"I blocked him and then he blocked me and now I can't see what he's saying" - well no shit, that's kind of the idea of blocking :facepalm: Why is it that the "I don't want solutions, I just want to be angry" people are all prospective members of Densa?

Warning: I'm in an absolutely filthy grumpy old man mood today and it's starting to leak out in my replies. And I'm not apologising for it. So if anyone feels called out, hail Satan, and please go do something anatomically improbable.

I find myself at a point where I really want to do an even longer, angrier, and grumpier rant/vent piece on W Social. Except I don't know where to start. Or how to write it "proper" instead of my usual stream-of-consciousness way of doing it. I guess I'm better at talking than writing, so...

I don't know what to make of the people moaning doom and gloom after Toni Schneider's interview the other day; what exactly is there to doom and gloom about? I honestly don't see it, or I'm just too dumb right now to get it. I seek Enlightenment!

It's interesting to see that an explanation of "chopped liver" (in the context of "what am I? ...") gets acknowledged, but the existence of migration tools that would work with W Social (since it's just another PDS) gets ~crickets~ *stirs the pot gently*

Anna Zeiter@anna.wsocial.eu · yesterday

I didn’t know that. Thank you for sharing!

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Sascha Pallenberg@palle.eurosky.social · 2d ago

🤡 And I thought Musk's new twitter blue checkmarks were a scam. #wsocial

Oh dear. Since that event seems to be the case for a lot of users, I guess W Social gets to have your PII for 7-14 days. Probably longer. Assuming a fair bit of vibe coding going on, potentially way longer. And maybe it won't just be them...

Emelia@thisismissem.social · 2d ago

Correction per their privacy policy: if it doesn't immediately validate then the identity information is sent to their servers and stored for 7-14 days (I think it's 7). This is all hidden in their privacy policies

Well, the news is in and it's a banger. If you try to use an unverified Wsocial account from any other AT protocol app? They'll gate you right back to needing to be verified. That means that an unverified Wsocial account *can't be used anywhere* on AT protocol. In my opinion this is Wsocial ...

𝔱𝔦𝔪@timheffley.xyz · 2d ago

So it looks like they are locking your ability to use the account behind verification, even off-platform.

lol make sure to reply to wsocial.eu accounts with your unverified accounts just as a subtle reminder that there is a lot of misrepresentation atproto.at/uri/at://did...

app.bsky.feed.post record by @anna.wsocial.eu

View @anna.wsocial.eu's record in app.bsky.feed.post collection on Taproot

atproto.at

W Social is the biggest lie on the AT Protocol

yeah it's kinda whack has anyone tried migrating OUT of Lsocial? we should be sure to remind people that they can at least escape to @eurosky.social or @tophhie.social or @wafrn.net or.. well the list goes on an on

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Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · 3d ago

SHOTS FIRED, I REPEAT SHOTS FIRED

Sascha Pallenberg@palle.eurosky.social · 3d ago

Vorab als Podcast 👉 share.transistor.fm/s/0048cc7b - Warum ich via @eurosky.social wieder im #Bluesky Kosmos aufgeschlagen bin - Warum ihr ebenfalls dahin wechselt solltet Und wieso #Wsocial eine absolute Geisterstadt und zum Scheitern verurteilt ist. Gerne teilen. Danke fuer euren Support 🙏

What do you mean nobody wants to join another walled garden social app with real name requirement through a half gigabyte closed source app with a "trust me bro" guarantee for handing over identification?

got a new thermal receipt printer? don't know what to do with it? try printing a live feed of the atproto firehose! you certainly won't regret printing a live feed of the atproto firehose

ANNOUNCEMENT: I’ve been working on putting together something between a retreat and a hackathon for #atproto builders for the past several weeks. I’ve been in discussion with potential funders and some funding has become available to make this a reality. now, I need your help!! KEEP READING 👇🏽

For those of you still on the fence about using Mu (mu.social) - companion pet is great. Sometimes it makes me stop angryposting! :D

Lia Belle@liabelle.me · 4d ago

If I may add: @jaoler.fi can tell you about deleting W account. If you’re looking for European alternatives, try @eurosky.social & their app @mu.social. MU offers Post Editing, Companion Pet & more 🙂 You can log into mu.social using your Bsky or any ATProto account without ID verification. More:

So this is my little very much subjective rant about #wsocial and the stupid shenanigans they've pulled that have ticked me off.

I'm not sure it's ATP's stain to be honest—it's simply a bad actor trying to co-opt the protocol and talk out of both sides of their mouth. I think the fault lies with wsocial for selling it as such.

Gare de Lyon, I am in you. Unfortunately for another 2.5 hours because I was too efficient with what I needed to do... Urgh.

Dearest #atproto peeps, if you want to be like, cool and stuff, and earn my eternal gratitude (and a beer if we ever meet in person), I'm looking for some real world usage metrics for the Bluesky reference PDS - mostly memory/cpu v.s. active users. Who has? Who shares? kthx!

Chalon sur Saone. Lovely town. Lovely festival going on too right now. Not so lovely? A bunch of chucklefucks with leaf blowers cleaning up at 05:00 in the morning. Not to mention the repeated passes of a street sweeper. I mean, I get having to clean up after the savages but not at this...

@atmosphere.tickets you don’t appear to have DMs turned on and no indication of who you are. Following that to @atmosphere.money and the about page, also no people mentioned. Let’s normalize saying who the humans are please.

Urgh. Been working on something (for a while) that's getting close to being done but then you get to do that fun business thing of looking into fair pricing except with RAM prices being what they are, cloud instances have gone skyhigh, dedicated servers have gone absolutely into another galaxy...

This "vlizotrap" is a Dutch device traditionally used to manage population size. Once a year, usually in the summer, every Dutch person completes the challenge of using this extendable stepladder to fetch camping equipment from the attic. Those who are too old or unhandy die trying. #FolkloreFriday

It's still funny to see #wsocial users get all confused in that "but but but there's Bluesky in my supposedly totally isolated and private thing that I showed by ID for" way. Oh dear. Sucker born every minute.

An open network is only open when it's easy to distribute 🛜 That's why we've made our AppView easy to self-host - and included a federation feature so it can talk to other AppViews! Available for testing July 25.

i wish perl wasn't considered a dead language by most nerds bc i'm actually having so much fun with it. i feel like i fucking understand it??? like not everything but i'm getting so much further than i've gotten with like javascript or something

#WSocial sucks!

This is a fascinating experiment with the Bluesky firehose aim.cee.wtf