I remember when W was announced, the things they emphasised were:

A) "Now Europeans can be the information gatekeepers too!"

B) "Now Europeans can harvest data too!"

It's as if they looked at facebook and twitter and focused on the very worst aspects of them as what they wanted to reproduce, rather than on the basic humans-talking-to-humans aspect.

For context, my two articles on #WSocial didn't include some explosive things I found out in my research because:
- I was given some information on background, confidentially
- I found a particular thread to be a bit distracting (aka the MEGA hats sold on a website with far right paraphernalia)

Plus there are so many white lies... a pattern of misrepresentation that makes it really hard for me to trust them.

Do I have to write a THIRD article about W now? 🫠

Thanks for the work! Davos, follow the money, the whole launching of that platform smells like investor's interests and hard lobbyism. When journalists sound like press releases: a sign that they don't have time for more or ... lobbyism. And we all know that lobbyism is one of the biggest problems inside EU structures.
Hope they will not burn too much public money.

For the new accounts, we had a saying in the 1968s: "imagine, they make (war), and nobody joins in." Will
@EUCommission

“Make Europe Great Again” hat.

As the Polish meme goes “I know from whom you are”¹

This movement was kickstarted by Steve Bannon trying to transplant MAGA onto the EU. He found a lot of eager Polish supporters, including MPs and MEPs.

And with those come ties to Russia, as the main adversary of the EU.

1. “A ja wiem od kogo wy są”

@EUCommission

it is baffling to me that they are not using Mastodon (EU instance) as their primary communication tool.

I hear the argument a lot that Mastodon is lacking reach but the instance could literally treated like a government website where the "reach" argument wouldn't count anyways.

@floe

It’s not really a surprise, is it? The same @EUCommission that keeps talking about “consumers” instead of “people” and “markets” instead of “societies”?

The EU started as an economic union and until we force it to change into a true union of people and human values, it’s simply better than nothing.

The @EUCommission and its president Ursula von der Leyen have recently migrated their ATproto (Bluesky) accounts to W Social.

Der EU Komission ist von Mitglieder rechte Gruppierungen Dominiert.

Von der Leyen Priorität Rechte Mitarbeit.

Mastodon ist wohl zu Linksversifft.....

> I cannot fathom why they would pick a private enterprise

I can easily not only fathom but be pretty sure why. I just do not know the sum.

@NatureMC
> lobbyism

We need to stop to use euphemisms. Not "lobbyism" but bribery. Not "investor;'s interests" but corruption.

The only place to use lobbyism for me is in the phrase "Lobbying should be punished by a life sentence for any party participating".

@EUCommission

maybe it is cause there is, roughly speaking, no one on mastodon - we are so tiny, we really don't matter in the broader scheme of things

or you might ask, why are people not here but at bluesky or threads or other places ?

maybe there is something wrong with mastodon, in the sense that users don't like it ?

devils advocate: it's still atproto (open protocol) and they only migrated their PDS so for all intents and proposes for everyone it will be absolutely unnoticeable.

(and hurt durr data mining - everything is public so it could be mined wherever they have their PDS)

on the bluesky front you have either main bsky PDS (usanian, yuck) brewing eurosky (more like community effort) and wsocial (some entity that wants to tackle it from "business perspective".
Alternatively EU commission could run their own PDS (a'la what they do with masto).

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"… It’s fair to say that politicians across the political spectrum would welcome this message. …"

@_elena

Cc @EUCommission

They migrated because A) It's European, so the assume this is more secure and looks like it's good PR. It's neither.

And B) because they are pro European AI. As much as most of Masto is against AI, European politicians and corporations are still all in on the AI hype. Why? Who knows! Maybe they really just are that dumb. Maybe they have private investments. Probably both.

It is a great pity that @EUCommission has chosen to do this, because it gives W Social some undeserved credibility. So please EUComm, please reconsider.

Would love to know _exactly who_ at the EU decided to do this… @hpod16?