Dear @wsocial.eu, I found evidence of a spam account posting on your network: @tiktok.wsocial.eu (which is also doing brand impersonation). This account has been verified by a government ID (otherwise it would not have been able to post); it has been labeled as "spam" by @bsky.app. #WSocial
Jul 15, 2026 at 8:06 AM
W Social (@wsocial.eu)
It is not strange at all. We where among the first users to signed up. As communicated š wsocial.eu/profile/wsoc...
Wimster9030 šŖšŗ š§šŖ (@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.
Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
Want an update on the Weekend at Bernieās clown show that is W Social? No? Me neither, but here we areā¦ So before we start, letās recount the whole dystopian raison dāĆŖtre of these Davosian clowns: to be a EUĀ®opean āalternative to Xā that Āā cue the 1984 theme tune ā verifies your identity to ensure that only āreal peopleā are on it (real is what your government says it is). Now, letās fast forward to last week, when TikTok set up an account on W Social. Thatās nice, isnāt it? One surveillance capitalist lending their support to another? Kumbaya and all that. The only problem? (spoiler alert), it wasnāt TikTok. (Shocking, I know.) The account, Identity Verifiedā¢ by EU X ā sorry, W Social, was a spam account and immediately labelled as such by BlueSky moderators. (Donāt you love a ādecentralisedā system where a post on an EU server, accessed from another EU server, is moderated by our benevolent Big Brother in Trumpland, by the way? I know it just warms the cockles of my heart. So much sovereignty! But I digressā¦) So @_elena@mastodon.social calls them out (someone has to while @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu is busy preparing for their honeymoon after expressing their undying devotion to W Social recently on every social platformĀ¹): https://mu.social/profile/elenarossini.com/post/3mqob7shxks2t Anna Zeiter ā W CEO, Stanfordās own, and ex-eBay executive (such sovereignty) ā replies with this absolute zinger: > āWe are just verifying if some [sic] is a human and at least 18 years old. Users are then free to choose their own user name. This (human) user apparently chose the name TikTok.ā (https://mu.social/profile/anna.wsocial.eu/post/3mqoepm7m2k2z) Read that as many times as you like until it really sinks in. These incompetent clowns (dangerous competent clowns but incompetent clowns nevertheless) make people go through a ridiculous 13-step identity verification stageĀ² and thenā¦ ummā¦ you get to choose whatever identity you want. š¤”š¤”š¤” Donāt get me wrong, Iām glad theyāre incompetent. It would be worse if they were competent, given theyāre a closed-source venture-capital-funded startup determined to prove your identity. > āYes we have a business model, itās not a philanthropy, we are not a B corp, we actually want to make money.ā ā Anna ZeiterĀ³ But, what I want to know is this: Why has @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu embraced a proprietary, closed-source, corporate ghost town with 14,300 accounts, 90% of which have not posted even once (in other words, with only 1,259 accounts that have ever posted)ā“ when there is a thriving non-corporate fediverse with millions of active people on it. Could it have anything to do with identity verification, surveillance, and control? And if so, why canāt they even get that right? Looking forward to seeing how long @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu can drag the corpse of W Social around before people realise itās dead. Oh, and how does this make the whole āEuropean alternativesā thing look? Not good. Not because there arenāt excellent European alternatives but because the folks at the commission are either too clueless or too corrupt to recognise and support them. So, yeah, howās your Monday going? Ā¹ e.g., https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108, etc. Ā² https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01KVD55YBYVM3B46ACQTECDMT2 Ā³ https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/ (from the YouTube video that they since deleted. Nice transparency there, clowns.) ā“ Run this script in Node 18+ to reproduce the numbers from their PDS yourself: https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/wsocial-pds-stats.js Also see https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/ and https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/ #WSocial #EU #sovereignty #socialMedia #socialNetworking #mastodon #fediverse #activityPub #ATProto #startups #EUCommission
Elena Rossini š (@_elena@mastodon.social)
Scoop: #WSocial has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform. Because my new article contains a possible solution to their problem, by the time you read this the issue may have been fixed. Or not. It has been going on for 7+ days, with complete radio silence by its developers and founders. My exclusive: š : https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/ #SocialMedia #ATproto #RateLimiting
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.
