@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.

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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

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WinkedIn lol
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@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.

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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.

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

#news #TechNews #technology #SocialMedia #W

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

@stefan seems like addressing the underlying problem of social platforms not offering any interoperability or data portability would be more useful.

@stefan Not necessarily. In the developing sitution, it might be about branding, but odds are good that it will interact with Fediverse.

@riley That would definitely be great!

@Szescstopni @stefan Nah, Alphabet failed with their attempt (Google Plus)

@stefan I think they should have gone with Y. As in "WHY aren't they federating???"

@stefan technically, they could launch a Fediverse-compatible server and do ID verification there, but federate to the whole Fediverse

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Oliver Schönrock (@oschonrock@mastodon.social)

@dansup It seems the concept is fully verified identities.... No Pseudonymity That probably isn't compatible with the fediverse and is a significantly different value proposition. I doubt it will succeed among the general public but it might become popular with journalists, corporate and govt accounts. More broadcast than true N:N.

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@stefan The fediverse is harder to control. The EU are control freaks.