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There is no future in social media unless it’s decentralized. Gonna assume this is dead on arrival.
Uh, Mastodon exists?
I’m assuming they want to compete with X/Twitter.
… so you don’t think Mastodon is a worthy competitor?
How about Bluesky?
will require identification and photo validation
With all the privacy issues in the past few years, it’s “dead on arrival” as they say.
W formerly known as useless garbage nobody asked for.
Yup. It will fail spectacularly.
Too bad cuz it could have legit beaten Xitter.
It will probably fail silently, if it doesn’t pick up enough momentum. * Sad failed platform noises *
If distributing child pornography can’t get people off Xitter, nothing will.
Any for-profit company will have to comply with this, unfortunately.
But none of them ever asked me for a photo or ID.
Are you in the EU?
Nah , pub is better ,talking to real persons
will require identification and photo validation
Straight from the book “How to kill your app before launch”, page 1.
data privacy at its core
Looks like they haven’t seen the obvious conflict with requiring id + photo, unless they plan on manually review every application.
After reading the article, it sounds like they’re just making yet another xitter clone with the hopes that govt figures will use it. Govts could just spin their own mastodon or similars for a similar effect.
Considering the amount of bots and trolls everywhere I can see a certain appeal on an app that requires an id verification to be honest.
But if they’re doing it half-assed as most services (send photo of passport, take a selfie), it won’t be a challenge for AI to generate random IDs and a matching avatar for photo/video verification. The only way this could work is if they’d verify your ID by reading the NFC chip inside the passport or ID card.
True. I’d be up for that, but honestly more for a real social network for friends and family, like Facebook once was, than for a debate forum like Twitter. That demand could maybe endure that it would remain a friends only network…
Yup. Nothing and I say nothing makes a service less secure for privacy than requiring your ID and photo. That data will get leaked. It always does.
Should’ve named it Y or Z. You know, like +1…
cough cough Mastodon.
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
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It has over 3k posts and 145k followers. Mastodon posts don’t federate to lemmy unless they tag a lemmy community
I stand corrected. Thank you.
I know Europe might seem like a country of you’re illiterate, but um it isn’t. W is a Swedish company with a dumb idea at the core of its app
Oh sorry, I forgot Sweden is in Africa. Or that referring to an app as European implies that Europe is a country. Luckily there are still people like you to educate us all /s
I genuinely thought this was an Onion post.
Anna Zeiter, CEO of W, has told Bilanz.ch that W stands for “We.” Meanwhile, the first of the Vs that make up W stands for “Values,” and the second for “Verified.”
“The fact that W comes before X in the alphabet is certainly also a welcome coincidence,” Zeiter said.
Was curious if the”W” had a deeper meaning to it. Turns out it’s actually two V’s that form a “W”
you mean it doesn’t stand for Wumbo?
Digital Voyeurist Values Verified
Stupid name, vv, or vave would’ve been better. Besides, it’s not like they’ll register v.v as a domain, or even www.w.vv
Should just have said it stands for Wordfeud, which would be commical.
Should’ve called it Z. Is just as good as X. In fact, is two better.
Y tho
*Comrade has entered the chat*
only Ws in the chat, guys 😎
Checkmate, Elon Musk.
We are?
Hold my hand and let’s say yes together.
