Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team · 24/09/2026Hey everyone! With the proliferation of news surrounding sexual abuse(rs), we’ve decided to launch a label called: Normalization of Sexual Violence. 6272100
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 14h#WSocial 's tagline is "Trust Your Feed" – ironic, considering that the company's co-founder and most of its acolytes routinely publish misrepresentations about the state of the network. Second largest platform on ATproto? Matching Bluesky's KPIs? With these numbers?!? #WSocialFacts #WSocialPics 3194
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Matt Kane @mk.gg · 29/09/2026Her career may have been a lie, but Elizabeth Holmes did at least bring us the most iconic meme format of 2026 0233
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Berlin FediDay @berlinfediday.berlin.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026🎥✨ New Fediday recordings are here! There’s once again plenty of exciting content about the Fediverse to discover! 🚀🌐 🎬 @BjornW – Doeidag fair.tube/w/wvoVJcNgUK3TbCtvGwJFLZ 🎬 @samvie – “+1 to the rescue: implementing political demands for the Fediverse” […]berlin.socialOriginal post on berlin.social 124
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026I'm excited to announce that the PLC Organization now has a statute! And a bank account! And a @standard.site publication! All the important stuff. The PLC Org is an independent Swiss Association meant to operate the PLC directory, which collects and distributes signed updates to atproto accounts.blog.plcred.orgFirst steps of the PLC organization - Public Ledger of Credentials OrganizationOne year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credenti… 425157
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Oh this is lovely. 334677
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Scan @scanash.com · 28/09/2026Privacy company called Privacy.com uses Persona for identity verification You can't make this shit upprivacy.comPrivacy.com Virtual Cards – Secure, Temporary CardsProtect your financial life with Privacy.com Virtual Cards. Create secure, temporary card numbers to prevent fraud and control your online spending. 4358
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 28/09/2026My Roman empire: the thought process that went into the decision by @ec.europa.eu to move from @bsky.app to #WSocial. I especially wonder what kind of due diligence they did on the tech side, considering that #WIdentity, to this day, doesn't work properly for most prospective users. #WSocialFacts 3233
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 28/09/2026🌶️ take of the day: you can’t “fake it until you make it” on a network* based on an open protocol. We can all see your real numbers, in granular detail. Boastful statements based on fictional numbers make you look dishonest and untrustworthy. *ICYWW this is a subskeet about #WSocial MEGA fans. 1223
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 23/09/2026🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community 1486209
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @noyb.eu · 23/09/2026📰 "The campaign group which forced the EU's highest court to strike down past US-EU data sharing deals has slammed the latest changes to European data protection laws designed to accommodate AI." #DigitalOmnibus #EU #AI 🔍 Continue reading ▸ www.theregister.com/legal/2026/0...theregister.comPrivacy group slams EU for changing the data rules to cater to AISchrems campaign raises specter of another legal challenge as legislators propose changes to GDPR 03428
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 23/09/2026Wonder how lively activity is on #WSocial compared to #Eurosky? Thanks to @pds.ls you can plug into the live firehose for the two networks. After 32 minutes of observation this morning, @wsocial.eu had 330 events whereas @eurosky.social had 16 THOUSAND. The beauty of open data 💫 #WSocialFacts 3419
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 23/09/2026You know your reporting is having an impact when MEGA fans of a project you are exposing: - block your account - and then write denigrating posts about you behind your back, not addressing the super valid points you raised. All I have to say is: ✨ open data doesn't lie and is a beautiful thing 💫 2202
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Eric @esb.lol · 21/09/2026Hey 👋 we're looking for feedback on the language selector in the post composer. The way it current works is that if you switch languages and create the post, we save your last selection for next time. Would y'all prefer that, or have it reset to your primary language for each new post? 264714
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 22/09/2026#WSocial state of the network - September 22, 2026 There is a lot of misinformation regarding W Social and how active the network is. So, from time to time, I'd love to share some numbers. This is the beauty of #OpenData 💫 sources: pdsls.dev, clearsky.app, ATproto.at #WSocialPics #WSocialFacts 54216
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 21/09/2026we're working on the v2 of our standard.site link cards. these cards currently link to both the article (top part) and publication (bottom part). they show a "Subscribe" button when possible, otherwise a "View Publication" button. what changes would you all like to see in the next version? 3011624
