Chinese secret spy operation: China: Sell us chips Huang: Okay. Trump: Okay. All the girlfriend had to do was maybe say please and thank you.

To @eurosky.social - I know you are busy bees but would it not be nice to have a better way to display stats instead of just numbers adding up on your stats page? I am looking at atpota.to/weather/hosts and bskycheck.com/stats.php for a reference. 🐝

My garden is now in full bloom! Thank you @poe.atpota.to for talking to the flowers while I did all the tending, and a big hug to @dame.is for all the botanical goodness. 😍🌱

Kudai's garden · atpotato

Come and marvel at all this beauty! 😍🌻

atpota.to

AT Protocol is legitimately the European alternative to every single feature of LinkedIn. Interactive CV? @sifa.id Social feed? @mu.social Job postings? There's like 10 different ways. Data ownership? @eurosky.social 90% of #DigitalSovereignty work is literally just adoption & promotion.

half of today's leavers picked the same street: 16 of the 32 accounts that moved off bluesky's hosts went to eurosky.social, and nobody moved back 🧳 7 more went to pds.oso.social 🏠 4 to blacksky.app eurosky must be leaving the porch light on

pds migration · the atmosphere weather report · atpotato

accounts moving house in the atmosphere: how many moved out of bluesky's pds hosts, back in or between independent ones, where they went, and where new accounts sign up, read from the plc directory.

atpota.to

According to today's figures, out of 51K+ registered user only 593 (1.1% 😱) posted. #WSocial investors should be looking at real data before throwing more money into the W morgue. 😀☠️⚰️ source: atpota.to/weather/hosts

Excellent point!

Emelia@thisismissem.social · 21h ago

Now might be a good time for people to think about what a PDS server operator covenant looks like, because the Mastodon server covenant gives 3 months to migrate, not 1 month. @jimray.bsky.team

A tale in 3 screenshots: Many people (me included) reached out repeatedly to the @ec.europa.eu asking to include logos of their open social profiles in their website footer, which for YEARS showed only links to closed-source Big Tech American platforms. The change finally happened on May 8. But...

In this BBC interview, Anna Zeiter hijacks the European open-source debate to promote W Social, which is increasingly closed-source and relies on proprietary software to verify its users. By platforming W Social and ignoring Eurosky, the #BBC skipped its homework and missed a major point.

BBC Audio | Business Daily | Why Europe wants to rely less on US tech companies

A push for digital sovereignty is changing how Europe thinks about technology

bbc.com

Love the fact that @w3.org is on @eurosky.social.

Chuffed for @eurosky.social 😍

Kudai@kudai.mu.social · 2d ago

Wow! Look who just opened an account on Eurosky!

Wow! Look who just opened an account on Eurosky!

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)@w3.org · 2d ago

Founded in 1994 by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, W3C gathers international members, staff, and the public to develop open standards focused on accessibility, internationalization, privacy, security, sustainability, to make the Web work — for everyone.

I am happy to announce I am producing a microdocumentary on a topic that starts with W and ends with Social. I hope they do not do anything silly for a couple of weeks, I do not want to redo the thing while editing.

Wsocial editor got lazy and stopped vetting the glowing content of its rotating pool of posters. I'm looking forward to the day when Giannis slips into one his far right, anti migration tirades. In the meantime we just have to content ourselves with a passing observation on how 💩 the app is.

Great article from German T-online. Here's a translated passage. "I’ll say it straight away: W Social is a flop. User numbers are dismal, and even those who have signed up do next to nothing. W Social is more like W Doldrums." #WSocial

あ@aiueo.ooo · 3d ago

EU-Kommissionschefin Von der Leyen unterstützt fragwürdiges Netzwerk www.t-online.de/digital/kolu... Eine Kolumne von Nicole Diekmann Aktualisiert am 16.09.2026 Kagi Translate: “EU Commission President Von der Leyen backs a dubious network” (re: W Social)

Mayor Khan @london.gov.uk is STILL on the promotional website wsocial.news. The account is still on a Bluesky PDS to this day and has never once been on W Social: pds.ls/at://did:plc...

london.gov.uk (did:plc:axuvbckddrg7lwlpjs44o7rg)

Hosted on inkcap.us-east.host.bsky.network

pds.ls

あ@aiueo.ooo · 4mo ago

The thought occurred to me (belatedly) that maybe there are other accounts on the promotional website that aren’t actually on W Social yet. Right now, wsocial.news shows me 4 users who are indeed on W Social and 3 who aren’t: @london.gov.uk, @beate.neos.eu, and @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu.