Kirsten Fiedler (@kiki.eurosky.social)
š¤¦āāļø #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" š¤Æ
W Social (@wsocial.eu)
We believe in the need for a global, trusted social media platform owned, run, and hosted in Europe. W is built on verified human users, transparency, privacy, and free speech. https://wsocial.eu/
W Don't Have Time (@wdonthavetime.selfhosted.social)
#WIdentity is the real product. @wsocial.eu is just a testing ground. #WSocialFacts
Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ā (@elena@aseachange.com)
[1 media attachment] Good morning Fedi friends. Is anybody curious about how the #WSocial experiment is going? You know, the private, for profit "European answer to X" endorsed by the European Commission, which is a fork of Bluesky and has quietly gone closed-source before its beta launch (Ć la #TruthSocial)? I've got numbers for you! Nearly two months in, W Social has almost the same number of accounts as #Eurosky... You know, the European fork of Bluesky that does NOT require government IDs to post. W Social: 23.5k accounts Eurosky: 24.8k accounts In order to post on W Social you need to provide your government ID and go through a 13-step verification process. So far 4.5k accounts are verified but only 2036 (as of this morning) have ever published a single post or reply. There is a handy website - https://pdsls.dev - that allows you to monitor the "firehose" of any ATproto-powered PDS. Inspired by @pallenberg and his awesome videos (example: https://mu.social/profile/palle.eurosky.social/post/3mskkqrrc522l) I have been comparing the live activities of the two networks. The difference is SHOCKING. W Social is largely a zombie, dormant network, with a high number of accounts that do not interact. Eurosky by contrast shows very lively activity. The screenshot I grabbed yesterday shows a side-by-side comparison of their firehose over a 27 minute period. W Social had a total of 240 events (follows, likes, posts...) whereas Eurosky registered 7596 events in the same time interval. A couple of days ago I downloaded their PDS and saw that 67,8% of their accounts have 0 follows, 0 followers and 0 posts. That's what I mean when I call it a "zombie network." W Social's CEO says they plan to start monetizing by introducing ads in 2027. WITH THESE NUMBERS?!? Sure Jan. I love how with the transparency of open data you can't really use the standard playbook of CEO hype and hubris. Because we can all see their numbers. And they are BAAAAD. I have been feelingā¦
It looks like W Identity, the part of @wsocial.eu that checks your papers before you go in, has a very basic XSS on its admin backend, found hours after launch. This seems almost too predictable... Cyberfriends, any thoughts on how bad? 23.social/@kantorkel/116767220594438841
kantorkel (@kantorkel@23.social)
23.social@anna.wsocial.eu looks like bluesky is no different to X bot spamfest. Wsocial ABSOLUTELY needs to have a toggle in the settings to HIDE non-verified users. In other words there should be a way to interact ONLY with wsocial users without any other servers on AT.
The thought occurred to me (belatedly) that maybe there are other accounts on the promotional website that arenāt actually on W Social yet. Right now, wsocial.news shows me 4 users who are indeed on W Social and 3 who arenāt: @london.gov.uk, @beate.neos.eu, and @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu.
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@london.gov.uk is still on wsocial.news and is still not actually on W Social. Itās been long enough to really make it look like it could be the Greta Thunberg thing all over again Sources: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc:axuvbckddrg7lwlpā¦ blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-sociā¦
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:
This is our blog article explaining why @leafplaza.eu filed a complaint against the @ec.europa.eu after their public endorsement of @wsocial.eu and missing transparency in the process. We hope @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu takes this matter seriously. leafplaza.leaflet.pub/3moxlxlfl2s2a
LeafPlaza filed a complaint against the European Commission. Here is why.
leafplaza.leaflet.pub
LeafPlaza ā¢ EU-sovereign social platform compatible with the ATP
@leafplaza.eu just presented an official complain. Also, setup a whole chain of official follow ups on this complain. We know our rights, no other European ATP project has been giving the advantage W Social received and that goes against Commission Decision (EU) 2024/3083 - Art. 4.
