#wsocial — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wsocial, aggregated by home.social.
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Super interessant und unterhaltsam, vielen Dank.
#wsocial kannte ich noch nicht. Infos dazu z.B. hier: https://netzpolitik.org/2026/soziale-netzwerke-warum-w-social-mehr-kalter-kaffee-als-heisser-scheiss-ist/
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Was von #wsocial
hier zu #Bluesky herüberschwappt, erscheint mir reichlich toxisch zu sein. Vergleichbar mit X.
Also passt bitte auf euch auf ..! 😄
Watch Out We Have A -
Was von #wsocial
hier zu #Bluesky herüberschwappt, erscheint mir reichlich toxisch zu sein. Vergleichbar mit X.
Also passt bitte auf euch auf ..! 😄
Watch Out We Have A -
Als Tiger gestartet (wenn die politische Unterstützung durch von der Leyen nicht auch ein Fake war) und nun als Bettvorleger gelandet.
Eine abgestandene Jauche aus Nazi-Posts und Fake-Followern.
Braucht das wer?
Im verlinkten Artikel steht W Social sei ein "Trittbrettfahrer der digitalen Souveränität".
Sehr treffend.
Das Fediverse existiert und es braucht keinen weiteren Aufguss des proprietären walled garden Bluesky.
https://www.metacheles.de/w-social-netzwerk-fake-zahlen-rassismus-und-totenstille/
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Als Tiger gestartet (wenn die politische Unterstützung durch von der Leyen nicht auch ein Fake war) und nun als Bettvorleger gelandet.
Eine abgestandene Jauche aus Nazi-Posts und Fake-Followern.
Braucht das wer?
Im verlinkten Artikel steht W Social sei ein "Trittbrettfahrer der digitalen Souveränität".
Sehr treffend.
Das Fediverse existiert und es braucht keinen weiteren Aufguss des proprietären walled garden Bluesky.
https://www.metacheles.de/w-social-netzwerk-fake-zahlen-rassismus-und-totenstille/
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Als Tiger gestartet (wenn die politische Unterstützung durch von der Leyen nicht auch ein Fake war) und nun als Bettvorleger gelandet.
Eine abgestandene Jauche aus Nazi-Posts und Fake-Followern.
Braucht das wer?
Im verlinkten Artikel steht W Social sei ein "Trittbrettfahrer der digitalen Souveränität".
Sehr treffend.
Das Fediverse existiert und es braucht keinen weiteren Aufguss des proprietären walled garden Bluesky.
https://www.metacheles.de/w-social-netzwerk-fake-zahlen-rassismus-und-totenstille/
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Als Tiger gestartet (wenn die politische Unterstützung durch von der Leyen nicht auch ein Fake war) und nun als Bettvorleger gelandet.
Eine abgestandene Jauche aus Nazi-Posts und Fake-Followern.
Braucht das wer?
Im verlinkten Artikel steht W Social sei ein "Trittbrettfahrer der digitalen Souveränität".
Sehr treffend.
Das Fediverse existiert und es braucht keinen weiteren Aufguss des proprietären walled garden Bluesky.
https://www.metacheles.de/w-social-netzwerk-fake-zahlen-rassismus-und-totenstille/
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Hej, just got my conformation from the @datenspuren :awesome:
My talk "Every breath you take: Why real name registration is not for a better web but a better surveillance" will be at 18.09.2026 16:00–16:45, Henny-Brenner-Saal see you in Dresden!
And thanks to all the folks organizing the event 💓https://talks.datenspuren.de/ds26/talk/NTAWEX/
#tech #surveillance #wsocial #realnameregistration #klarnamenpflicht #socialmedia #socialnetwork #cybernetics #tescreal -
Hej, just got my conformation from the @datenspuren :awesome:
My talk "Every breath you take: Why real name registration is not for a better web but a better surveillance" will be at 18.09.2026 16:00–16:45, Henny-Brenner-Saal see you in Dresden!
And thanks to all the folks organizing the event 💓https://talks.datenspuren.de/ds26/talk/NTAWEX/
#tech #surveillance #wsocial #realnameregistration #klarnamenpflicht #socialmedia #socialnetwork #cybernetics #tescreal -
Hej, just got my conformation from the @datenspuren :awesome:
My talk "Every breath you take: Why real name registration is not for a better web but a better surveillance" will be at 18.09.2026 16:00–16:45, Henny-Brenner-Saal see you in Dresden!
And thanks to all the folks organizing the event 💓https://talks.datenspuren.de/ds26/talk/NTAWEX/
#tech #surveillance #wsocial #realnameregistration #klarnamenpflicht #socialmedia #socialnetwork #cybernetics #tescreal -
Hej, just got my conformation from the @datenspuren :awesome:
My talk "Every breath you take: Why real name registration is not for a better web but a better surveillance" will be at 18.09.2026 16:00–16:45, Henny-Brenner-Saal see you in Dresden!
