@stefan @briankrebs It’s not. On the Fediverse they can’t make people verify themselves with ID documents but on this new platform they’re making, they can do that.

@MisuseCase Yep, that's what I'm thinking. https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115929732351043465

@briankrebs

@stefan "European organizations" like who ? Also, this is going nowhere.

@stefan

*There are 5 competing social media networks*

- This is so stupid! We need to create one that will combine and unite all the users!

*Result: there are 6 competing social media networks*

@stefan ... wait, are you telling me this isn't satire?

Seriously? Another silo?

@stefan Y

@stefan good press stunt. Won,t go anywhere. Identification? No way. If they want, they have the fediverse with european isntances, and anyone can create their own. Again, this is not going anywhere, It looks like a show for the press and nothing more.

@stefan @slothrop same here. Four weeks? Too much time, I give it two maximum.

@stefan Just because Europe's in a spat with America right now, I would like it to be more but am not that optimistic, doesn't mean they don't want to control and amass proffit from those who use the platform. You can't do that with the fediverse.

@stefan

If it's anything like similar startups (see Gander in Canada), they are going to spend lots of time on marketing material to investors, and little time on creating something actually useful

@slothrop
WinkedIn lol
@stefan

@stefan Yeah, that tracks.

Someone lobbied some EU suits with 'how about we make our own, with blackjack, hookers, and blockchain, AND CHAT SURVEILLANCE ALREADY BUILT IN!' and all they had to do is slip a couple hundred million into some large telco's pockets to create that failure...

Classic modus operandi in EU for stuff like that.

@Lockpro @stefan

Yeah that works fine, until you start asking things like "Is the EU Complicit in the Genocide of Palestine", and then you get labelled as an agitator or a terrorist and they come knocking at your door.

@stefan I wish they wouldn’t say “amid rising tensions” when they just mean Trump is a piece of shit.

@stefan all the "W" marketing is so low rent and cringe it's impossible to take seriously

@deadinside @stefan yeah, this sounds like an end-run around the Chat Control defeats last year

@stefan people will do literally anything to avoid building on top of web standards.

@Mabande @stefan @Lockpro Exactly this. Plus, if you ever experienced long-term bullying at school or work you very likely knew exactly who was doing the bullying. Knowing who it was didn't stop it. Accountability is what matters.

@stefan
My only question: is W to X as HAL was to IBM?

#news #TechNews #technology #SocialMedia #W

@stefan

Let them know, its ignorance, get help from eu official accounts already on.