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bossito@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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    will require identification and photo validation

    With all the privacy issues in the past few years, it’s “dead on arrival” as they say.

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      Yup. It will fail spectacularly.

      Too bad cuz it could have legit beaten Xitter.

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        If distributing child pornography can’t get people off Xitter, nothing will.

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        It will probably fail silently, if it doesn’t pick up enough momentum. * Sad failed platform noises *

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      W formerly known as useless garbage nobody asked for.

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      Any for-profit company will have to comply with this, unfortunately.

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        But none of them ever asked me for a photo or ID.

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          Are you in the EU?

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            Yes of course.

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