Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January?
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@_elena and #Wedium (again W) is just as shady. https://www.rnd.de/wirtschaft/wedium-und-w-social-jetzt-kommen-die-europaeischen-social-media-alternativen-RY5VRNGZXFDXFBCUNSZMZRM6SY.html
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ALT text@hannes99 I'd venture to say that Wedium is FAR shadier because it's not based on an open protocol...
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@m4lvin thank you!
️ that was the main goal: use this piece as reference anytime someone brings up W Social and some myths about it
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@_elena thank you, for doing the work journalism / media should have been doing!
@BjornW thank you Bjorn! It means a lot coming from you
️ I'm now thinking I need to translate this into French as well... there is SO MUCH misinformation about W Social here
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@_elena At least for me it's clear... W social is a financial project to grap some founding money. It's not a project with European sovereignty in mind or with sovereignty for Europeans.
Therefore, it should be avoided.
@feyter I think they are betting on mandatory age verification in Europe... which would give them a leg up over Eurosky
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@hannes99 I'd venture to say that Wedium is FAR shadier because it's not based on an open protocol...
@_elena true. At least Bluesky/AT Proto is a solid (while US BigTech) basis. And apparently in their entire team is only ONE IT person, thus heavy usage of vibe coding, when you have to build an entire new social media platform (and protocol) from scratch with only one person. The rest of the #Wedium team is marketing, finance and fundraising experts.
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Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?
Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.
You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
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@Gina 🥰
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Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?
Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.
You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
@_elena Doing the Lord's Work (TM) -- awesome.
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@_elena true. At least Bluesky/AT Proto is a solid (while US BigTech) basis. And apparently in their entire team is only ONE IT person, thus heavy usage of vibe coding, when you have to build an entire new social media platform (and protocol) from scratch with only one person. The rest of the #Wedium team is marketing, finance and fundraising experts.
@hannes99 yes and they have 125 million dollars in funding by crypto bros (Blockchain Capital and Bain Crypto Capital). Who can beat that?
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Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?
Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.
You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
@_elena we have one of these too! https://gandersocial.ca
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@hannes99 yes and they have 125 million dollars in funding by crypto bros (Blockchain Capital and Bain Crypto Capital). Who can beat that?
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@_elena we have one of these too! https://gandersocial.ca
@mick OMG 🤯
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@hannes99 yes and they have 125 million dollars in funding by crypto bros (Blockchain Capital and Bain Crypto Capital). Who can beat that?
@_elena maybe with all that money they outsourced the development/programming?
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Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?
Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.
You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
@_elena also, BeReal is French
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@_elena also, BeReal is French
@ziclaud excellent point! I had completely forgotten about them
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@feyter I think they are betting on mandatory age verification in Europe... which would give them a leg up over Eurosky
@_elena would it make even worse for me... And would show just again, that this platform is not interested in real sovereignty.
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@_elena wow, very nice post, Elena! You really nailed it
. I think in 2026, it’s pretty hard to sweep things like what you found under the rug. In the EU digital community—like we have on Mastodon—we sniff out things, kind of like opening Pandora’s boxes, much faster 
@castrillo thanks! there were so many revelations in the days following the announcement. I documented all the blunders and missteps in a folder called "W social horror show" - which had to be organized with subfolders because I had over 60 screenshots 🫠
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