And thanks to all the folks organizing the event 💓https://talks.datenspuren.de/ds26/talk/NTAWEX/
#tech #surveillance #wsocial #realnameregistration #klarnamenpflicht #socialmedia #socialnetwork #cybernetics #tescreal -
Hej, just got my conformation from the @datenspuren :awesome:
My talk "Every breath you take: Why real name registration is not for a better web but a better surveillance" will be at 18.09.2026 16:00–16:45, Henny-Brenner-Saal see you in Dresden!
And thanks to all the folks organizing the event 💓https://talks.datenspuren.de/ds26/talk/NTAWEX/
#tech #surveillance #wsocial #realnameregistration #klarnamenpflicht #socialmedia #socialnetwork #cybernetics #tescreal -
If you need a primer on why #Wsocial inviting the AFD—the modern German fascist party—into the Atmosphere is a bad thing (I can't even believe I need to say that in this day and age), check out this summary of what social media is doing for the right wing agenda.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Sj...
Inside The Rise of Germany's N... -
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. This saying is attributed to the famous socialist (and theoretical physicist) Albert Einstein but actually traces back to novelist Rita Mae Brown. I have been thinking about this saying a lot lately. The reason is W Social, which is Europe’s newest self-proclaimed attempt at building a competitor to the dominating US- and China-based social media platforms. In many ways, W Social is a poster child for the push of European companies towards digital sovereignty. And in many ways it demonstrates what is so problematic about digital sovereignty. Aline and I have already written about how digital sovereignty is a breeding ground for nationalism and how the idea of “European alternatives” is reproducing the flawed idea of “good capitalism“: The mistaken idea that European companies are immune to the very dynamics that made Big Tech into what it is. W Social is nothing new regarding both points but it illustrates them so vividly that a closer look is warranted even after the attention to W Social has – for now – mostly dried up."
#SocialMedia #EU #DigitalSovereignty #WSocial #SocialNetworks
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Want an update on the Weekend at Bernie’s clown show that is W Social? No? Me neither, but here we are…
So before we start, let’s recount the whole dystopian raison d’être of these Davosian clowns: to be a EU®opean “alternative to X” that – cue the 1984 theme tune – verifies your identity to ensure that only “real people” are on it (real is what your government says it is).
Now, let’s fast forward to last week, when TikTok set up an account on W Social.
That’s nice, isn’t it? One surveillance capitalist lending their support to another? Kumbaya and all that. The only problem? (spoiler alert), it wasn’t TikTok. (Shocking, I know.)
The account, Identity Verified™ by EU X – sorry, W Social, was a spam account and immediately labelled as such by BlueSky moderators. (Don’t you love a “decentralised” system where a post on an EU server, accessed from another EU server, is moderated by our benevolent Big Brother in Trumpland, by the way? I know it just warms the cockles of my heart. So much sovereignty! But I digress…)
So @_elena calls them out (someone has to while @EUCommission is busy preparing for their honeymoon after expressing their undying devotion to W Social recently on every social platform¹):
https://mu.social/profile/elenarossini.com/post/3mqob7shxks2t
Anna Zeiter – W CEO, Stanford’s own, and ex-eBay executive (such sovereignty) – replies with this absolute zinger:
> “We are just verifying if some [sic] is a human and at least 18 years old. Users are then free to choose their own user name. This (human) user apparently chose the name TikTok.“ (https://mu.social/profile/anna.wsocial.eu/post/3mqoepm7m2k2z)
Read that as many times as you like until it really sinks in.
These incompetent clowns (dangerous competent clowns but incompetent clowns nevertheless) make people go through a ridiculous 13-step identity verification stage² and then… umm… you get to choose whatever identity you want.
🤡🤡🤡
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they’re incompetent. It would be worse if they were competent, given they’re a closed-source venture-capital-funded startup determined to prove your identity.
> “Yes we have a business model, it’s not a philanthropy, we are not a B corp, we actually want to make money.” – Anna Zeiter³
But, what I want to know is this: Why has @EUCommission embraced a proprietary, closed-source, corporate ghost town with 14,300 accounts, 90% of which have not posted even once (in other words, with only 1,259 accounts that have ever posted)⁴ when there is a thriving non-corporate fediverse with millions of active people on it.
Could it have anything to do with identity verification, surveillance, and control?
And if so, why can’t they even get that right?
Looking forward to seeing how long @EUCommission can drag the corpse of W Social around before people realise it’s dead.
Oh, and how does this make the whole “European alternatives” thing look? Not good. Not because there aren’t excellent European alternatives but because the folks at the commission are either too clueless or too corrupt to recognise and support them.
So, yeah, how’s your Monday going?
¹ e.g., https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108, etc.
² https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01KVD55YBYVM3B46ACQTECDMT2
³ https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/ (from the YouTube video that they since deleted. Nice transparency there, clowns.)
⁴ Run this script in Node 18+ to reproduce the numbers from their PDS yourself: https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/wsocial-pds-stats.js Also see https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/ and https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/
#WSocial #EU #sovereignty #socialMedia #socialNetworking #mastodon #fediverse #activityPub #ATProto #startups #EUCommission