#wsocial — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wsocial, aggregated by home.social.
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I'm so disgusted they refused to credit Eli's hard work. If it wasn't him posting about the collab, we would discover only when trying to log in to comment during the stream. Which is not that surprising, it's basically the same behavior as when they announced W at Davos without mentioning the fediverse or saying they were using atproto, we had to discover that ourselves.
May this be a clear lesson to other atproto devs not to trust them.
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@ArneBab @vgrass @andre_meister Ohne Identifizierung nicht einmal lesender Zugriff, da würde es bei #WSocial aber auch gleich zappenduster werden.
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To become independent from X, @EUCommission is betting on … #WSocial, a sort of revamped BlueSky with exactly 3388 users with at least one post.
@elena is trying to alert people about this comical disaster:
https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/Which is now even more nonsensical as they inadvertently invented BoratCasting !
https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01M2MQXYZ177XDMX349PBFG7Z2
#WBoratCasting Is Very Nice European Technology for Make Benefits Glorious Nations of Brussels!
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@andre_meister @fdroidorg @debian Dann wird wohl auch #Wsocial die Möglichkeit, ohne Account mitlesen und liken zu können, abschaffen müssen.
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Another day, another opportunity to roast #WSocial. Grab your 🍿
W Social had been hyping up the live broadcast of Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union address for weeks.
"Watch it on W!" (You'd think they had an exclusive). Nah, it was also shown live on YouTube and X and other places.
The funniest thing is that co-founder Ingmar Rentzhog bragged in the live chat: "we are doing our best. The boradcast (sic) is truly Made in Europe."
You'd think they had built their own live streaming service. Think again: they used stream.place by Eli Mallon, an ATproto developer based in Seattle. Last time I checked, Seattle is in Washington state? U.S.A.? W, the social network of European digital sovereignty!
So I put Rentzhog on the spot and he became all defensive:
🔗: https://mu.social/profile/elenarossini.com/post/3mvmmu5gua225
But it gets better!
W Social had been bragging that only verified W users could comment in the live chat.
Yesterday I found out that people with a blue checkmark by Bluesky could also comment.
And I have one!
It all went by really fast... At the end of the event I made sure to credit Eli Mallon and stream.place for powering the live stream. If W Social wouldn't do it, well, I would.
I find it incredible that their modus operandi is to exploit open source infrastructure, giving the impression they built everything from scratch, without ever crediting anyone.
#LSocial = Leech Social.
The open social web is a highly collaborative space and it pains me to see the parasitic behavior of certain players who just take, take, take without ever giving anything back.
The @EUCommission was in the live chat. Von der Leyen took time out from G7 meetings in June to publicize the W Social launch.
I strongly believe they picked the wrong platform, which is openwashing and sovereignwashing. I typically do not tag the EC Mastodon account in posts about W, but this time it's important. (Apologies in advance to their social media interns, I know these choices were not made by you.)
We deserve better platforms.
I will keep speaking up about W Social, the black flamingo of the open social web.
And if you disagree with what they are doing, please speak up too. W Social leaders have started resorting to ad hominem attacks, calling my posts and articles "targeted disinformation."
At first I was a lonely voice of dissent against them. Then @pallenberg joined in. My wish: from a solo, to a duet, to a whole chorus of voices speaking up ⚡
And if you want to catch up on all the W Social red flags, I wrote a series of blog posts about them:
https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/
(start at the bottom)
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@sebmeineck/117275681303292353
In dem Zusammenhang mal eine Frage: Hat Ursula von der Leyen eigentlich ihren Ausweis gebraucht um ihren Bluesky Account zu #wsocial zu schieben?
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#wsocial biedert sich bei Rechtsextremisten in Europa an und möchte zeitgleich die europäische Antwort auf X & Co sein.
X hingegen ist das Baby von Faschist Elon Musk und für Rechtsextreme heute eine offene Spielwiese des Hasses.
Wenn W-Social sich anschickt, dort anzudocken, kann es für die öffentliche Meinung und die Wahrnehmung von Fakten versus Fakenews/Desinformation gefährlich werden.
