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Poe@poe.atpota.to · 1h ago

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

Elena Rossini ⁂@elenarossini.com · 6h ago

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...

a screenshot of the footer of the European Commission's website with text that reads Follow us and logos of Facebook, Instagram, X and LinkedInThe same screenshot of the European Commission's website footer with text on the top right that reads "May 8, 2026" and Follow us with logos of Mastodon, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Facebook and YouTube
Pablo Soria-Rojas ۞🔰@pablo.sr · 6d ago

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.

Kudai@kudai.mu.social · yesterday

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.

A screenshot from front page of W Social main website, that includes several rotating posts from a selected pool of people. One says "Good morning friends of #wsocial! I’ve noticed that if I don’t open the app for a few hours, my session expires and I have to log in again. Does this happen to anyone else?"
Kudai@kudai.mu.social · 2d ago

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 · 2d 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)

あ@aiueo.ooo · 2d ago

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.

Kudai@kudai.mu.social · 2d ago

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...

𝕮 • Chris Shank@chrisshank.me · last mo.

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.

Discussion example: Who was the villain in The Wire?
Kudai@kudai.mu.social · 2d ago

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 · 2d 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.

Kudai@kudai.mu.social · 2d ago

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..

W in media with logos of Heise, OCCRP, The Guarian, Globenot and CT
Kudai@kudai.mu.social · 3d ago

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.

From the Wsocial home page "Part of something bigger" W is built on the AT-Protocol , an open standard for global social networking. 4 million+posts per day, 45 million+users in the network.
Kudai@kudai.mu.social · 3d ago

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.🧵

Kudai@kudai.mu.social · 3d ago

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.🧵

Kudai@kudai.mu.social · 4d ago

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.

Statistics from pds.wsocial.network: 52,660 hosted accounts as of November 6 (up 5,582, or 11.9%, since October 8), with 859 active that day (1.6%). Two line charts show accounts hosted per day rising steadily from ~45,000 to over 50,000, and daily active accounts declining roughly 1,000 and 2,000.