Social Media: Now It's Europe's Turn! - Das Netz ist politisch

Social Media: jetzt ist Europa dran! - Das Netz ist politisch

(see Social Media: Now It’s Europe’s Turn! for the english version)

W-Social: What does sovereignty mean for social media? – Open Future

The European Commission’s move to W-Social frames it as a European alternative to X, but its closed-source code and reliance on Bluesky’s infrastructure show that sovereign social media requires open infrastructure—not European ownership alone.

Building resilient social media

Next week I’ll be in Berlin, speaking at a Franco-German “Summit on European Digital Sovereignty” satellite event to help launch…

Braucht es Social Media «made in Europe»?

W Social und Eurosky wollen alles besser machen. Was taugen sie?

🇪🇺🌐 The future of social media may be decided in Europe

A survey of European AT Protocol projects, including 4 mini case-studies

Kann Eurosky den Europäern endlich die Kontrolle über ihre Social-Media-Daten zurückgeben?

Eurosky startet ein nutzereigenes Social-Media-Ökosystem in Europa und fordert Big Tech mit DSGVO-konformen Datenservern auf Basis des AT-Protokolls heraus. Privatsphäre und Wahlfreiheit für Alltagsnutzer.

W Social Netzwerk: Fake-Zahlen, Rassismus und Totenstille!

Was ein Absturz! Als (weitere) Twitter-Alternative aus Europa mit viel medialem TamTam gestartet, zeigt W Social was passiert, wenn Social Media-Hobbyisten meinen eine Plattform gruenden zu muessen. Gefakete Engagement-Zahoen, Blocklisten gegen LGBTQ-Accounts, Remigrations-Grafiken von Neonazis und all dies wird noch von der Fuehrungsriege unterstuetzt. Willkommen

W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty | Hacker News

And weirdly, there was never a peep about this in the press - while the W Social launch was on national news and a bunch of high-profile EU politicians immediately joined. What's going on here?

Eurosky dawns – Open Future

The Eurosky initiative is building European social media infrastructure on the ATProtocol, representing a new step in Europe's digital sovereignty agenda as policymakers seek alternatives to Big Tech platforms that serve public interest rather than commercial imperatives.

Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization

The social media ecosystem appears to be in flux. Twitter’s rebranding to X has come to symbolize a broader reorganization of online publics – political reshuffling, user attrition, and uncertainty over the role of legacy platforms. Simultaneously, the shift from text-based, networked feeds toward algorithmically curated, short-form video has accelerated, with TikTok setting the pace for the wider ecosystem [18, 14, 16]. At the same time, everyday communication increasingly migrates from large, open networks to semi-private spaces such as group chats and messaging apps. Commentators describe a digital public sphere in transition: smaller, more fragmented, less dominated by traditional social networking sites, and rise of more broadcast-oriented forms of media – with some even suggesting that we are seeing the beginning of the end of the social media era.

Twitter-Alternative W Social will keine linke Bubble sein

Jetzt geht W Social an den Start. Die europäische X-Konkurrentin verspricht ein Netz ohne Musk-Einfluss, ohne Bots – und will bewusst keine «linke Bubble» werden.

FR#166 – No Change

Many people in Europe see the open social web as a path to digital sovereignty. This week demonstrated a problem: the assumption that European governments actually want to be sovereign.

Fact check: Is the EU launching a social media platform called 'W'?

Viral posts claiming the EU is launching its own social media platform to counter X, in the wake of various scandals, are misleading.

oso.social — we zijn [bijna] open

Open, sociale media. Jouw data wordt niet verhandeld, geen misleidende algoritmes

Archived Fact-Checked Media — MediaVault

“Dane z naszego nasluchu siatki rusnet (około 500 kont) działającej w 🇵🇱 social media jednoznacznie nie potwierdzają spadku narracyjnej aktywności z powodu uszkodzenia infrastruktury #Yandex Klasyczny weekend https://t.co/7twOdKywe1”

Public Service Social Media as a Democratic Safeguard | TechPolicy.Press

Christine Galvagna proposes an EU fund to support decentralized, public service focused social media networks to protect digital rights and democracy.