Der Dienst wird derzeit wohl offiziell von der Europäischen Union unterstützt und das ist der eigentliche Kracher ... -
#wsocial openly welcomes and supports FASCISTS like the German far-right AfD!!!!
Do they receive European taxpayer money, Frau von der Leyen ..?!😳😡🤮🇪🇺
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RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:caoilfvxiz7muekci2df4xpd/post/3mte56fldk22q -
1/3 Was ich am Auftritt von #Zeiter, CEO von #Wsocial beim #WDR bemerkenswert fand: 1. ich fühlte mich unangenehm an das ständige Erwähnen von #Instagram im #ÖRR erinnert, das Zuhörende dazu nudged, Promi Soundso bei Tinderglam zu folgen, 2. Zeiter ist Juristin und CEO und weiß anscheinend nicht, ob 10 oder 20 Co-Founder hinter W stecken (oder hat diese Infos zu verbergen), 3. stellt Verortung des Unternehmens in Schweden als Vorteil dar, obwohl jedes Kind weiß, wie assich #Spotify ist...
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@benroyce @pallenberg #WSocial doesn't even need inflated fake numbers to "present a glowing, false narrative."
Media organizations DO NOT fact check their claims.
The European Commission didn't do any due diligence on the tech side.
How do I know?
W Social CEO Anna Zeiter claimed on the major German TV network SWR on May 28th that they had been onboarding 1000 users a day to prevent a server crash when they'd launch on June 17th. She boasted they had a waitlist of 50,000 users then: https://www.swr.de/swr1/leute/neue-social-media-plattform-w-social-das-steckt-dahinter-100.html
How many users were on their PDS on June 17th then? After allegedly onboarding 1000 a day since late May?
Only 423!
I know, I download their whole PDS every day.
Why do I say the European Commission didn't do any technical due diligence?
W Identity, the app required to verify one's identity and post on W Social has terrible reviews. 1.1 star average out of 5 stars on the German Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.widentity.app&hl=de
I COME WITH RECEIPTS!
And these people have a habit of misrepresenting their company... but media organizations and politicians just happily follow along...
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These numbers for W Social are laughable.
When prominent EU officials started hyping this platform, I was very curious because I basically trusted the European Commission.
I was surprised that Mastodon was not mentioned, which further piqued my interest.
And now, months later, they only have 3,388 Users with more than a single post? 70% who do not follow anybody?
What a total embarrassment for the European Commission.
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#WSocial state of the network - September 15th, 2026
There is a lot of misinformation regarding W Social and how active/successful it is. So, from time to time, I'd love to share some numbers. The beauty of #opendata!
The network endorsed by the #EuropeanCommission may be the darling of Brussels political circles and European media organizations (who simply rehash PR talking points). But the look behind the curtain is really troubling.
As @pallenberg often says, this network is #DOA (dead on arrival). A social media graveyard, or rather, a simple moribund database.
There is no way that Zeiter, Rentzhog & co. can start monetizing it in 2027.
Numbers from this morning at 10:30am:
- Accounts on their PDS: 37,531
- Users with verified ID: 7,492
- Users with 1+ post: 3,388
- Users who have never posted: 34,143
- Users with 0 posts and who follow 0 accounts: 26,444
- % of users with 0 posts, who follow 0 accounts: 70,4%
- % of users who have never posted: 90,97%
So, whenever you hear someone hyping it up, feel free to forward this post or point people to my articles at https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/
The one thing I will give W credit for though is how good they are at lobbying and hyping up their image.
While this playbook may have worked in the past, not anymore. On an open network, with open data, it's child's play to expose misrepresentations and show the real, raw data.
sources: pdsls.dev, clearsky.app, atproto.at and the csv of their full PDS that I download daily 💁♀️
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@thisislieven yes, definitely. #WSocial has been hyping the SOTEU livestream: "watch it on W!" ... and then yesterday I found out it's being broadcast everywhere online... YouTube too 😂 🤡