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Gabriella Nonino @gabriellanonino.com · 20/09/2026Statement released by Canadian @gandersocial.ca about its partnership with @eurosky.social. Gander is also introducing a 900 characters long posts which hopefully @mu.social will also adopt and a verification that won’t require uploading ID. Looking forward to see how the partnership develops. 33713
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Mark Tomlinson @marktomlinson.dev · 18/09/2026Fewer startups, more co-ops. Fewer founders, more communities. 612227
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 16/09/2026Good morning and happy #SOTEU2026 happening right now - on a dozen platforms - and also on #WSocial. The way the company has been hyping the event, you'd think they had an exclusive... And they keep bragging how the livestream is "Made in Europe." Naaa, #WLive is powered by @stream.place! 🇺🇸 4217
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 15/09/2026#WSocial state of the network - September 15, 2026 There is a lot of misinformation regarding W Social and how active the network is. So, from time to time, I'd love to share some numbers. This is the beauty of #OpenData 💫 sources: pdsls.dev, clearsky.app, ATproto.at #WSocialPics #WSocialFacts 115620
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Caesar @caesar.dev · 15/09/2026Oh wow, this is great news! @wsocial.eu are claiming to be building their own streaming feature, which I had assumed would not be interoperable – but if it's @stream.place under the hood, that's fantastic! (I just wish they'd acknowledge it instead of pretending to be doing their own thing.) 1171
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Sascha Pallenberg @palle.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026I’m fairly sure #Bluesky might consider this if #Wsocial keeps becoming increasingly adversarial. Without the rest of the atmosphere, it basically turns into a European version of #TruthSocial, but these brainiacs can’t get their heads around that. 5275
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 14/09/2026It's hard to come back to regular life after spending a DREAM weekend in Berlin at #FediDay, surrounded by so many dear friends and fellow open social web advocates ✨ Pictured here with the amazing @samvie.eurosky.social 💖 0252
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Alexander Fanta @alexfanta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026From today's FTM newsletter: www.ftm.eu/newsletters/... 32414
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 11/09/2026Oh Denys I'm sorry but your definition of "active users" is a bit misleading: Yes #WSocial hosts 35,656 accounts (as of today at 9am). BUT! Only 7,087 are verified with ID. Of those, only 3,228 have ever published a single post or reply. ‼️ 90,9% of W Social users have never posted. #WSocialFacts 281
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂aly @aly.codes · 03/09/2026was tired of having to find account information (pds, previous handles, aliases) and moderation history (account labels, blocks, post labels, lists, etc) through sketchy websites or via manual perusing, so I built skytrace.aly.town it is extremely fast and (imo) pleasing to use.skytrace.aly.townSkyTraceFind a Bluesky account and view its blocks, labels, lists, and posts. 2419330
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team · 04/09/2026Civil rights have been stripped away from Black people and y’all are talking about giving rights to robots? Allright bro. 213144
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 02/09/2026@blackskyweb.xyz is building an interconnected suite of products reshaping how people connect, participate, organize, and transact online. We’re looking for a Head of Design to lead and shape how our products and brands look, feel, and work. please circulate widely. blackskyweb.xyz/about/jobs/h...blackskyweb.xyzHead of DesignProduct, brand, and visual identity About Blacksky Algorithms Blacksky Algorithms is building an interconnected suite of products reshaping how people connect, participate, organize, and transact onli... 5231193
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂silly kitty @remyraccoon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"I'll just pirate it" no. Harry Potter needs to be blasted from the cultural zeitgeist entirely. If you care even an iota about trans people you will watch Literally Anything Else 542739
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.theverge.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 366201019863
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 02/09/2026If you're curious about how #WSocial is currently doing - as their MEGA fans (pun intended) boast about the network hosting more accounts than #Eurosky - well well well... a picture is worth a thousand words. 📊 context in the alt text 🙏 thanks to @pds.ls for the info! #WSocialPics #SmokeAndMirrors 68320
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 31/08/2026feels like it’s inevitable these days that every tool you rely on is one garbage founder or funder away from their app’s version of this postalilleybrinker.com1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded. 10701284
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 01/09/2026Turns out that moving from #1password to #Bitwarden is not only the ethical, moral thing to do (for context see my recent reposts)... but it also saves you TONS of money. Win/win 💁♀️ 3617
