My top 3 "favorite" (aka juicy) discoveries about #WSocial, which I discuss on my blog:

🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/the-unto…

1) The co-founders picked #ATproto but only started using the network WEEKS after their Davos launch

2) The CEO said "we also want to keep European data in Europe to maybe train European AI models with our data because we also have amazing AI companies in Europe" 🤯

3) W Social user "homersimpson"

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#WSocial #AnnaZeiter #ATproto

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A deep dive into #WSocial with some fascinating findings: candid statements about their motives, a Greta Thunberg connection, potential AI plans (!!!)

Why write about it again? I still had so many questions after publishing my first article.

I spent 3 weeks watching every interview I could find and connecting the dots.

I hope you'll enjoy this piece:

🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/the-unto…

#blog #longread #privacy #DataMining #Europe

#AskFedi:

If an app on Google's Play Store says it may share with third parties your "Name, email address, user ID and other info" for the purposes of "App functionality, Fraud prevention, security, and compliance, Account management" as well as your messages and your approximate location... could the data be used for ad targeting?

Even if the company says that the app in question is only to verify your identity and is separate from the other app it's verifying your identity for? And it says it's complying with European laws?

This is a toot about #WIdentity and #WSocial

🔗​: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Dear Fedi friends,
You know how grateful I am for your help and expertise. I have a burning question and I know some of you may have the correct answer.

Long story short, I had been doing a deep dive into #WSocial. My exposé published on Friday got 830 retweets!

I am working on a follow-up piece and there's something I don't understand.

The homepage of W Social is now redirecting - from wsocial.eu to wsocial.news

If I put wsocial.news in WHOIS databases, I'm finding very little information about when it was registered. And there's some odd stuff, like showing an IP address in Washington DC - but they are very adamant of being hosted in Europe... and they use bunny.net (Slovenia). What gives?

#AskFedi #DNS #WhoIs

Très intéressant article de Elena Rossini, à propos de W, dont vous avez peut être entendu parler lors du dernier forum de Davos.

Tout s'éclaire. Bravo et merci Elena.

#WSocial
#BlueSky

Elena Rossini ⁂

2026-05-08 05:41:02

Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?

Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.

You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:

blog.elenarossini.com/w-social…

#OpenWashing

W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype

An article dispelling myths about W Social, the new European platform that aims to rival X: it is a fork of Bluesky that shares many similarities with Eurosky and requires government ID to sign up.

^{Elena Rossini}

I just refreshed the #WSocial website and it's showing a MAJOR redesign... with a label at the top stating "built on the open AT-protocol."

This is the first time ever they acknowledge this – I know, as I've been visiting their website for MONTHS and also never heard about this in any interviews. So the claims in my exposé stand (the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine would confirm this).

Of note: they changed their URL from wsocial.eu to wsocial.news

BTW thanks for all your feedback ❤️

Die wunderbare @_elena fasst den #wsocial Hype mal ein wenig zusamnen, bei dem, wie schon bei #eurosky , nicht viel uebrig bleibt, wenn man die Maske runterreisst.

Unter dem Deckmantel der Souveraenitaet verkauft auch W Social zentralisierte Ideen... jetzt sogar ohne die Moeglichkeit diese anonym zu nutzen.

Elena Rossini ⁂

2026-05-08 05:41:02

Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?

Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.

You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:

blog.elenarossini.com/w-social…

#OpenWashing

W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype

An article dispelling myths about W Social, the new European platform that aims to rival X: it is a fork of Bluesky that shares many similarities with Eurosky and requires government ID to sign up.

^{Elena Rossini}

„Issue no.1: How W Social ignored existing European initiatives“

I would say: They ignored all non-commercial media. And mastodon = european? Mostly. But it doesn’t mather. „Es gibt keine Nationalstaaten mehr“ is a trent un SF shows :)
#wsocial #raumpatrouille

Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?

Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.

You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:

blog.elenarossini.com/w-social…

#OpenWashing