> 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.
There’s no money or power to be had in providing free/libre tools to the masses
So there’s no chance a politician or marketer or anyone who has commerce as their primary motivation will spend any effort promoting it
It means that marketers won over technical, factual people.