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 31/08/2026Reminder that "we don't care what your politics are" is only ever uttered by people who very much care what your politics are 2544
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 29/08/2026Dear @wojciech.wsocial.eu (and CEO @anna.wsocial.eu who praised this post), I find it funny that your baseless accusation undermines the ENTIRE premise of #WSocial. Are you saying that I can create a fake profile as long as I use my government ID? Interesting! 34313
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Malte Engeler @malteengeler.de · 29/08/2026New blog post about #WSocial. I analysed how the EUs new poster child for digital sovereignty is using misleading language about how much of a platform it is, how it is build on dehumanisation and fosters ideas of European and white supremacy. www.structural-integrity.eu/wsocial-is-a...structural-integrity.euW Social is a textbook case for everything wrong with digital sovereigntyInsanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. This saying is attributed to the famous socialist (and theoretical physicist) Albert Einstein but actually trace... 63428
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 28/08/2026📣 Attention #BookSky 📖 The latest @dairinstitute.bsky.social newsletter revealed that @timnitgebru.blacksky.app 's book "Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist" is now available for pre-order: 🔗: bookshop.org/p/books/deep... Congrats Timnit 🎉 2266
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 25/08/2026PSA: @noupside.bsky.social 's book "Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality" is also on sale on the Kobo store today. I just bought it for my e-reader (I try to avoid Amazon as much as I can) 🤗 041
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 24/08/2026This is a rough draft of a thought, but my sense of #WSocial is that it is an attempt to enclose the commons. By cultivating the idea that WSocial is only humans and bots are the primary drivers of mis/disinformation, they're establishing a framework which accomplishes two things: 33411
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂rish @rishkebab.blacksky.team · 23/08/2026the best team one could ask for. 1394
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 24/08/2026Some thoughts on #WSocial, how they have been responding to criticism and why I believe they are showing the limits of free speech absolutism. I agree with @echna.bsky.social that "W Social seems to be on an X speedrun - without ever having been like Twitter." 🔗: aseachange.com/@elena/statu...aseachange.comElena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ (@elena@aseachange.com)[3 media attachments] Dear friends, Please gather around for a long post about #WSocial and how they are responding to critiques. I have noticed a trend: W Social leaders and staunch supporters are ... 3337
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Sascha Pallenberg @palle.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026🧵 Ich uebersetze das mal fuer euch: Nur weil ich als @wsocial.eu CEO Postings mit Pepe like, dem wohl bekanntesten Meme der weltweiten Alt-Right und Neo-Nazi Bewegungen, heisst das noch lange nicht, dass ich mit den Inhalten fein bin... ja ne, is klar! #Wsocial #Whitesocial #WsocialPics 7256
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 21/08/2026Thanks to all our friends and family and community that popped out to the Blacksky Community mixer (even in a storm, that’s love, we appreciate you 🖤) 212612
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 21/08/2026Lately I have noticed anti-immigrant rhetoric from #WSocial users - as well as posts containing hate speech that are NOT moderated. Thankfully I subscribe to @blackskyweb.xyz moderation and I want to thank @jdot.blacksky.team and his team for labeling one of the worst W accounts. #WSocialPics 129520
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 21/08/2026The truth about #WSocial - in pics 📊 Yesterday I noticed some W Social MEGA fans cheering because the PDS officially surpassed Eurosky for the number of accounts they are hosting. Open data shows a DIFFERENT reality: while Eurosky has lively activity, W Social has scant interactions. #WSocialPics 28016
Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 19/08/2026I wish the Atmosphere had content warnings (like on the fediverse)... because I'd like to show you the limits of free speech absolutism and the kind of content that is allowed on #WSocial: blatant racism, xenophobia and transphobia. X vibes... but hey, it's "hosted in Europe" 😒 14918
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Public Disclosure @publicdisclosure.bsky.social · 18/08/2026So apparently @anna.wsocial.eu seems to think that Apple‘s Director for Privacy @mikko.wsocial.eu is interested in far-right content by Martin Sellner. Interesting 🤨 3168
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Sascha Pallenberg @palle.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026So why did you delete your reply to the fake animation from the "Institute of Remigration"? You raved about the visualization which was created by a fake institute of the extreme right! You loved it so much that you even shared it with Apple's EMEIA director for privacy! mu.social/profile/pall... 3756
Reposted by Elena Rossini ⁂Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period. 106138765600