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  • Elena Rossini 🌈_elena@mastodon.social
    Oct 20, 2026, 8:12 AM

    Maybe #WSocial is a secret project by Big Tech to stop me and other activists from promoting the open social web... distracting us with daily rage bait instead.

    Incredibly, the W Social folks are boasting that they received an innovation award at a glitzy ceremony (the award was just created, its website went live last week).

    If you didn't know, W Social grabbed the ATproto codebase (developed by Bluesky PBC) and quietly went closed-source, à la Truth Social.

    Enough with these 🤡 for today

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  • Elena Rossini 🌈_elena@mastodon.social
    Oct 20, 2026, 8:23 AM

    @david a ghost town yes, but populated by POWERFUL accounts like the European Commission, the European Parliament, Christine Lagarde, Ursula von der Leyen, Roberta Metsola... even writer Anne Applebaum is on there!!! This is precisely why I keep the pressure on them, dispelling myths and uncovering every technical mishap they have (they are MANY)

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  • PepijnPepijn@mastodon.online
    Oct 20, 2026, 8:29 AM

    @_elena To me the fact our public bodies like @EUCommission and the European Parliament (who at the same time decided not to set up shop on Mastodon / Fediverse, a place where European citizens actually are) set up shop on an absolutely unimportant commercial platform like W-Social still feels like a corruption scandal in the making.

    I'm glad you continue to report on it.

    @david

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  • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:onepict@chaos.social
    Oct 20, 2026, 10:45 AM

    @_elena @david I'm reminded of how what3words initially utilised their founders contacts in music and then started to shove itself everywhere in the emergency services. To the point of ITV (UK television) gave them free advertising and also showcased them unofficially in Emmerdale (a soap opera)

    I do wonder if there's more digging to do into the wider networks of w founders. Is it just that they flattered the EU so much at Davos, or does there need to be more scrutiny to see who else wants w?

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  • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:onepict@chaos.social
    Oct 20, 2026, 10:47 AM

    @_elena @david With the focus on age verification and the data associated with that, we do need to consider who within the various agencies like Europol would like that.

    Because it's being pushed so hard.

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  • David Ginndavid@social.piconet.work
    Oct 20, 2026, 11:15 AM

    @onepict @_elena I have no doubt they want to connect posts to people for monitoring purposes. Whether its their primary focus or a byproduct of something else, its still worrying because it feels like criticism is being logged for later "use".

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  • Carsten Frankecarstenfranke@mastodon.social
    Oct 20, 2026, 8:20 AM

    @_elena yes! Let's focus on promoting and improving the fediverse. Let's pull in and promote interesting people and make sure they see us as an interesting audience.

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