Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?

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blog.elenarossini.com/w-social

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@jalefkowit

This is reaching too far into conspiracy theory.

Sounds like W Social simply offers government more chance for, well, governance than something like Mastodon would.

No need to look for drama or personalities. Government wants to govern.

@humanhorseshoes You don't believe governments kind of like to have control over our communication platforms?

@jalefkowit

@volkris @jalefkowit I think you mixed up government and governance, related but not the same

@humanhorseshoes

Definitely not the same, but no, I didn't mix them up.

Control is at the core of government. Without some level of control a government is just a group of people talking to themselves.

So it sounds like this W Social offers government more opportunity for control, consistent with what they'd want.

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