Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W
European organizations are about to launch their own social media platform, W, amid rising tensions with the United States.
The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be, Danish news media outlet Politiken.dk reports.
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0xtero
in reply to MoogleMaestro • • •It's kinda sad.
The European Commission even has their own Mastodon instance (ec.social-network.europa.eu/), but it seems they can't get any of the Commission employees or Parliament MPs to use it. It only has 10 accounts and from what I can see, only one "real" active user, Veronica Gaffey the Director-General, for Digital Services (DIGIT), who isn't even posting on her real account but under the title @EC_DIGIT_director_general
As far as I know none of the EU member countries have their own Mastodon servers and most politicians at least here in Sweden seem to be using either X or (the technically minded "progressives") Bluesky, while they complain about American Big Tech.
As always with politicians, actions don't correspond to rhetoric.
Regarding this "W" social media launch though - There's a post on the CEO's LinkedIn about a "pre-launch" in Davos, and that links to an German article saying the same thing - but there's no link to this launched site anywhere. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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FunkyCheese
in reply to 0xtero • • •I hear that the only users of twitter in Denmark are: tech bros, journalists and politicians
And politicians wanna be where the journalists are
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in reply to FunkyCheese • • •leavex.eu/politicians/
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs)
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in reply to Cătă 🇷🇴🇺🇦🇲🇩🇪🇺 • • •I guess it's the same old, same old story as always - politicians (in general), even in EU are not really looking to do the "right thing". They're looking to do the most populistic thing.
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in reply to 0xtero • • •Ireland has Mastadon.ie, it's not official but it is at least a server there.
ByteOnBikes
in reply to MoogleMaestro • • •This is what's frustrating me the most.
We have a working infrastructure. It's open source. Please adopt.
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in reply to ByteOnBikes • • •apparently we are now supposed to think that that is a good thing, huh
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cristian64
in reply to schnurrito • • •Not something for general users but, for organisations and public figures, having a platform with only verified entities is valuable.
For general users: Mastodon and the Fediverse.
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knokelmaat
in reply to cristian64 • • •I am a huge proponent of privacy, anonymity and freedom of information and I also totally support this idea.
A public place where people have to speak as their public selves is useful to have and doesn't mean other spaces have to be removed. Especially for official communication from public entities, I prefer them to use this than some other sites that are rampant with bots, imposters and the like.
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TehPers
in reply to schnurrito • • •This depends on how the verification is done, in my opinion, as well as whether there is a presence of more anonymous alternatives.
If the EU has a system which does not rely on third parties for verification and allows the platform to verify directly with a government-run service, then the only real issue there is lack of anonymity, which isn't necessarily a bad thing on a platform if there are also popular anonymous alternatives people can use when they want to.
The article doesn't go into how ID verification will work though. If it's through third parties like how the US does it, then that's disgusting and waiting to be breached.
MotoAsh
in reply to TehPers • • •A government endpoint would also be a very spicy target, even if (and that's a big IF) they programmed it correctly and didn't store any verification info outside of RAM and had the internal data references locked down tight.
It might take getting people actual digital keys that are theirs and using those with proper cryptographic processes instead of PII before such a target might end up hardened enough to not be a time bomb waiting to happen.
0xtero
in reply to TehPers • • •The EU has been driving union wide "Digital Identity Wallet"
It's documented here: ec.europa.eu/digital-building-…
EU Digital Identity Wallet Home - EU Digital Identity Wallet -
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tal
in reply to LadyAutumn • • •The Threadiverse is also social media. I mean, it's distributed and not owned by a single company, and much of it is funded by donations, but...
EDIT: And Mastodon is a direct competitor to Twitter, and it also runs on the Fediverse.
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in reply to ByteOnBikes • • •IIRC the EC actually paid for some of the development of Kbin (now Mbin) with a grant.
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