Dear Fedi friends,

It may be time for a re-introduction: I'm Elena, an Italian creative (writer, photographer, filmmaker) living in Paris, France.

You may have initially gotten to know me for my advocacy for the Fediverse (like my Fedi intro video: https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/ or my blog or my Fediverse stock photo). So, you may have been a bit confused lately, over all my critical posts about the new network W Social. Why do I keep bringing it up?

I believe that W Social - and its required, companion app W Identity - are an existential threat to the Fediverse. So I'm fighting tooth and nail to oppose and resist them.

Why? The European Commission has enthusiastically embraced this new hard fork of Bluesky that requires age verification. Even Ursula von der Leyen advertised the launch of W Social in between G7 meetings last week.

I have MOUNTAINS of evidence of poor planning, extremely lax security, use of U.S. Big Tech platforms for something that purports to be "based in Europe, for the world."

Why is it a threat for the Fediverse? The only way to make sense of the European Commission's embrace of this platform is that maybe it sees it as a trial run for MANDATORY age verification for social media across the European Union.

No Fediverse app has infrastructure in place to comply. And if a mandate is introduced, it would spell the end of the open social web and internet anonymity... like Chat Control, but basically killing the Fediverse.

I find it EXTREMELY disturbing to see the enthusiastic embrace of W Social by the European Commission. It took them YEARS to change their website footer and add Mastodon and Bluesky instead of X. In the span of 5 weeks, they replaced the Bluesky logo (a butterfly) with the "W" from W Social.

All my posts about W Social from last week went viral. My articles have been quoted in articles in French, Dutch and German news sites (https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/).

I have held back from sharing more evidence I found because I don't want to appear like a bully who promotes pile-ons. I'm a nice, sweet person, I promise! I take ZERO pleasure in writing about W Social, but I have unwittingly become an expert on them - after researching them for 5 months. So here I am.

I will keep investigating them. If you don't want to hear about this topic anymore - I would understand - you can mute the hashtag #Wsocial.

Peace out.

#introduction #reintroduction

I saw 3 beavers today.

Today I saw 3 beavers

One would have been awesome. But 2 larger ones and a younger one. I saw 3 beavers 🦫 today!

You can tell I'm pretty excited about this. #beaver #reintroduction

#3GoodTings #ThreeGoodThings

To all the newbies and to many more coming to this platform welcome.

To all who don't know me my name is Stu. I am a parts specialist for a commercial food equipment and refrigeration company.

I love playing golf, I love technology and music.

Looking forward to hanging out and meeting all of you here.

#reintroduction

A quick #ReIntroduction! 👋 I’m Steven.

By day: Practicing #ChineseMedicine & #Acupuncture for 30+ years in Edina, specializing in the #BalanceMethod & #EmotionalWellness.

By night: Optimizing web architecture with #WordPress & #LocalSEO.

To balance it all out, I play the #Saxophone! 🎷

Always happy to connect with fellow health pros, digital marketers, and musicians.

#Introduction

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#SMCC #discovermammals #hamster #conservation #Bulgaria #Sofia #mammal #caprivebreeding #reintroduction

Hi Mastodon,

I’d like to reintroduce myself and introduce my album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy”.

I write songs and over the past 6 years roughly, I’ve collected 10 from about 100 to be recorded, mixed and mastered. As of today, those 10 songs are available to listen to at bandcamp as the album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy” (https://alastairleonard.bandcamp.com/album/a-cufflink-wearing-guy)

There are songs about fleeting marketplace romances (Sunflowers), and going in search of your life’s purpose (Desert Rose). There are other songs about taking the easy road and waking up late (Mid-Morning Guy) and the housing crisis in Australia (Yoshino Removals). There are even more songs — about bad haircuts (West Coast Haircut) and the disappearance of the bees (Honey Bee). The title track follows a pair of cufflinks given to me as a young man and their trajectory through the following decades. All the lyrics are up there so you can read along while listening if that’s your preference.

The music is roughly what I’d call indie-pop including jangly guitars numbers and piano ballads but there are forays into country twang, latin percussion, and doof. Some of my influences include #jeffreylewis #bjork #davidberman #cassandrajenkins #dangelo #leonardcohen #hopesandovalandthewarminventions #lucindawilliams #jenslekman #jonathanrichman #ninasimone #arethafranklin #pixies #thecure #thefieldmice #thesundays #thelemonheads #themagneticfields #tmbg #thegobetweens #motown

Attention is a commodity these days and I don’t expect too many people will hear the record; but if you do feel inclined to listen and can find a moment, I hope you find something joyful in these songs. Creating A Cufflink-Wearing Guy has been a labour of love. Mostly love, a little labour. Until next time, keep looking on the bright side. Thanks for reading. AL

#songs #song #music #indie #indiepop #pop #songwriter #acufflinkwearingguy #alastairleonard #introduction #reintroduction #album #newalbum #record

hi it‘s time for a little #reintroduction, because i feel like it.

hello there lovely prople, i am murz, a forty-something based in good old germany. i do a bit of everything in my spare time—playing games (#turnbased, #simulation, #boardgames, #rpg), making art (#urbansketching, #fibreart, #calligraphy), keeping the plants alive, enjoying wine and whisky, and listening to music (#cooljazz, #world as collected vinyls from my travels)

please feel free to drop by and say hello, and find out what we may have in common. i apologise beforehand for long-winded hyperfocus toots and frequent boredom complaints.

looking forward to the fedi journey with you all. take care now.