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Even as @wsocial.eu onboards more and more users, they can’t seem to get them to talk to each other 🤐 This atrocious engagement rate (~9%) for users on the W PDS has been steady as a rock since day 1 (here you can see it in the daily totals and percentages). #WhosThereSocial

Absolute totals: Stacked bar chart titled “W Social — total users, 1 July to 21 August 2026”. Y-axis shows user count from 0 to just over 25,000, x-axis shows dates from late June to late August. Red area (non posting) and thin green band on top (users with 1+ post) both rise steadily from about 6,400 total users on 1 July to around 27,000 by 21 August, with a sharper jump in growth between 29 July and 3 August.100% stacked bar chart titled “W Social — total users by share, 1 July to 21 August 2026”. Y-axis shows share of total users from 0–100%, x-axis shows dates from late June to late August. Red area (non posting) holds steady at roughly 90–92% throughout; green area (users with 1+ post) fills the remaining 8–10%, both bands essentially flat across the full period.
Elena Rossini ⁂@elenarossini.com · 2w ago

How is this possible? #WSocial hosts 26k accounts but only 5.4k have provided ID verification (and thus can post). Of those, only 2450 people (as of this AM) have EVER published a SINGLE post or reply. By comparison, on Eurosky (26k accounts) EVERYONE can post. No ID required #WSocialPics

a screenshot from the list of verified accounts on atproto.at, showing that W Social has 5.4k verified accounts

The 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

a screenshot showing two browser windows side by side, connected to pdsls.dev and the firehose of W Social (left) and Eurosky (right). The two networks were analyzed over 90 minutes yesterday, ending at 2:30pm. W Social had 1130 total events while Eurosky had 37293 events

Thread #1 60 minutes of events on the #Eurosky vs #Wsocial PDS. Monitored between 3:10PM and 4:10PM CET EuroSky is not 29 times larger. During this hour, its equally sized user base was 29 times more active—and dramatically more inclined to like and amplify content.

Dark monitoring dashboard showing 18,780 events from pds.eurosky.social over one hour. The most frequent activities were 12,284 likes, 2,620 posts, 1,731 reposts, 1,299 follows and 161 threadgate events.
Dark monitoring dashboard showing 651 events from pds.wsocial.network over one hour. The most frequent activities were 238 follows, 188 likes, 99 posts, 34 profile changes and 13 reposts.

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