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xg15yesterday at 2:09 PM4 repliesview on HN

> 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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maelitoyesterday at 2:16 PM

It means that marketers won over technical, factual people.

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RobotToasteryesterday at 3:34 PM

Mastodon is also European

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jasonvorheyesterday at 10:47 PM

They want people to get used to digital id.

AndrewKemendotoday at 3:41 PM

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

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