I'm glad that my article helped bring attention to this problem - which had bricked your network for all new users who had joined starting on June 22 (3000+ accounts, for 7+ days - I've got .csv records to prove it). Happy that my proposed solution worked 🫡
W Social
Some W users may experience temporary profile issues (e.g. "Profile not found" or "Invalid handle"). We’re actively resolving a minor AT Protocol issue and will update you shortly. Thank you for your patience - and for helping shape the future of European digital infrastructure.
Jun 30, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
#WSocial posted a message on their official account talking about "temporary profile issues" for "some W users." Reality (exposed in my latest article): their network was BRICKED for ALL NEW USERS who joined starting on June 22 (some 3100+ accounts out of 5000) for 7+ days. An amateur reporter and self-hosting newbie (aka me) figured out the problem and the solution, bringing attention to this matter. I had to respond: https://mu.social/profile/elenarossini.com/post/3mpig4ggkpk2q hope others chime in 🤭
Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image 📝 #WSocial state of the network - Friday July 10th 📣 for those who are curious about it, considering the enthusiastic endorsement by prestigious European institutions #OpenData allows me to crunch numbers. On day 23 since its beta launch in Brussels, W Social has 11291 accounts: - 469 new users since yesterday - 899 users have published one or more posts - 72 new users posting since yesterday - 92% have never* published a single post *may be related to #WIdentity and its 13-step process
Found out we were leaking user session tokens into logs
362 votes, 55 comments. I was reviewing logs for a separate bug and noticed a few long strings that looked too random to be normal. Turned out they…
Social Network User Data Storage
Social Network User Data Storage
Meeting notes april 1st, 2025
Quick catch up with [[Sam Gbafa]], founder of [[TinyCloud]], who I've worked with hacking on various local first / user owned data / identity stuff for a whi...
Updating Collection not working + getting booted to login · Issue #627 · cosmik-network/semble
Hi, When I'm updating Collections, two things happen: Booted back to login page Repo record is updated but Semble page is not It doesn't matter which changes are made, be it title, descript...
@ronentk.me I mapped the data in rdf.scios.tech to network.cosmik.connection records, then analyzed them as a connected component stigmergic.latha.org/island/nandi.latha.org/3fb497…
If you've backfilled the network before, you probably noticed the 65k bridged accounts you couldn't sync. …until a week ago! Bridgy Fed's `getRepo` is now open, and served by Hubble!
Hubble first launch: 1500x cheaper getRepo for Bridgy Fed
updates.microcosm.blueReal time collective sensemaking in action on @semble.so - I wanted to track the W Social story so I created an open collection. 2 days later it has 27 cards, 7 followers and 7 contributors. And I have a much better handle on what’s going on! >
Ronen Tamari
Started an open W Social collection on Semble to help track developments, feel free to contribute!
Another day, another odd edge case migration thing to troubleshoot. Looks like the entryway updates the user's PLC did doc if on a Bluesky PDS, and it does this by a serviceAuth token. If you migrated back, but did not update your verification method when you moved, you can lock yourself out..
💥 It took 72 hours to register the second thousand accounts on @eurosky.social 🎉 I expected more movement over the weekend, but apparently, people prefer to migrate during their working hours 😁
Real time collective sensemaking in action on @semble.so - I wanted to track the W Social story so I created an open collection. 2 days later it has 27 cards, 7 followers and 7 contributors. And I have a much better handle on what’s going on! >
Ronen Tamari
Started an open W Social collection on Semble to help track developments, feel free to contribute!
