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Open source technology is at the very heart of our digital strategy.

We've chosen the EUROPA consortium to develop a highly advanced, open language model that spans all 24 official EU languages.

We are proud to support transparent digital tools that remain freely available to researchers, creators, and public institutions in all EU countries.

Open technology benefits everyone.

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Stewart X Addison 2d ago

@EUCommission How does that open source strategy fit in with your recent active promotion of W social?

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Sisyphe Heureux

@sxa @EUCommission
I'm with @jmaris on this one. The EU moves in the right direction by promoting open source. But that doesn't mean everything will be open source from now on.
Mastodon appeals to a certain kind of user. We're more principled than the average X user and feel at home here.
But others quickly turned away from Mastodon. Giving them a European alternative like W Social, fills the gap between Mastodon and American Social Media, because it'll be more privacy focused than the latter.

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Stewart X Addison 1d ago

@sisypheheureux Agreed (mostly [*]) - which is another reason why I personally feel Mastodon probably isn't the right audience to be actively pushing their #wsocial presence to ;-) It dilutes the good messages that many of the people on here are likely to want to hear from them.

[*] - The ID requirement still makes me nervous though from a privacy perspective though and is why I'd personally struggle to recommend it.