Nazi Bar but make it European.Amirite, @…?#WSocial #EuropeWashing
I knew that the existence of #WSocial from last year stank of something foul. And @… has proved it. Good thing that #Eurosky exists!
W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital SovereigntyEuropean public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source.
RE: #WWarning
Did someone come up with a clever expansion of "W" for #wsocial already?
W is to ATproto what Gmail is to email.#WSocial #ATproto #gmail #email @…
Izzy (@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social)@aral@mastodon.ar.al apart from which, this "advert" is misleading: "Open Source AT Protocol". Even if that's true – what about the rest of this "service"? Don't e.g. Google, MS & Co offer their siloed mail services, providing access via the "Open Source IMAP protocol"? What kind of argument is this – just picking a tiny screw to drop the term "Open Source" in? Apart from me also doubting the "privacy preserving", given you need to ID yourself without need just to be able to use it. @_elena…