European X/Twitter Alternative W Announced at Davos

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Europe is set to launch a new X alternative called "W."

Unveiled at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the CEO says that "W" stand for "We" and the two Vs combined represent "Values" and "Verified. In that vein, the platform promises to verify all user with photo ID to prevent bots and all data will be hosted in Europe in a decentralized way.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/01/23/european-x-twitter-alternative-w-announced-at-davos
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Anyone want to bet on this being a mastodon fork? I’ll place $20 on it.

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No thanks.

You really has to be stupid to use “we”. If you are a climate activist.

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Suprise suprise. We already have a European alternative: Mastodon. Bye.

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https://wsocial.eu/ for those curious

Linked Pre Launch Privacy Notice is usual corporate boilerplate

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Unfortunately, that will be a complete joke. We Europeans have almost no development capacity and a huge bureaucracy. There is hardly any innovation.

Unfortunately, that’s the way it is.

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“We don’t want it to be Weibo. We want it to be L’ouibo!”

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It sounds more like Linkedin to me, if you have to be ID verified to use a social media platform, it becomes a self marketing tool, not really socialising tool.

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European WeChat. Can’t wait!

:confetti_ball: :partying_face: :tada:

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First social media to have zero (0) users

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Wsocial might become to Eurocrats what Truth Social is to Trumpists. Either way, nothing a normal person would ever want to use.

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Twitter is not better than W or Wechat. Same centralized slave tech. By the way, the tech for EU’s W already exists, it’s called Worldcoin.

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Finally, we have Wumbo Chat.

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Interesting… The founder is from a non-EU country. And giving a non-EU commercial company a copy of my passport? I think not.

But… we already have a popular, privacy focused EU X alternative! www.flashtu.be - What’s wrong with that?