The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be

Worthless garbage. Dont even upvote this shit. Let it die in obscurity.

W’s data will be hosted decentrally in Europe by European companies, and the platform will adhere to strict EU data protection laws.

If it were actually decentral, they wouldnt be able to enforce verification. Best case its just gonna be corpo slop in the style of bluesky without public federation.

The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be

Yeah, that'll work great.

You know that Mastodon is right there and work really well.

Why not just call it Twitter?

With the Chinese Z.ai we are starting to fill out the four horseletters of the apocalypse

The W stands for “[W]e trade with genocidal apartheid states and flout international laws agreed upon since the 1940s so we can have the best comforts possible”.