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FLASH flash@primal.net 5 months ago
⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - The European Union is reportedly preparing to launch “W,” a new social media platform positioned as a direct rival to X, with mandatory human verification for every account in an effort to eliminate bots and coordinated manipulation. W, which will require photo verification of users, was publicly announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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G Force G 5 months ago
I've only really used nostr. I've used nitter in the past for viewing things. I don't care about being on the same centralized system that has network effect.
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Kudzai Kutukwa 5 months ago
I did tell you that 2026 started out on a wild note. First a head of state was arrested by a foreign government, then Bayer sued Pfizer and Moderna for patent infringement of the mRNA tech and now this?! It’s only January guys 😂🤣🤡🌍 View quoted note →
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Kayne kayne@nostrcheck.me 5 months ago
So they made an alternative to twitter that is just as evil as twitter but in a slightly different way... Hopefully both wTwitter and xTwitter both fail.
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Kudzai Kutukwa 5 months ago
Gosh! I hope at least the user experience on this one will be enough to keep them away
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0x80085 🆕 5 months ago
Just a matter of time and incentive before the hUmAn vErIfiCaTioN gets bypassed by bots. On top of that you can't have privacy and that verification bullshit at the same time. This is so ripe for data breaches, imagine what so-called russian hackers could do with a data brrach fill of biometric data of EU politicians. Censorship and 'blocking misinformation' are literally the same thing. Any interesting conversation will get auto-modded, deleted, erased. And the participants will get penalized. Very free speech, much freedoms This is just gonna be the next Threads, an empty dead void full of bots and NPCs.
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FLASH flash@primal.net 5 months ago
⚡👀 WATCH - This is how the social media platform called “W” was presented in Davos at the World Economic Forum. It aims to compete with X and requires mandatory human verification for posts, which will require photo verification of users. “A social media where free speech and privacy are real” View quoted note →
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npub1ah3a...l76e 5 months ago
To me this smells like desperation. EU has no more than 3 years left. Let's start a centralised fuck social media platform. LMAO
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Stacking Functions 5 months ago
Real 'Trust the Science' vibes. Ironically I wonder how many fake accounts the EU will spin up to make it look like they're doing numbers
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test1 5 months ago
The social media for boomers
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House Thrawn thrawn@NostrVerified.com 5 months ago
Naaaàh, man, I'm good with #nostr. I have my web of trust here, no ID required. Keep your EU surveilance away from me. I value my privacy too much for this ... STUFF. image
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House Thrawn thrawn@NostrVerified.com 5 months ago
At some point it will no longer be optional if surveilance works well enough, it will be regulated as amndatory. We will have no freedom of speexh and we'll be happy, or at least I think out overlords are betting on.
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