Fedica (@fedica.com)

We've been doing social media analytics for well over a decade, no other social media platform provided public age data per account like this Facebook has user_birthday but users must authorize the app to read their own data, not of any account! Have we not learned anything from Cambridge Analytica

󱤑󱥡 (@stau.space)

If you want people to stop assuming things about your motives then you should be as clear as possible about your motives and answer the question on everyone's mind: Why is WSocial publishing personal information? Not answering this question will simply lead to more confusion...

DavidB (@david.eurosky.social)

"But why so much hostility?" Because WSocial has been dishonest since day one. The first time I heard of you, it was an ad saying that there was no European social media. Which was your first lie of a long series. "We're building a new social media." Another lie, you're a fork of Bluesky. And so on.

David (@noz.am)

"Why assume the worst about our motives" says while accusing people of being paid by "someone"

Alexandre Plennevaux 🇧🇪🇪🇺 (@pixeline.be)

Interesting point: "The only way to make sense of the European Commission's embrace of WSocial is that maybe it sees it as a trial run for MANDATORY age verification for social media across the European Union." @elenarossini.com

Ricardo J. Méndez (@ricardo.bsky.social)

If WSocial sold people on the idea that everyone they would interact with is ID-verified, then indeed, every single open ATProto community would act as a back door of sorts. The only way for them to deliver would be to de-federate entirely. And it's always a bad idea to bet against openness.

Wimster9030 🇪🇺 🇧🇪 (@wimster9030.wsocial.eu)

@wsocial.eu - I was one of the first to subscribe after Davos, but now I wonder what's the use of WSocial. We had to show our ID to get access, but now it seems there are many backdoors without the need for verification. Maybe I just go back to Mastodon. Nice try, but I feel a little betrayed.

Wimster9030 🇪🇺 🇧🇪 (@wimster9030.wsocial.eu)

I know, Daniel, but that's not the way WSocial "sold" it to us. We could only access trough ID-verification so we know for 100% they are EU and a "real person". That was the whole point. So we went trough that process, but now it seems that the backdoor are the other ATProt platforms to get in too.

Emelia (@thisismissem.social)

Their code was messy to say the least & did things that simply made no sense to do if you want to preserve interoperability. It looked more vibe coded than written by a competent developer. A few of us tried to nudge them in the right direction, and then they went closed source.

Emelia (@thisismissem.social)

It's pretty funny how everyone has seemingly forgotten why W Social went closed source: initially they were open source, and various people from the community looked through their fork of the bluesky codebases, and went "lol wat no".

Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu)

Warm Welcome to all followers on W 👌 User friendly 🔓 Open source AT Protocol 🔒 Privacy preserving 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Humans only / No bots And 🇪🇺 European!