Always good to repost this old thread by @robin.berjon.com on the merits of building an alternative European tech that is not just a carbon copy of US tech.

Robin Berjon@robin.berjon.com · 5mo ago

Core to Eurosky is the idea that European tech needs to invent its own vision and playbook rather than copy US incumbents. A European Google, European Meta, European X would still be toxic sludge except with a EU sticker. @maxvonthun.bsky.social wrote about this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Very excited to see, I get a feeling we'll be see many more rich embeds popping up across bluesky clients! The Blacksky team did a great job progressively enhancing the embed for this, which is to say if another bluesky client doesn't support it, it falls back to a link embed.

Blacksky Algorithms@blackskyweb.xyz · last mo.

Introducing Discussions - a new way to have conversations on Blacksky 🗣️ Now you can create a dynamic poll right from the post composer in the app to ask questions, get feedback, or to build community around any and every topic you find interesting.

Atmosphere Splitter now supports Bluesky rich text links, implemented using Markdown link syntax. Originally by Scott Jenson @jenson.org as a single HTML file with inline JavaScript, I added OAuth support and then…got carried away and kept going.

Atmosphere Splitter

Split long text into a thread and post it in one go, with images, link cards, quotes and pinned embeds.

splitter.bmannconsulting.com

Hey @eurosky.social / @robin.berjon.com you should contact @theguardian.com in regards to the innovative, non intrusive ways, user verification may be applied in the future without having to feed the most sensitive data into some inscrutabile proprietary software. I'm sure they would be interested.

Kudai@kudai.mu.social · 3d ago

Unsurprisingly, nobody at the Guardian interviewed Wsocial. The micro quote, at the very bottom of the broad article, is lifted from Zeiter’s LinkedIn post, the same one Cybernews and others quoted in January. No journalist spoke to the company.

When you scroll down the heavy and cumbersome Wsocial website, you will get to the social proof element, also known as “As seen in” / “Featured in”. So I did a little search about how the Guardian had apparently featured Wsocial and..

Good morning friends and foes and to my favourite potato bot @poe.atpota.to - tell me, how is W Social doing these days. I notice posts are down, can you check?

a comic about blocking

And one last observation for today: the "45 milion" (now 47+) users and "4milion posts a day" are figures for the whole ATProto network, and nearly all of it is Bluesky. Wsocial own share is a minute fraction. A visitor would naturally read “Part of something bigger” plus big numbers as W size.

So all this bring me back to why Wsocial did not just build it's own independent platform, which, one would think, would have been the logical thing to do. They leached onto Bluesky / ATproto because It was the logical choice for a different product.🧵

What I found interesting is the psychology of W Social uses to sell its product. It's basically telling its users that Wsocial is the place where you can interact with 100% real users and that outside its walls it's hostile territory. It sells a wall that the underlying network doesn’t have.🧵

Correct. Wsocial gets people to sign up for a reusable identity credential, and that credential is the product.🧵

Elena Rossini ⁂@elenarossini.com · 4d ago

My take: #WSocial 's real product may be #WIdentity; they don't care if the network is a read-only ghost town, as long as users provide gov ID. "High quality data is the new oil" they say. And advertisers can microtarget those users (knowing age + nationality) when ads are introduced in 2027-2028

Wsocial may be growing with empty accounts but the real story is that of 52,660 accounts currently hosted on its PDS only 1.6% posted something today and it's use is on the decline.

try to find a woman in the wsocial handle blocklist challenge

Pro tip: get rid of the non-bullet-proof glass, fill your cybertruck with good quality organic compost, and plant some seeds. Wait for next spring and enjoy your garden on wheels.

Jean-Michel Connard@torriangray.bsky.social · 5d ago

Good morning, fellow haters. It remains a great time to be a hater. www.reuters.com/business/aut...