Quit* W Social

I did it. I finally migrated to @eurosky.social. Thanks to @support.wsocial.eu for fixing a bug that prevented me from. Big thanks to @liabelle.me and @caesar.dev for staying in touch with me at any time! My reason for the migration from @wsocial.eu to @eurosky.social:

Under the 1st option only the name is said to be public. You still publish nationality & birth-year date for those users. Nothing in your privacy notice, your TOS or this screen allows that. @ec.europa.eu & @ad4europe.eurosky.social is this the platform you want to endorse, or time for your own PDS?

Hi Jan. Thanks for sharing. Do you believe that the average user will understand fully that their full legal name, nationality and in many cases *real* birth dates and email addresses (We can send you DIDs in private) will be published to the open web, where W cannot retain control?

Unfortunately, many Euros I speak to unironically want this, as some sort of "protection from Russian influence", when Russian influence campaigns use domestic influencers, and obtaining residency in the EU is quite easy (Malta)

And a follow up question. Who are you? Why are you anonymous?

This article was written, as to my knowledge, by Sascha Pallenberg. He has an account with EuroSky, not with W Social. If you don’t like the content of his articles, you also need to report this to the Content Moderation Team of EuroSky. I hope this was helpful. Thank you! 👋🏻

I understand perfectly well. My questions concern the people behind the flood of content about W since we launched our beta in June. Who are they? Who funds them? What other financial interests might they have? And why is the site anonymous? Those are reasonable questions about transparency.

I wonder who runs W and what interests they have. This is the typical right/far-right response when anybody complains or protests about anything, start speculating about someone paying people to... complain?

even if you're going to do legal identity verification (which sucks!), i don't like that they didn't even attempt to make the user own their own data in their own repo, and make verification only be a record with a strongRef in W's repo. why publish full names and birthdates to W's own repo? wild

Dear friends who don't speak German: Go to YouTube ASAP, turn on subtitles → autogenerated translation and watch this video! TL;DR: #WSocial is posting legal names, nationalities and approx. birthdays of verified users as a public record on the Atmosphere. Confronted, they claim it's "by design" 🤯

1/5 We’ve upgraded W’s verified badge to give you more context about the person behind the keyboard. Real humans. More trust. Your real name stays optional.

birthDateApprox stores a generated date: 1 January of the birth year, shifted randomly within a 24-month range. The day and month have no connection to your birthday, and even the year may differ. We use it to derive an age range, balancing privacy with context about who is behind the keyboard.

We understand that you may prefer not to share your age range and nationality publicly. If so, you can delete your account under Settings → Account → Delete account. You can read more about how it works and the reasoning behind it here: wsocial.eu/profile/wsocial.eu/post/3mxgl…

Ok — I've seen enough. #WSocial is the politics of Elon Musk meets the accountability of Mark Zuckerberg.