@renderg.host suggests W Social is TruthSocial with a European accent

"TruthSocial wraps itself in the language of free speech, anti-establishment populism, and fighting Big Tech censorship. W Social wraps itself in the language of European digital sovereignty, verified truth, and privacy. These are not the same politics. But they are of a similar nature.

Both platforms identified an audience that felt alienated from mainstream social media. Both position themselves as principled alternatives. Both built on open source community infrastructure while simultaneously obscuring that fact. Both are controlled by a small group of wealthy well-connected people with clear political ambitions.

W Social's advisory board includes silicon valley execs, and senior political figures. The platform was unveiled not in a community forum but at the World Economic Forum in Davos: an event not typically associated with grassroots digital activism.

None of that makes W Social evil. It does however make the "this is for the people" framing worth scrutinising."

https://wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pub/3mokohkfb4224

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Oh my. @kantorkel seems to have found an XSS vulnerability in W Identity.

https://23.social/@kantorkel/116767220594438841

(via @robin.berjon.com on Eurosky)

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@markusreuter's Warum W Social mehr kalter Kaffee als heißer Scheiß ist, on @netzpolitik_feed, notes that W Social has already announced their plans for advertising -- and links off to an article in Blick where W Social CEO Anna Zeiter says that they won't have Bluesky-style blocklists allowing people to filter out fascists. What could possibly go wrong?

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@ben's take:

"W Social is the insider’s tool: a platform created people who know how to work the system for their own benefit. That ultimately means it’s more likely to betray its users. It seems likely to me that when the discourse moves away from sovereignty to something else, the founders will also shift. But it’s not a surprise to me that European politicians are more likely to work with a platform that partners with and pays people they already know."

https://werd.io/the-european-commission-falls-for-openness-theater-by-working-with-w-social/

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