@_elena

Until it does not materialize inside the institutions, I don't think it's relevant.
This thing seems pretty much unknown, no real information about the organization, the company, the business model.

Just a name and some ugly video @ Davos.

They're hoping / begging EU politicians to *move* from X.
European Commission already has blog/video instances and they don't use them.

The W target is some #bluesky european users who both understand the need of decentralization and are enthusiast to give to someone a copy of their documents and migrate.

Full crowds

@_elena @MediaActivist Good shout. With venture capital funded startups you only have power at one point in their lifecycle: at the very start when they haven’t scaled yet and don’t yet have network effects. If you can kill their growth curve then, you can kill the startup. If, however, you “give them the benefit of the doubt” so they can use their initial cash injection to scale and achieve network effects, they’re set. They become another Facebook, X, etc. And they remain.

@_elena I 💯 agree, Elena! Maybe we should also send invitation codes (even if not required) to those who ask, as I did back then, when #Bluesky started? 😁😈

@hpod16 I absolutely recommend following @_elena 🙂

@_elena Sounds good! Oh and @Anders_S had some insight about the company / companies behind it after some thorough research. I’m sure you can ask him about it

@_elena noting here in Sweden, and we are the ones who gonna admin it.

@_elena where did you see/ear "massive media coverage here in France"? I’m listening to France Info everyday for at least 30 minutes, and didn’t ear about W even once.

@_elena I think German media is not covering this. But is it an official platform by the EU or a random cash grab?

@_elena

Great work!

Presumably, like #EuroSky, it is a long way from launch.

So we need to leverage the noise/hype to get journalists and others to try #Mastodon out of curiosity and find something already mature and established.

#JoanMastodon

@_elena 🛐🙏

@hpod16

@_elena if they all talk about it once, it’s probably just because they all copy/paste AFP news, without much actual journalism.

This is why I try to get just one big relevant source and not read/listen to it too much.

Did some media talk about W multiple times?