Scoop: #WSocial has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform.
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Two pieces of good news for W Social:
1) I may have found the problem that has bricked their network for the past week.
2) This may very well be the LAST article I ever write about them. It's exhausting and stressful and I want to retire from this beat and go back to promoting the Fediverse.
Thank you all for your support and encouragement. And to my trusted source (a Fedi friend) who found and shared with me brilliant gems: THANK YOU! It's been a real honor collaborating with you
️@_elena Thank you for your reporting on how much of a dumpster fire W social is.
I also think it would be a good thing that you take a much needed break from it. The toxic fumes do harm the brain.
Health first
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Scoop: #WSocial has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform.
Because my new article contains a possible solution to their problem, by the time you read this the issue may have been fixed. Or not. It has been going on for 7+ days, with complete radio silence by its developers and founders.
My exclusive:
: https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/ -
@aleksei yes! and the platform was bricked when user 1859 registered... so it's been unusable for a full week for 3100+ users out of 5000
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Scoop: #WSocial has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform.
Because my new article contains a possible solution to their problem, by the time you read this the issue may have been fixed. Or not. It has been going on for 7+ days, with complete radio silence by its developers and founders.
My exclusive:
: https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/@_elena Schadenfreude my old friend...
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@_elena it angers me that VDL and Lagarde jumped on this bandwagon apparently without any vetting – just based on some weird backroom Davos connections and apparently hold themselves too good for and too high and mighty for a presence on the open democratic #fediverse.
They should plusOne the Fediverse.
#plusOne@leanderlindahl @_elena well VDL and Lagarde endorsing this was the “red flag” as they say these days.
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@kielkontrovers @_elena it's a fork of bluesky sourcecode, which probably none of them really understands
When I inspected the Android APK, saw the same default assets that can be found in the bsky app sourcecode, e.g. https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/blob/main/assets/app-icons/android_icon_core_aurora.png
They only replaced the "ios_icon_default_next" one
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Scoop: #WSocial has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform.
Because my new article contains a possible solution to their problem, by the time you read this the issue may have been fixed. Or not. It has been going on for 7+ days, with complete radio silence by its developers and founders.
My exclusive:
: https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/@_elena well, well, well. If only there wad a ready-to-deploy, battle tested, and opensource solution for this problem. But as usual in this unjust and dreary world the surveillance capitalist need to do everything from scratch. All a lone, without help. Or rhyme or reason.
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When I inspected the Android APK, saw the same default assets that can be found in the bsky app sourcecode, e.g. https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/blob/main/assets/app-icons/android_icon_core_aurora.png
They only replaced the "ios_icon_default_next" one
@miquel @kielkontrovers @_elena Wow... Why am I working my ass off writing code when I could be out there copying open source projects and slapping a new logo on them? 🤯
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Scoop: #WSocial has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform.
Because my new article contains a possible solution to their problem, by the time you read this the issue may have been fixed. Or not. It has been going on for 7+ days, with complete radio silence by its developers and founders.
My exclusive:
: https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/@_elena , your article is such a friendly and open review. I enjoyed reading. Not to bump you into more w social research, ... ok, I'll say nothing
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