Replying to @_elena@mastodon.social
@_elena Thanks for the update Elena.
What i still find utterly baffling is the involvement of top EU politicians right from the start. When WSocial was announced at Davos, only a few presentation slides and probably a "Coming soon" website were available. But instead of waiting for the company to establish at least *some* kind of track record, these politicians jumped right on board. Why? Based on what exactly?
No matter how I try to make sense of this, I fail. Every time.
And the numbers you posted are devastating. No matter what we on the #fediverse think about this project, if it truly fails, the embarrassment will be epic. Not just for the politicians involved, but it also sends such a terrible signal to the rest of the world: "Europe can't do technology".
Argh.
Edit: Grammar