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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 -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@pallenberg/117231100862265620
W Social verkauft sich als demokratische europäische X-Alternative – und rollt gleichzeitig genau den falschen Leuten den Teppich aus: Weidel willkommen, Sellner-Content gefeiert, rechte Netzwerke inklusive.
Saschas Podcast dazu ist sehr hörenswert: sauber recherchiert, verständlich erklärt und gerade deshalb ziemlich entlarvend.
#WSocial #AfD #Rechtsextremismus #Demokratie #SocialMedia #Medienkompetenz
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@pallenberg/117231100862265620
W Social verkauft sich als demokratische europäische X-Alternative – und rollt gleichzeitig genau den falschen Leuten den Teppich aus: Weidel willkommen, Sellner-Content gefeiert, rechte Netzwerke inklusive.
Saschas Podcast dazu ist sehr hörenswert: sauber recherchiert, verständlich erklärt und gerade deshalb ziemlich entlarvend.
#WSocial #AfD #Rechtsextremismus #Demokratie #SocialMedia #Medienkompetenz
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@pallenberg/117231100862265620
W Social verkauft sich als demokratische europäische X-Alternative – und rollt gleichzeitig genau den falschen Leuten den Teppich aus: Weidel willkommen, Sellner-Content gefeiert, rechte Netzwerke inklusive.
Saschas Podcast dazu ist sehr hörenswert: sauber recherchiert, verständlich erklärt und gerade deshalb ziemlich entlarvend.
#WSocial #AfD #Rechtsextremismus #Demokratie #SocialMedia #Medienkompetenz
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@pallenberg/117231100862265620
W Social verkauft sich als demokratische europäische X-Alternative – und rollt gleichzeitig genau den falschen Leuten den Teppich aus: Weidel willkommen, Sellner-Content gefeiert, rechte Netzwerke inklusive.
Saschas Podcast dazu ist sehr hörenswert: sauber recherchiert, verständlich erklärt und gerade deshalb ziemlich entlarvend.
#WSocial #AfD #Rechtsextremismus #Demokratie #SocialMedia #Medienkompetenz
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@pallenberg/117231100862265620
W Social verkauft sich als demokratische europäische X-Alternative – und rollt gleichzeitig genau den falschen Leuten den Teppich aus: Weidel willkommen, Sellner-Content gefeiert, rechte Netzwerke inklusive.
Saschas Podcast dazu ist sehr hörenswert: sauber recherchiert, verständlich erklärt und gerade deshalb ziemlich entlarvend.
#WSocial #AfD #Rechtsextremismus #Demokratie #SocialMedia #Medienkompetenz
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Grosse Freude bei #Wsocial & denn schliesslich hat in #sachsenanhalt gestern die rechtsextreme #AfD gewonnen, deren Chefin Anna Zeiter, CEO von Wsocial, so gerne auf ihrem Netzwerk haette.
Mein Kommentar zu dem wohl gruseligsten Social Network Europas 👉 https://www.metacheles.de/w-social-netzwerk-fake-zahlen-rassismus-und-totenstille/
Bitte boosten & die eigene Blase aufklaeren .
Danke fuer euren Support🙏
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Grosse Freude bei #Wsocial & denn schliesslich hat in #sachsenanhalt gestern die rechtsextreme #AfD gewonnen, deren Chefin Anna Zeiter, CEO von Wsocial, so gerne auf ihrem Netzwerk haette.
Mein Kommentar zu dem wohl gruseligsten Social Network Europas 👉 https://www.metacheles.de/w-social-netzwerk-fake-zahlen-rassismus-und-totenstille/
Bitte boosten & die eigene Blase aufklaeren .
Danke fuer euren Support🙏
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Grosse Freude bei #Wsocial & denn schliesslich hat in #sachsenanhalt gestern die rechtsextreme #AfD gewonnen, deren Chefin Anna Zeiter, CEO von Wsocial, so gerne auf ihrem Netzwerk haette.
Mein Kommentar zu dem wohl gruseligsten Social Network Europas 👉 https://www.metacheles.de/w-social-netzwerk-fake-zahlen-rassismus-und-totenstille/
Bitte boosten & die eigene Blase aufklaeren .
Danke fuer euren Support🙏
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Grosse Freude bei #Wsocial & denn schliesslich hat in #sachsenanhalt gestern die rechtsextreme #AfD gewonnen, deren Chefin Anna Zeiter, CEO von Wsocial, so gerne auf ihrem Netzwerk haette.
Mein Kommentar zu dem wohl gruseligsten Social Network Europas 👉 https://www.metacheles.de/w-social-netzwerk-fake-zahlen-rassismus-und-totenstille/
Bitte boosten & die eigene Blase aufklaeren .
Danke fuer euren Support🙏
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Grosse Freude bei #Wsocial & denn schliesslich hat in #sachsenanhalt gestern die rechtsextreme #AfD gewonnen, deren Chefin Anna Zeiter, CEO von Wsocial, so gerne auf ihrem Netzwerk haette.
Mein Kommentar zu dem wohl gruseligsten Social Network Europas 👉 https://www.metacheles.de/w-social-netzwerk-fake-zahlen-rassismus-und-totenstille/
Bitte boosten & die eigene Blase aufklaeren .
Danke fuer euren Support🙏
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 4 September, 2026
Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-4-september-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 21 August, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-21-august-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 21 August, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-21-august-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 21 August, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-21-august-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 21 August, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-21-august-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 21 August, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-21-august-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 14 August, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-14-august-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 24 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-24-july-2026/
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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
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 3 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and open social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-3-july-2026/
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@lupo
Wer grundsätzlich gut findet, was in der EU läuft, weil EU einen positiven Wert darstellt, findet wahrscheinlich auch FRONTEX gut. Aber den Kommentaren ist abzulesen, dass die politische Vorgabe USA = böse / EU= gut von den nationalistischen Untertanen gut angenommen wird. -
@lupo
Wer grundsätzlich gut findet, was in der EU läuft, weil EU einen positiven Wert darstellt, findet wahrscheinlich auch FRONTEX gut. Aber den Kommentaren ist abzulesen, dass die politische Vorgabe USA = böse / EU= gut von den nationalistischen Untertanen gut angenommen wird. -
With so many people scrolling social media daily for hours, each platform could implement a timer at the top of the feed.
#socialmedia #socialapp #design #mentalhealth #healthylifestyle #selfcare #mindfulness #touchgrass #humandesign #uxdesign #mobileapp #mobiledesign #bsky #wsocial