@_elena @usti So is there a link? Or has it gone?

@_elena @usti

I haven't seen the original video... but here is a brief interview at the conference w/ Anna Zeiter talking about WSocial:

YouTube.com/watch?v=hNVAbSxydUg

@_elena @usti is a copy of the video still available anywhere ?

@_elena

Oh wow! That clearly doesn't make this WSocial case any better... ^

Since you've said you'll be writing about it, but I've not yet seen an article about it from you, I think this could be of interest to you, @adfichter

#WSocial

⚠️ More shocking news! 🚨

Christine Lagarde and the European Central Bank have just migrated to #WSocial too!!!

(For context, see the beginning of this thread).

I'm at a loss for words today. Truly.

What a world.

If you missed my exposés on this controversial, problematic company, here they are:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/

@_elena

Removing this video looks an admission of guilt.

@_elena

My suspicion, and I cannot prove this because I was not in the room at the time, is that this is also what the closed-door investor pitches for other social media apps were like. The difference here is that they aren't bothering with also having a pitch to the end users. I'm going to guess that this approach probably will not help with widespread adoption, given that attention is so sought-after nowadays.

On the one hand, we could read this as a parable about the Commission as a whole: so accustomed to the top-down insider-first approach that they never considered even the appearance of asking users what they wanted and then building that.

On the other hand, this may simply be where we are in the common era year twenty twenty six: wannabe oligarchs talking to governments about what sort of tech the peasants will be herded into.

@hbons @shemjm @_elena @EUCommission I was just about to say, why does it look like the intern just discovered html?

@_elena @Razemix but W is just a PDS rn, which is very simple to set up I'm following many kids who are running their own.

@_elena Yeah, I know, creating a whole separate stack would be an overkill. They could definitely leverage Eurosky in this regard. What I'm saying is that at least having their own PDS (to have control over their data) should be an absolute no-brainer.