RE: mastodon.social/@_elena/115943…
Good morning Fedi friends!
Thank you to all the people who participated in my poll. I plan to write a blog post early next week about all the problematic aspects of #WSocial. And I grabbed a URL that makes for a perfect shortlink / redirect to the article.
Given the massive media coverage here in France, I strongly believe it's not wise to stay silent and wish W Social away.
Quick note: I'll be offline most of the day at a child's birthday party.
Have a great day! And yay Minnesota!
Dear Fedi friends,I'm pretty fired up exposing the ridiculousness of #WSocial, a new social network purported to be a European alternative to X that launched at Davos (yikes).
The French press devoted many articles to it (meanwhile: crickets about the Fediverse).
Before I go full steam ahead grabbing domain names and creating a web site that shows the weaknesses of W / suggests to check out the Fediverse instead, I want to put it to you: should I do it?
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Tom Stoneham
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Great work!
Presumably, like #EuroSky, it is a long way from launch.
So we need to leverage the noise/hype to get journalists and others to try #Mastodon out of curiosity and find something already mature and established.
#JoanMastodon
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •if they all talk about it once, it’s probably just because they all copy/paste AFP news, without much actual journalism.
This is why I try to get just one big relevant source and not read/listen to it too much.
Did some media talk about W multiple times?
Daniel Artfors
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •BrennpunktUA debunked 🕵🏻♀️
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •I 💯 agree, Elena! Maybe we should also send
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@hpod16 I absolutely recommend following @_elena 🙂
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in reply to BrennpunktUA debunked 🕵🏻♀️ • • •place 4️⃣ in the (non personalized) Google search results for "WSocial" (at least from Germany). You did a great job! 😈
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in reply to Jay Baker • • •I go into more detail in my older talks, e.g., this one from six years ago: Ethical Technology or Feudalism?
yewtu.be/watch?v=FsF4sdMPYas
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Until it does not materialize inside the institutions, I don't think it's relevant.
This thing seems pretty much unknown, no real information about the organization, the company, the business model.
Just a name and some ugly video @ Davos.
They're hoping / begging EU politicians to *move* from X.
European Commission already has blog/video instances and they don't use them.
The W target is some #bluesky european users who both understand the need of decentralization and are enthusiast to give to someone a copy of their documents and migrate.
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