Dear Fedi friends,
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Dear Fedi friends,
Apologies for another toot about #WSocial but I am genuinely shaking right now.
The @EUCommission and its president Ursula von der Leyen have recently migrated their ATproto (Bluesky) accounts to W Social.
I cannot fathom why they would pick a private enterprise whose leaders didn't even have ATproto accounts 3 months ago... and who are so open to having their users' data mined to train European AI models.
My articles on them:
: https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/Wow. Just wow.
@_elena
> I cannot fathom why they would pick a private enterpriseI can easily not only fathom but be pretty sure why. I just do not know the sum.
@NatureMC
> lobbyismWe need to stop to use euphemisms. Not "lobbyism" but bribery. Not "investor;'s interests" but corruption.
The only place to use lobbyism for me is in the phrase "Lobbying should be punished by a life sentence for any party participating".
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File under: #WSocial shenanigans
I was alerted by @usti that the video of the Monaco AI conference presentation by W Social CEO Anna Zeiter was removed from their YouTube channel. You know, the video that I referenced in my second exposé about W Social, quoted extensively (because some of her statements were truly shocking).
This is the only video that was removed from their channel. I thought I had downloaded a copy to my computer... but hey, proof from the Wayback Machine of its existence
Removing this video looks an admission of guilt.
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@_elena @EUCommission it is baffling to me that they are not using Mastodon (EU instance) as their primary communication tool.
I hear the argument a lot that Mastodon is lacking reach but the instance could literally treated like a government website where the "reach" argument wouldn't count anyways.
@bitbraindev @_elena @EUCommission and anyone not interested in actively monitoring a site or social could just follow the account's rss feed.
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@_elena
> I cannot fathom why they would pick a private enterpriseI can easily not only fathom but be pretty sure why. I just do not know the sum.
@NatureMC
> lobbyismWe need to stop to use euphemisms. Not "lobbyism" but bribery. Not "investor;'s interests" but corruption.
The only place to use lobbyism for me is in the phrase "Lobbying should be punished by a life sentence for any party participating".
@ohir You can use whatever words you want. But let me use the words I want, it's my profession. I differ between lobbyism and murder. And I try to stay objective and calm in language.
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Removing this video looks an admission of guilt.
@MichelPatrice 1000%
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@bitbraindev SPOT ON. They could easily bridge their Mastodon account to Bluesky using BridgyFed... a Mastodon account that is truly sovereign / their own
@_elena @EUCommission ah wonderful example how it is done correctly are the German official broadcast services such as @BR24 hosted on a dedicated ard.social instance.
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File under: #WSocial shenanigans
I was alerted by @usti that the video of the Monaco AI conference presentation by W Social CEO Anna Zeiter was removed from their YouTube channel. You know, the video that I referenced in my second exposé about W Social, quoted extensively (because some of her statements were truly shocking).
This is the only video that was removed from their channel. I thought I had downloaded a copy to my computer... but hey, proof from the Wayback Machine of its existence
️ More shocking news! 
Christine Lagarde and the European Central Bank have just migrated to #WSocial too!!!
(For context, see the beginning of this thread).
I'm at a loss for words today. Truly.
What a world.
If you missed my exposés on this controversial, problematic company, here they are:
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Dear Fedi friends,
Apologies for another toot about #WSocial but I am genuinely shaking right now.
The @EUCommission and its president Ursula von der Leyen have recently migrated their ATproto (Bluesky) accounts to W Social.
I cannot fathom why they would pick a private enterprise whose leaders didn't even have ATproto accounts 3 months ago... and who are so open to having their users' data mined to train European AI models.
My articles on them:
: https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/Wow. Just wow.
@_elena I'm sure I'm missing something, but why are they bothing with W Social when they have a Mastodon instance here? is there value that W Social adds that is impossible with Mastodon? @EUCommission
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️ More shocking news!
Christine Lagarde and the European Central Bank have just migrated to #WSocial too!!!
(For context, see the beginning of this thread).
I'm at a loss for words today. Truly.
What a world.
If you missed my exposés on this controversial, problematic company, here they are:
- I don't get why #wsocial and not #eurosky
- Or even better, to bridge their #fediverse accounts with #bridgyfedThe best thing I could find about this news, is to spread the concept of different federated servers, to the european people on #atproto
They will see in action that an account they follow could simply migrate, and they could alsocc @hpod16
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️ More shocking news!
Christine Lagarde and the European Central Bank have just migrated to #WSocial too!!!
(For context, see the beginning of this thread).
I'm at a loss for words today. Truly.
What a world.
If you missed my exposés on this controversial, problematic company, here they are:
@_elena @HennaVirkkunen can we do something about this #WSocial drama ?
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️ More shocking news!
Christine Lagarde and the European Central Bank have just migrated to #WSocial too!!!
(For context, see the beginning of this thread).
I'm at a loss for words today. Truly.
What a world.
If you missed my exposés on this controversial, problematic company, here they are:
@_elena So W"social" have around… 300 users by now.
