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The guy who runs W Social, whilst he has a software developer background, has worked most of his time in the financial world. W social is also an LLC. It's a co
by mortarion 4mo ago
The guy who runs W Social, whilst he has a software developer background, has worked most of his time in the financial world. W social is also an LLC. It's a corporation with shares looking to make a profit somehow. No doubt there will be ads on there, and paid features.
I don't see how this will ever become a success, not because it's going closed source (people here don't care), or because it might have paid features (people here don't care) in the future, or even ands (people here don't care), but because of the name. Who the hell thought "W Social" was a good name for a company?
We are so bad at company names here in the EU it's embarrassing.
- RobotToaster 4mo agoMaybe they just chose the letter before X?
- georgemcbay 4mo agoThis thread is the first time I've even heard of "W Social" so I have no specific insight into their naming, but I'd assume it comes from (gaming/lifestyle) streaming culture where "chatters" will often say "W <thing>" (good, win) or "L <thing>" (bad, lose) as short-form feedback on how they feel about <thing>.
- tao_oat 4mo agoThis would make sense but seems unlikely to me, because the people involved come across as incredibly offline.
- malmz 4mo agoW Social is a Swedish company and therefore not an LLC. It is an Aktiebolag (AB), it is closer to a Corporation (Inc). Still for profit but not necessarily evil, just the most common business type in Sweden.
- sajithdilshan 4mo agoI think they just choose W, because it's the letter before X (former twitter). Apart from the EU leaders and politicians stroking each other egos, I hardly think anyone would be there and it would die out in few years.
- throwaway85825 4mo agoIt will serve it's primary purpose of separating criticism from direct association with EU politicians posts. They also hate community notes.
- bolbishvili 4mo agowe need a Y social that's just a static website encouraging us to go outside.
- CM30 4mo agoGiven how bad X was as a company/product name, basing your own company name off that certainly seems like an interesting choice. X at least has the fact it's rebranded Twitter bringing in attention.
- misfitgentleman 3mo agoWhy not go straight to the top with A?
- sajithdilshan 3mo agothat would be then A-Social network. In German that would be kind of pronounced as asocial and that's a term used to call people that are anti-social in a negative manner
- hackerbeat 4mo agoYeah, terrible name indeed.
- NonHyloMorph 4mo agoHaha. uvWXyz .still bad, agreed. Also if you somewhat fluent in german: "vögeln" as replacement for twitter with a dating platform twist.