> 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?

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RobotToaster 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Mastodon is also European

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maelito 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It means that marketers won over technical, factual people.

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oytis 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not marketers, lobbyists

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pocksuppet an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Probably marketers in this one. Marketers who know how to access politicians adn get invited to WEF.

The distinction: marketers know how to trick people, lobbyists bribe them.

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oytis an hour ago | parent [-]

That's not lobbyism, that's straight corruption. Lobbyism is, at least in theory, about convincing politicians

	▲	pocksuppet 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		In practice it's about bribing them or at least telling them personal gains. Like if you tell a politician he should support the war on Iran because he owns lots of oil stocks and they'll go up. Marketing is telling a politician this app is the future of EU social chat so you need to be using it.

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rapnie 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Both? But yea, if you see the Advisory Board shown in an image lower in the article, you get the general idea.

	▲	oytis 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Obama making an account on Twitter is a marketers' success. Twitter became popular first, politicians wanted to appear there second. WSocial just went to politicians directly,it's not known by general public. Good news is, it rarely helps with commercial success

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xg15 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The marketers or the so far unnamed private investors.