Dear Fedi friends,
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@liaizon yes, Clearsky may not be the best designed website, but it's SO USEFUL!
@_elena @liaizon @Gina @hbons @EUCommission yeah after I posted that message, I thought "oh no what if that's something someone made by themselves"
I originally thought it was W social or Blue sky
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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.
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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 Mastodon is not really not based in one country or one company like other social networks so putting the Mastodon in that map would be misleading (probably not what they were thinking though).
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For context, my two articles on #WSocial didn't include some explosive things I found out in my research because:
- I was given some information on background, confidentially
- I found a particular thread to be a bit distracting (aka the MEGA hats sold on a website with far right paraphernalia)Plus there are so many white lies... a pattern of misrepresentation that makes it really hard for me to trust them.
Do I have to write a THIRD article about W now? 🫠
@_elena huh, so that's what W Social is up to - I could be convinced on a network with verified real name policy but that combined with AI training, urgh!
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For context, my two articles on #WSocial didn't include some explosive things I found out in my research because:
- I was given some information on background, confidentially
- I found a particular thread to be a bit distracting (aka the MEGA hats sold on a website with far right paraphernalia)Plus there are so many white lies... a pattern of misrepresentation that makes it really hard for me to trust them.
Do I have to write a THIRD article about W now? 🫠
@_elena thanks for your service Elena, I was getting an eye on WSocial since it started and people was defending it as "the European bluesky", which always sounded weird to me.
I should've thought they were going to be this kind of shit eventually...
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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 @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.
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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 @EUCommission Entirely unexpected move from von der Leyen /s
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@_elena @EUCommission On the ATmosphere, I have a Eurosky account. It may be better, but they just launched a new ATproto Web interface which requires age declaration...
@bortzmeyer @_elena @EUCommission UuuuUUuuuggggh.
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For context, my two articles on #WSocial didn't include some explosive things I found out in my research because:
- I was given some information on background, confidentially
- I found a particular thread to be a bit distracting (aka the MEGA hats sold on a website with far right paraphernalia)Plus there are so many white lies... a pattern of misrepresentation that makes it really hard for me to trust them.
Do I have to write a THIRD article about W now? 🫠
@_elena hell yeah, please!
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For context, my two articles on #WSocial didn't include some explosive things I found out in my research because:
- I was given some information on background, confidentially
- I found a particular thread to be a bit distracting (aka the MEGA hats sold on a website with far right paraphernalia)Plus there are so many white lies... a pattern of misrepresentation that makes it really hard for me to trust them.
Do I have to write a THIRD article about W now? 🫠
@_elena yes you do need to keep the info coming!
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@_elena @EUCommission Entirely unexpected move from von der Leyen /s
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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 @EUCommission What the heck?!?
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@leanderlindahl @phl @_elena @EUCommission Ugh... Very frustrating. Corporate lobbying at its finest.
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@liaizon @_elena @Razemix It seems like it's a bit inconsistent. vonderleyen https://atproto.at/uri/at://did:plc:wr6esgkuixhvsge3ueraz6yb#identity and ec.europa.eu https://atproto.at/uri/at://did:plc:oxo226vi7t2btjokm2buusoy#identity uses W, while e.g. jessikaroswall https://atproto.at/uri/at://did:plc:7jh367ofh36xyxb7mpu7xigi#identity uses bsky.
On Blacksky vonderleyen https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:wr6esgkuixhvsge3ueraz6yb and ec.europa.eu https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:oxo226vi7t2btjokm2buusoy apears like they are currently deactivated.
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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 @EUCommission Ugh, I really hate all of this political signalling around "European tech". I don't think this will be the last time we see the fallout caused by being more concerned about what's "European" than what's actually good for citizens
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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 reading your newer blog post and the video from the AI Monaco Conference is no longer available because “This video has been removed by the uploader“. I guess they have seen your post and acted.
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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@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.euI cannot fathom why
Its not that difficult, these people don't give a single shit about you, freedom, or democracy. They are pure, unadulterated evil. They do not deserve more chances, they need to be eradicated. -
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.
It’s not really a surprise, is it? The same @EUCommission that keeps talking about “consumers” instead of “people” and “markets” instead of “societies”?
The EU started as an economic union and until we force it to change into a true union of people and human values, it’s simply better than nothing.
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I remember when W was announced, the things they emphasised were:
A) "Now Europeans can be the information gatekeepers too!"
B) "Now Europeans can harvest data too!"
It's as if they looked at facebook and twitter and focused on the very worst aspects of them as what they wanted to reproduce, rather than on the basic humans-talking-to-humans aspect.
@passenger @_elena Turns out the most sovereign thing is to have your own poison generators, imagine if a different country was doing it.
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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 @EUCommission
Politics is about managing the largest group of individuals in a community with the smallest sense of reality in that community.
