#YunoHost could get some love on here: it's a system that you can install on a home server / VPS / Raspberry Pi that empowers anyone to self-host essential internet services - no dev skills necessary. I've been writing a blog series about it: blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-gu... ❤️ #SelfHosting

The DMA is one of the most powerful tools in tech policy — yet it remains unused, not even applied to social media. It's time to #FinishTheJob.

Dear @wsocial.eu, I found evidence of a spam account posting on your network: @tiktok.wsocial.eu (which is also doing brand impersonation). This account has been verified by a government ID (otherwise it would not have been able to post); it has been labeled as "spam" by @bsky.app. #WSocial

Today's goal: setting up my first #MeshCore repeater for better connectivity 🚀

⚠️ A couple of #WSocial article updates ‼️ My article about their deceptive "engagement" metric is now updated to clarify that the issue has been fixed (after I had email exchanges with them about it): 🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fic... (cont')

It’s here! Today, we’re announcing the launch of Blacksky-Only Posts! Now, anyone with a blacksky.app handle or anyone on the Blacksky feed can make a private post on blacksky.community. This marks a significant step forward in advancing permissioned data on the open social web.

What happened to the fight for the Internet? dustycloud.org/blog/what-ha... As the internet has become centralized, it's felt less like ours. But it can be ours, if we fight for it. And the fight has never been more critical or dire.

I'm glad that my article helped bring attention to this problem - which had bricked your network for all new users who had joined starting on June 22 (3000+ accounts, for 7+ days - I've got .csv records to prove it). Happy that my proposed solution worked 🫡

Reminds me of that time I found a gigantic security hole in eYou Social and helped them to fix it by telling them how to configure their cloud services. Interesting how the commercial closed source operators depend on actually informed users of open platforms to tell them how it should be done.

SCOOP: #WSocial: a Broken Ghost Town? W Social has been experiencing major technical issues for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform. I discuss the problem and a possible solution here: blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-b...

LATEST: on #WSocial's website, comment counts for posts by prominent users are incorrectly displayed, showing artificially elevated numbers. @opfuchs.gay came up with an interesting theory for it. "W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data": blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fic...

Most people getting into social do not do it for the benefit of society, but rather to control & own the social fabric that supports society. If you control the social platform, you can control the conversation. You then have enormous political power.

Interesting approach by the @ec.europa.eu to just ignore their own scientific service (JRC), which only 8w ago explicitly recommended to support @eurosky.social in this paper: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC144603

Hey @wsocial.eu where's the public repo of your app? github.com/w-social-eu/... And where's the video of the @anna.wsocial.eu keynote at the Monaco AI conference? Seems like the event org took it down! Why's that? Looking forward to your explanation 😎 #Closedsky

This was definitely NOT on my bingo card for this year: European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen taking a moment between G7 meetings to promote the launch of the closed-source, for-profit network #WSocial. 🔗 : web.archive.org/web/20260617... It may be a harbinger of things to come

SCOOP: In early June the European Commission unveiled its Tech Sovereignty Plan, which emphasized their commitment to #OpenSource. Just recently, they migrated their main ATproto accounts to #WSocial, a for-profit network that has quietly gone closed-source. blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-pub...

“Brussels fails to recognise that digital sovereignty isn’t just about who owns or controls your technology. It’s also about having an independent vision for how that technology is designed, developed and deployed.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Excited to hear @rude1.blacksky.team kick off the Open Social Awards - talking about building movements and everything he’s doing at @blackskyweb.xyz. “If you want to build for community, you should first have one.”

I just published a deep dive about #WSocial - the upcoming European fork of Bluesky, with mandatory age verification. Tech journalists have a habit of rehashing press releases and company talking points. Not me. I dug deeper and found really interesting things: blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-s...

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It's here! ‪An amazing Fediverse explainer video by @elenarossini.com‬ 🙌 If you haven't seen it yet, check it out here: news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-vi... A huge thank you to Elena, her team, and everyone involved for building something brilliant to help Fediverse awareness and advocacy.

🌟 This week, we’re spotlighting voices in #tech and #media in the Community tab on Flipboard. @zackwhittaker.bsky.social @oliverdarcy.bsky.social @karaswisher.bsky.social @joanwestenberg.bsky.social @elenarossini.com @werd.io This is what makes the social web so awesome!

Front pages of Bluesky, Threads, and Twitter rn

I know you’re being sardonic but there was an old game for the Apple II called “Car Builder” and the “ideal” chassis design that would get highest marks in the wind tunnel test looked almost EXACTLY like the Cybertruck