#WSocial will open up their beta program today… and I have a SCOOP for you: it appears that they have quietly gone closed-source!

[derzeitreiser@mastodon.social]

@sanzky @_elena It's Ursula von der Leyen. Here in Germany, she epitomizes - perhaps more than anyone else - a combination of corruption and utter incompetence.
She has never won a single popular vote anywhere - quite the opposite: she lost constituencies that had previously been considered safe seats for her party - and has built her entire career exclusively on her corrupt networks, while scandals would always catch up with her just in the nick of time, before she was promoted to the next post

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@hwll @_elena comply with what? A new twitter appears. Oh ok. Anyways.

[frumble@chaos.social]

@ikuturso @Mabande @Razemix @sanzky @_elena Kanzlerin Merkel has had a regular podcast which basically nobody has listened to/watched besides the journalists. There is hope it’s the same with Ursel.

[frumble@chaos.social]

@smallcircles @_elena You can find two excellent discussions of the term "digital sovereignty" in these threads (beware, it’s in German):

https://chaos.social/@stk/116711117194599688

[fabirucho@mastodon.social]

@_elena @EUCommission @aral hmm. I get it is not great. But is it better than meta? Most of my family and friends use meta services. So if it could be an alternative I could leave meta for a better option. Even though it isnt perfect

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@frumble thank you!

[reverend@social.undeadnetwork.de]

@_elena @EUCommission @aral The same nonsense we saw with #Mistral. It says on the official Wikipedia page that it’s down to Google, Meta and the usual hedge funds. Then billions are thrown at it; Mistral is utterly incompetent – in other words, rubbish. But everyone made money. I reckon there’s no getting round reading Rosa Luxemburg’s *The Accumulation of Capital*. That’s what it’s always about. Always.

[cquest@amicale.net]

@baalroga @_elena @renchap

To learn you need to understand.

They will, but the hard way, and too late.

[t3rcermillenium@mastodon.social]

@_elena @themipper When I first heard about #wsocial, I had high hopes of a genuine European, privacy-preserving, open source solution.

Fool me.

Definitely won’t be joining.

[rstub@digitalcourage.social]

@_elena
Etwas für Euch? @evawolfangel @sveckert

[ij@cupoftea.social]

@_elena It is coming to the UK. They say for new accounts #ageverification will be necessary. Old accounts will become valuable, think twice before closing them. Old account credentials will become valuable too I should think. Set up 2FA. #privacy

[pybonacci@mastodon.social]

@_elena @EUCommission @aral quite concerning and dissapointing ️

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@Fabirucho Eurosky is around, based on ATproto, European infrastructure, is open source and doesn't require ID verification

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@feyter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenderpreneur

[lefteristrip23@mastodon.social]

@_elena do you think you can make some posts on Reddit too? Buyfromeu sub doesn't seem like it's informed about it

[fabirucho@mastodon.social]

@_elena oh no. In a year or two everything requires ID verification. You want to open a fridge to get a beer. ID control. You use the lighter. Boom age verification. It is just satire (for now) but it is getting out of hand

[juergen_hubert@mementomori.social]

@derZeitreiser @sanzky @_elena

Her getting her current job was one of the bigger political #WTF moments of the previous decade.

[dataknightmare@mastodon.xyz]

@_elena

I am SO fed up, with this crook the EU has only gone backwards.

[phf@dmv.community]

@streetcoder They know. And none of them want anything like Mastodon. It's just too decentralized to be attractive for the "jetset autocrats" these people are.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@lefteristrip23 feel free to share on Reddit!