Must see from @euronews:

[dasjot@social.tchncs.de]

@_elena @euronews and of course Alice Putinsdottir is pushing the narrative. “Control is freedom’ is attributed to Woke? Well, I guess for the Right every accusation still is a confession…

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@sharan why would anyone want to join a billionaire-owned social media platform? 🫠

[sharan@metalhead.club]

@_elena I dunno. I was there, I'm not anymore. But having government as a failsafe for billionaires - I mean, the majority of those are in their pockets.

I think Mastodon is the only viable option at the moment.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@sharan watch out you may draw the ire of Fedi enthusiasts. Maybe we can say that the Fediverse (with all its FOSS software solutions) is the only viable option?

There’s so much good stuff here, from Friendica to Sharkey, GoToSocial, PeerTube. Something for everyone ☺️

[sharan@metalhead.club]

@_elena I am deeply sorry for hurting so many people's feelings.

OK, Fediverse, open source, people oriented technology, that's the solution. Probably. We're all humans, we will fuck it up somehow.

BTW, great Sex Pistolesque Fediverse shirt! ❤️

[kabit@yiff.life]

@_elena @euronews

tbh, W sounds decent. That's a low bar to hit, somehow.

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@fosdembsd Why would you say that is strange? This is exactly what should happen, organisations that want control over their communications have their own instance, but are not in control of the network.

[kryptykphysh@mastodon.kryptykphysh.xyz]

@_elena @euronews Who would we need to speak to about getting the EU to consider hosting its own Fediverse servers as a service to its citizens, hmm?

[juergen@hello.jyrgi.de]

@_elena
Thanks, if I see the German politician Alice Weidel from the far right party blaming WSocial, then I feel the strong urge to register myself on Wsocial‘s waiting list.
@euronews

[alexafontanilla2024@mastodon.social]

@luca
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
Viral posts claiming the EU is launching its own social media platform to counter X, in the wake of various scandals, are misleading.
Claims are spreading online that the European Union is building its own social media platform to replace X, with posts alleging that a new network called "W" will be funded by taxpayers and run as a censorship tool.

[alexafontanilla2024@mastodon.social]

@luca
Posts, shared widely on X, claim the project is backed by Brussels, financed by taxpayers' money and designed to impose EU oversight on online speech.

One post, viewed more than 60,000 times, claims that "500 million of our tax money will be spent on a censorship system in which everything is checked, corrected and eliminated".

Another, with more than 570,000 views, claims that the European Union "is releasing W".

[alexafontanilla2024@mastodon.social]

@luca
But a spokesperson for the European Commission told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, that the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform, and that there is currently no EU-backed project called "W".

[invinnieveritas@theforkiverse.com]

@_elena @renef

"Mastadon" 🐘 The mental image of journalists frantically googling this mythical beast instead of the actual platform 😂

The worst part? We only notice when it's something we know about. Makes you wonder what else they're getting completely wrong in every other section of the news.

[luca@sironi.xyz]

@AlexaFontanilla2024

I know, and as I said, official communications coming from W were frankly ambiguous in this.
They let the disinformation spread and adjusted their web site a bit too late.

[77nn@goto.77nn.it]

@_elena @euronews

Yeah, it looked weird that there was no trace of news on financing except on two or three sites. I wonder who extracted value from building this tale, besides free advertising for the yet-to-be platform.

Anyways what was told about their paradigm still holds its value, and we all are now "en garde".