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 The empty spaces on this map are where the good social networks are! 😉
@jaz Eurobros, aka european techbros.. Just as bad as their American cousins.
They got the money, they got the connections, but they ain’t got the thing.
@jaz I am torn, in the midst of a metaphysical dichotomy. Mastodon is the way it is now because a few do not know or do not want to know about it, but promote it more and we'll have X Mk II or Truth Social god forbid, yes I am a fan of homeostasis.
@byrnensorg I honestly don't think that's the outcome. There are a million Fediverses, all built by people like you and me who connect to and consume from just a portion of the entire thing. Everyone blocks something, almost no-one is connected to all of it.
Add 100 million more people, you don't necessarily have to be exposed to them. Some might call it splintering or fragmenting or decentralising, I call it groups.
@jaz I didn't know TikTok USA was in Mexico
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'? (-:
@jaz and that is just the major instances and doesn't account for all the smaller instances as well.
Why do I say it's hurried?
@jaz Even more concerning since the founder was Chief Privacy Officer according to the article you linked.
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 I was just looking at the first picture and asking myself....Where the hell is logo from Mastodon 🫠
