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I think they just choose W, because it's the letter before X (former twitter). Apart from the EU leaders and politicians stroking each other egos, I hardly think anyone would be there and it would die out in few years.
Why not go straight to the top with A?
I thought this was a good post on the topic: [W Social is TruthSocial with a European accent.][1] [^1]: https://wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pub/3mokohkfb4224
i wish there was a disclosure about letting LLM write this article
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i wish there was a disclosure about letting LLM write this article
Why, GPTZero states about the main text: "We are highly confident this text is entirely human"
"They quietly updated their messaging to praise the protocol once the story was already out."
"Two closed platforms. Two open source projects. Two cases of building on community infrastructure while obscuring that fact for as long as possible."
"Then, with no announcement and no explanation, the repository was deleted. Not deprecated. Not redirected. Deleted."
"These are not the same politics."
"None of that makes W Social evil. It does however make the "this is for the people" framing worth scrutinising."
"Davos doesn't mean grassroots. W Social is what happens when the establishment decides again that it wants its own internet: it finds the nearest community-built toolkit, rebrands it, performs openness long enough to land institutional credibility, then closes the door. The users become the product. The community becomes the unpaid resource. The mission statement becomes the marketing."
"The Ideology Is Different. The Structure Isn't."
"Why This Matters Right Now"
> Europe already has an ATproto social network - Eurosky - run by a non-profit foundation - Modal - that is building everything in the open, with full transparency, sharing all the steps in their development roadmap: And weirdly, there was never a peep about this in the press - while the W Social launch was on national news and a bunch of high-profile EU politicians immediately joined. What's going on here?
They want people to get used to digital id.
Left right center: every politician is aligned on trying to put the Declaration of Indepdence of Cyberspace out for good. They all want to end un-attributed speech. In the US that means KOSA, and once again, bipartisan agreement comes only for screwing over speech, rights, freedom, and the citizenry. https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/house-kosa/
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> any of them > all of them That is the problem. The paradox of choice stiffles adoption for Mastodon for the regular user and pushes them away. Choosing the main instance goes against the whole point of Mastodon for federation. There was even a time Mastodon wanted to promote other federated instances by closing off the main instance, it failed. You might as well use Bluesky or Threads and be done with it.
It's true, same goes for e-mail host, just so many options to choose from! /s
I mean of course I have to choose an instance! That’s called a market. People have been lobotomized to prioritize monopolies.
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Why, GPTZero states about the main text: "We are highly confident this text is entirely human"
from the text: "They quietly updated their messaging to praise the protocol once the story was already out." "Two closed platforms. Two open source projects. Two cases of building on community infrastructure while obscuring that fact for as long as possible." "Then, with no announcement and no explanation, the repository was deleted. Not deprecated. Not redirected. Deleted." "These are not the same politics." "None o…