@[email protected] is shilling for a closed-source Mastodon alternative
A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces. We believe true digital sovereignty thrives on a competitive, contestable, open ecosystem where diverse platforms co-exist. Today, we’re expanding our presence to W, the new social media. By being on #W, we want to boost alternatives and support all efforts toward a decentralised web. And we continue to invest into our presence on the Fediverse!
It took the EU commission 2 years to join #Mastodon and within 2 months, it joined a closed-source alternative
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/users/EUCommission/statuses/116766280029168108Open linkView original on fedia.io
They gotta have control so they can turn it off if they don't like what you say.
I don't care about W, X or Z. As long as they keep and use a sovereign instance in the fediverse, they still have a presence in the right place.
A bigger concern is convincing people and content producers to switch from X/IG/FB/TikTok/etc to the fediverse.
... and that's the name they went with?? If they're making a Twitter clone, why not riff on the name Twitter? If you had to go with a single-letter name (which is already stupid), why W of all letters? Nobody's going to say "Hey man, did you see my post on Double-Yoo last night?" At least make it Z or something, making Zed posts sounds way better.
Of all the letters to pick, Z is probably not the one to go for when the Russian army is using it as a symbol for their invasion
I would assume they named it W to play on the W/L win/lose thing. And if it magically did become popular it'd probably just be Dub
I think it's a stupid joke. W, X, Y, Z . W is before X --> it's better.
Ahh yeah, that'd make sense
wtf is that landing page
so confusing
@[email protected] What the heck is W?
A privately funded, close-source, "EU-only" Xitter clone that's pretending to be a viable alternative and taking advantage of the EU sovereignty wave.