Amazing.

[gutterpoetry@mastodon.me.uk]

@aral @nicolasvivant

Agreed, and yet... Better dubya than musk/trump

[benjaoming@social.data.coop]

@aral @nicolasvivant I love how they don't know how to configure a webserver (i.e. setup www.wsocial.eu to redirect properly)

[ariarhythmic@ohai.social]

@aral @nicolasvivant these guys spin the faults of US big tech into some sort of nationalist, "patriotic" tale about how europe is inherently superior. it's annoying because it's never been a matter of that.

[normjess@tech.lgbt]

@flesh @aral its like how people's problem with Fascism is the European part

[davide_sandini@mastodon.uno]

@dcoderlt
A good millionaire is a mythical, imaginary creature that only populate deams and fantasy books.
Isn't more real than pink unicorns or dragons.
@normjess @aral

[flesh@transfem.social]

@normjess@tech.lgbt @aral@mastodon.ar.al I was paraphrasing the joke of "Their problem with Nazi Germany is the Germany part", so pretty much.

[vivtek@indieweb.social]

@aral @nicolasvivant "Finally, it's *our* turn to be centralizing oligarchs!"

[vivtek@indieweb.social]

@aral @dolanor @nicolasvivant I got half a paragraph in. It's like every Silicon Valley booster only in the German corporate press release genre.

The first half of the W stands for Values? They've spent more time thinking about their logo than whether what they're doing even makes sense.

[lowlevel@mastodon.social]

@aral @nicolasvivant
they're keen not to mention any fediverse competitor, the only real alternative.

[pre@boing.world]

@aral @nicolasvivant But they don't want a federated alternative owned by nobody, they want a government panopticon that they own and control themselves, not some decentralized un-owned un-controlable alternative.

I will not be registering, certainly.

[nicolasvivant@colter.social]

@toon @aral @6d03

I support mine, since I administrate/moderate/pay for it :)

[mdione@en.osm.town]

@ramshackle @aral in Spain's Spanish it's "u-ve do-ble", 4 syllables :-P

[mathew@universeodon.com]

@bargo @aral @nicolasvivant The closed platforms all got their key ideas from Usenet, which was federated and predates them all. Threaded conversations like this, for example, are an idea copied from Usenet.

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

@GutterPoetry @nicolasvivant Not our only two options (thank fuck).

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@aral @nicolasvivant

They definitely were talking notes from #Bluesky Jay Graber's disingenuous 'decentralized' charm offensive.

[fenixmaster@mastodon.social]

@aral @nicolasvivant Do not use wsocial.

[fedi@mast.lat]

@aral @nicolasvivant here is a picture of W Social's CEO on LinkedIn. "Make Europe Great Again"

[bob@epicyon.libreserver.org]

@aral Totally predictable.

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

@fedi @nicolasvivant *smdh*

[doktorzjivago@mastodonsweden.se]

@mastodonmigration @aral @nicolasvivant I checked it and the company is actually registered in Sweden. It’s amazing that they think they can attract regular people with a “top-bottom”-approach by first courting tech companies and LinkedIn peeps . At least bluesky started with the furries and lgbtqia+ people