📝 #WSocial state of the network 📣
for those who are curious about it, considering the enthusiastic endorsement by prestigious European institutions.
#OpenData allows me to crunch numbers (information about Bluesky PDSs is readily available).
On day 18 since its beta launch in Brussels, W Social has 7935 accounts:
- 90,5% have never* published a single post
- 82,2% have 0 followers
- 78% follow 0 accounts
(may be related to #WIdentity and its 13-step process)
LMK if you find this useful
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