@aral @nicolasvivant in fairness to them, Frontex and the terfs in the European Parliament would cause any server like that to be defederated anyway

@aral @nicolasvivant EU: 'We're switching to Linux and LibreOffice to get rid of Big Tech!

Also EU: 'We're spying on you like Big Tech when viable social media alternatives already exist in the Fediverse!'

Lemme guess, the EU is going to drop Linux and LibreOffice for their own 'Windows' and their own 'Office' that's completely proprietary and incompatible with everything else next?

@aral @nicolasvivant

lol yeah no thanks

@aral @nicolasvivant this is even more cringe than "macro hard"

@aral @nicolasvivant It will require ID verification, LOL… LMAO even

@aral @nicolasvivant

More #techshit to compost.

https://hamishcampbell.com/tag/techshit/

@aral Totally predictable.

@aral @nicolasvivant here is a picture of W Social's CEO on LinkedIn. "Make Europe Great Again"

@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 @nicolasvivant Do not use wsocial.

@aral @nicolasvivant

They definitely were talking notes from #Bluesky Jay Graber's disingenuous 'decentralized' charm offensive.

@aral @nicolasvivant
they're keen not to mention any fediverse competitor, the only real alternative.

@aral @nicolasvivant "Finally, it's *our* turn to be centralizing oligarchs!"

@aral @nicolasvivant these guys spin the faults of US big tech into some sort of nationalist, "patriotic" tale about how europe is inherently superior. it's annoying because it's never been a matter of that.

@aral @nicolasvivant I love how they don't know how to configure a webserver (i.e. setup www.wsocial.eu to redirect properly)

@aral @nicolasvivant

Agreed, and yet... Better dubya than musk/trump

@aral

Another Bluesky rug pull in the making.

@aral @nicolasvivant South America has Mastodon instances too. Where is it?

@aral @nicolasvivant
If it is not built for greed, I dont see it 🤡

@aral @nicolasvivant who are those big tech? I tried to find, but it's not very visible.

@aral
when will non-techies learn the answer to Big Tech is not MORE Big Tech

its like reaching for another pair of soiled underpants

@aral @fkamiah17 @nicolasvivant if it's not on a stock market, it doesn't exist?

@aral @nicolasvivant Truly regarded 🤣

@aral @nicolasvivant eh, in reality, most of the federated platforms came in responses pr alternatives to closed ones, for example, you can compare when was Mastodon born & when was Twitter
but yeah, they are becoming worse & worse each day, I am using fb since 2008 and if you compare what I remember with the current state, you'll seriously question why all Tunisians are there, well, most of them anyway

@aral@mastodon.ar.al @nicolasvivant@colter.social ​i thought it was a meme 🫠

btw also bluesky is lobbying quite hard in EU afaik

@aral @nicolasvivant The real WE: https://www.w-social.eu/

@aral W? more like L