Mastodawn

#wsocial was announcing a top-down approach to get their #network working & they are doing it

In the #Blick article #AnnaZeiter explains why #AliceWeidel & other #Nazis are welcome to her #socialmedia #platform https://www.blick.ch/digital/anna-zeiter-bringt-twitter-alternative-w-social-auch-alice-weidel-ist-willkommen-id22026157.html

wSocial tries to become a new #Tech #empire by pulling on their personal networks & riding the problematic term of #European #Sovereignty

#Lobbying the #rich & #powerful seems to pay out in the #EuropeanUnion ¯\(°_o)/¯

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Gilgwath 2d ago

@Katika A part of me is wondering why they need to build yet another closed garden instead of joining the Fediverse. On the other hand, we do perfectly fine without them. It's just gonna be another BlueSky, but run by European sycophants to the rich and powerful rather than US ones. Different lipstick, same pig.

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Patric 2d ago

@gilgwath
Because above all they want to make money. Unfortunately it seems to be as simple as that.

Having verified people and potentially selling their information helps with that.
@_elena has done some research as well: https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/

@Katika

The Untold Story About W Social: Unconventional Beginnings, Strategic Pitches and Conflicting Signals

A deep dive into the origin story of W Social, an analysis of the strategic arguments they have been using to appeal to government officials, media companies and advertisers... and the discussion of conflicting signals they have been sending

Elena Rossini

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Katika Kühnreich

@zollak
Absolutely!
@gilgwath And yes! @_elena work is great and I will keep on boosting it :)