RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285
I had been waiting for this day for YEARS! 🥳
Thank you @EUCommission for updating your website footer and adding the link to your @Mastodon account up first. And X is gone! Wow wow wow!!!
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I just refreshed the #WSocial website and it's showing a MAJOR redesign... with a label at the top stating "built on the open AT-protocol."
This is the first time ever they acknowledge this – I know, as I've been visiting their website for MONTHS and also never heard about this in any interviews. So the claims in my exposé stand (the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine would confirm this).
Of note: they changed their URL from wsocial.eu to wsocial.news
BTW thanks for all your feedback ❤️
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285
I had been waiting for this day for YEARS! 🥳
Thank you @EUCommission for updating your website footer and adding the link to your @Mastodon account up first. And X is gone! Wow wow wow!!!
"Its founders have ties with European politicians"
Apparently also including the German data protection representative Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider 😏
Regarding my W Social exposé: it was months in the making and I could have written a LOT more, showing additional examples of technical blunders, but I kept it "brief" at 3500 words 😅
I ran out of characters to tag all the awesome people I mentioned in the piece: @doktorzjivago (thanks for the top notch meme), @tom @mapache and @Em0nM4stodon
And special thanks to people who volunteered to proof-read a draft and gave me fantastic feedback: @bitzero and @DataKnightmare
It takes a village ❤️
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/
👂 En train d'écouter le retex du @cercle sur l'instance du « Réseau Culture » (https://reseauculture.fr/about).
🚀 Avec le soutien de @renchap de Mastodon et de @_elena, un hébergement sur @bearstech et @imacrea pour l'administration.
À voir et écouter ici :
→ https://doc.reseauculture.fr/doc/presentation-retour-dexperience-150426-Z7aB13HXL3
If you’re trans & born before 2000, when asked who you are you can legit answer:
“Do not ask me for a single title, I have crossed millennia under different names and worn more than one form besides. Revered by some and feared by many, I have seen the fall of nations and am remembered differently in each age that survives me.”
One of my biggest regrets from the past few years was losing the habit of reading books. All the usual excuses: child to look after, too tired, not enough time…
I didn’t read a ton, but I had an average of 30 books a year. Last year I must have read 6. This year in early April I was at 0… and the realization shook me to my core.
Something had to be done.
I found out about KOreader and SimpleUI - having on an e-reader homepage a bar with reading stats would be an incredible motivator… I thought.
Jailbroke my #Kindle, installed #KOreader and #SimpleUI. And 18 days later I have… an 18 day reading streak and I’m averaging 43 minutes of reading time per day. I’m just so happy! 😊
(Unrelated but #Technofeudalism is REALLY GOOD - off to go resume reading it for another 20 minutes or so).
RE: https://indieweb.social/@tg/116522563497941266
"Personal sites are coming back. RSS feeds are coming back. Webrings are coming back. People are remembering that a website can be a home or a place instead of a profile."
🔥🔥🔥 Give this a read, friends (there's a link to switch to plain text if you prefer).
@renchap commence par présenter @joinmastodon poke @_elena 👉 https://video.tedomum.net/w/h34emz99UdCgtPhk5u1aiD
