Good morning Fedi friends!

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

@_elena @MediaActivist Good shout. With venture capital funded startups you only have power at one point in their lifecycle: at the very start when they haven’t scaled yet and don’t yet have network effects. If you can kill their growth curve then, you can kill the startup. If, however, you “give them the benefit of the doubt” so they can use their initial cash injection to scale and achieve network effects, they’re set. They become another Facebook, X, etc. And they remain.

[luca@sironi.xyz]

@_elena

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.

Full crowds

[mediaactivist@todon.eu]

@aral @_elena That's a brilliant point.

[anders_s@mastodon.nu]

@doktorzjivago @_elena Better look at my english language Mastodon-account. @AnderstS. I've written a post on my blog about the persons and companies behind W Social. In swedish though but easily translated.
https://blog.zaramis.se/2026/01/24/personerna-bakom-w-social-vill-tjana-pengar/

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

@MediaActivist @_elena I go into more detail in my older talks, e.g., this one from six years ago: Ethical Technology or Feudalism?

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FsF4sdMPYas

[mediaactivist@todon.eu]

@aral @_elena This looks great, thanks - I have it opened ready to watch later!

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

@MediaActivist @_elena 💕

[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@_elena place 4️⃣ in the (non personalized) Google search results for "WSocial" (at least from Germany). You did a great job! 😈

@hpod16

[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@_elena also, https://stage.wsocial.eu is a HUUUGE joke (but a bad one!)

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@aral @MediaActivist same, watching later today 🙏

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@BrennpunktUA @hpod16 ooooh that’s amazing! I should put my SEO skills to good use with the URL I just grabbed :)

[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@_elena 🛐🙏

@hpod16