| W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty(blog.elenarossini.com) | |
| 266 points by nemoniac 46 days ago | 164 comments | |
tl;dr: The European Commission, ECB, and their presidents have migrated their ATproto accounts from Bluesky to W Social, a Swedish for-profit "European alternative to X" that recently and quietly removed its public GitHub repository, suggesting it has gone closed-source. This contradicts the Commission's own Tech Sovereignty Package emphasizing open source, and ignores Eurosky, a transparent non-profit European ATproto alternative. Critics note W Social's advisory board includes Big Tech figures like Tools for Humanity's privacy chief, raising concerns it's just another surveillance-capitalist startup that happens to be EU-based. | |
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