats saying "Make Europe Great Again" says it all. It's not rejecting fascism, it's emulating it, perhaps embracing it.
I'm not sure using AT is a good idea because by its nature it leads to large interests controlling the network. It seems to have been designed specifically with that in mind.
