even aside from the ID requirement, naming your platform "W" based on X's name is poor messaging. you're basically admitting that you have nothing original to offer but "euro X". X is bad and you shouldn't let them set the frame

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

"but how does anarchism work in the real world" decentralize and become unstoppable

YOU SHALL NOT PISS 🧙‍♂️

ICE getting harassed in the public bathroom instead of trans people

Being forced to provide proof of citizenship to poast does not public commons make

the "sovereignty" rhetoric in some of their recent posts is a little unsettling; I'll be curious to learn their position on more concrete questions like this

Hey @eurosky.social, I'm currently considering to join your PDS once it goes online because I look for another general purpose PDS that isn't Bluesky and also isn't located within the USA but if you start to pull the same shit that "W" app is currently pulling

Every time European liberals start talking about “sovereignty” it at best sounds like your uncle who is halfway gone off a pig butchering scam trying to tell you they won’t butcher him, too.

We should be speaking in code by this point anyway. But yeah, the feds are really practiced (not good, but they do it a lot) at doing this kind of shit. And worse. They will set your ass up for fun. I've seen them use family to rope people into shit. Find a community and shut up.

4000 years and its form has remained unchanged.

Copyright believers are incredibly underrated as contenders for the most evil people you've ever met (get your Anna's Archive local mirror ready now if you can afford the disk space)

the nazi you know might be better than the nazi you don’t but he’s still a fucking nazi. Try asking the rest of the world what they know about this rather than assuming everyone you meet online is an American patriot.

My colleague from Brazil is correct actually it’s bad when you need to have your papers checked to use a website.

do you think pan african nationalism has never existed? lmao come on

I stand fully behind the Independence Declaration of Cyberspace (www.eff.org/cyberspace-i...) and "european digital sovereignty" is a nationalist trojan horse to establish a Digital Fortress Europe we need to urgently get rid off.

...and thus immediately attractive to some truly stunning lackwits, like this chimpanzesque submoron seriously attempting "you can't be nationalist about supranational blocs" to deflect attention from that: bsky.app/profile/vagr...

This is overt enemies-of-the-internet trojan horse shit exploiting the moment, to put it bluntly

While it's hard to be totally negative on growth of the atproto ecosystem in light of the dire need for diversification around here, they're openly boasting of ID checks and deliberate obeying in advance about Chat Control

Good blogpost on the W Social thing (in Swedish, the usual translations tools work fine)

why are they acting like european union nationalism isn't a thing

A socialmedia platform that is european only is as nationalist of a project as f.e. one that is US american only, chinese only, etc. would be and the formality of Europe not being a single state doesn't change that fact. Sincerely, a fellow person from the EU.

but really how did europeans whitewash their fascism and white supremacy enough to where they think that an european only social media doesn't sound like exactly what is it (a really boring online ethnostate)

One of the reasons why I don't use Mastodon as much is it's very eurocentric. Meaning a platform like that "W" app that isn't just eurocentric but only accessible for (some because not everyone here has an ID) people from the EU is sth I wouldn't even consider using. Sincerely, someone from the EU.

ayla is so right here

To all privacy and open source activists here in the EU who have fallen for that "digital sovereignty" framing, please finally realize where that very framing is actually taking us. I don't want to some day wake up imprisoned behind a "Great Firewall of Europe".

Sovereignty means border cops, surveillance systems and nothing else

let alone the privacy aspect, requiring IDs on your "euro only" network excludes parts of the european populace that are already facing extensive racism within euro society

we created a space that had no borders and are celebrating that we are drawing them again then acting shocked when platforms want to start enforcing those borders lol

All of you are missing the point regarding W. this is what "sovereignty" looks like and why I've always felt weirded out when everyone was acting like its a good thing to desire. Them locking sign ups to Europeans only—Europeans with an ID specifically—is what sovereignty is. It's a dumb gross word

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

I don't want to paint a rosy picture, because it's a city under siege. People are being abducted all the time. One person told me about watching 1-2 abductions a day, just in her own work following ICE.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Another person put it: "we're Minnesotans. We're excited to get out our real winter gear out of the box for the year." He was an audio engineer whose kid went to school in the area. No way in hell was he going to let anyone come for the kids on his watch.

Today I talked with a 76 year old who'd been standing in the cold for hours guarding her neighbors. I was getting kind of chilly, even in the new winter gear i bought for this trip (and I live in the goddam mountains myself). She didn't even have a hat on.

Before I came, I asked a local friend if the cold (it's going to be -20 or so in the coming days) would stop people from coming out. "No, we'll be there. It's ICE who can't handle it."

It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.

I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it. Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Well guess what, the terror isn’t even limited to the south and its borders. It’s in the fucking north and it is spreading.

Fucking cowards and worms without true principles, substituted with what are soft feelings about what you think passes as popular in “decent” company.

It is one of those things that has never been more night and day for me as I revisit that entire epoch. The same spineless worms amongst us would have been eagerly pushing for us to refocus on free soil imperialism instead of controversial issues like southern proto-confederate terror in MO, KS, IL.

Every person who keeps crying about ICE as a suboptimal electoral issue would have been saying the exact same thing about slave catchers and the free and unregulated movement of black Americans and freemen

kidnapping a 5 year old to bait his father and then shipping them thousands of miles away should put you in prison, yes, but it should also cause every friend and family member you have ever had to permanently reject you in disgrace, and if they don’t, they share your shame

you can choose to make things issues and in fact most things that have ever happened are things someone decided to make an issue and won the argument for

donald Trump ran originally on building a giant wall, a thing that had zero salience and which very few people cared about before it came out of his mouth this is just being a loser