W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
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W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
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Re: W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
#2W Social felt extremely shady since their first advertisement on HN.
Also, for all their talk about human verification, I have 6 accounts under different names :)
Re: W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
#3I don't understand why anyone would want to make the same mistake all over again: jumping onto a private platform owned by a company inevitably results in you becoming the product sold and enshittification.
We've seen it so many times.
Learn the lesson. Use Mastodon this time.
Re: W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
#4An unfortunate step backwards. I'm cheering for Eurosky and open networks.
Re: W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
#5I don't understand why anyone would want to make the same mistake all over again: jumping onto a private platform owned by a company inevitably results in you becoming the product sold and enshittification. We've seen it so many times. Learn the lesson. Use Mastodon this time.
Eurosky is also an option.
Re: W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
#6Another social network with 0 network effect and is dead on arrival. Now being closed makes it far worse than Bluesky and no better than a prototype pre-production version of Threads; with 0 users.
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> W Social unveiled at the WEF
That's everything I need to know.
[0] https://www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/germany-news/german-ceo-l...
Re: W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
#7I don't understand why anyone would want to make the same mistake all over again: jumping onto a private platform owned by a company inevitably results in you becoming the product sold and enshittification. We've seen it so many times. Learn the lesson. Use Mastodon this time.
Eurosky is also an option.
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Re: W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
#8I don't understand why anyone would want to make the same mistake all over again: jumping onto a private platform owned by a company inevitably results in you becoming the product sold and enshittification. We've seen it so many times. Learn the lesson. Use Mastodon this time.
But thats just the thing with atproto. The company sucks? Just move your PDS.
Re: W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
#9I don't understand why anyone would want to make the same mistake all over again: jumping onto a private platform owned by a company inevitably results in you becoming the product sold and enshittification. We've seen it so many times. Learn the lesson. Use Mastodon this time.
atproto is also open source and in my experience (solely as a user rather than a developer on the API/network) it simply works better than Mastodon.
Re: W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
#10I thought this was a good post on the topic: [W Social is TruthSocial with a European accent.][1]