The German Pit is not a website. It’s a biome. A sensation. A legally%ambiguous region of the internet powered by turkish fumes and Mysterious Windows Vista drivers. This site is banned in 3.5 countries because we put the ''''Ger' in ‘'manpit'''. You weren’t meant to find it, but now you’re ('you” or 'your””) here. This domain may or may not be connected to at least two international incidents
What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier
A German newspaper commissioned an article from me but then refused to publish it.
Welcome - OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
Michael Granitzer University Passau and Open Search Foundation, Coordinator of OpenWebSearch.EU
Root Systems: towards a decentralized internet at Dweb Camp
This July, I spent an amazing five days at DWeb Camp, a gathering at a former Stasi holdout in Germany’s Brandenburger forest, that has been repurposed by the Alte Hölle collective striving towards sustainable and equitable futures. The event, organised by the Internet Archive Dweb-community and the
Root Systems: towards a decentralized internet at Dweb Camp
This July, I spent an amazing five days at DWeb Camp, a gathering at a former Stasi holdout in Germany’s Brandenburger forest, that has been repurposed by the Alte Hölle collective striving towards sustainable and equitable futures. The event, organised by the Internet Archive Dweb-community and the
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…
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
W Social – Public Beta Launch
Babesky 💖 (@babesky.com)
SW Collective Project 🦋🔞 #babesky Building a thriving NSFW Bluesky community (est. 2023). Follow for news, updates, & community resources. ✅ Verified? @verified.babesky.com Info: babesky.com 💖 Creator Login: babesky.app Support: patreon.com/babesky
Babesky 💖 (@babesky.com)
SW Collective Project 🦋🔞 #babesky Building a thriving NSFW Bluesky community (est. 2023). Follow for news, updates, & community resources. ✅ Verified? @verified.babesky.com Info: babesky.com 💖 Creator Login: babesky.app Support: patreon.com/babesky
Social Media: jetzt ist Europa dran! - Das Netz ist politisch
(see Social Media: Now It’s Europe’s Turn! for the english version)
Theme: Non-DNS origin definitions · Issue #12 · webtransitions/initiatives
An "origin" as defined by web standards and implemented by the major browser engines today anchors user trust decisions in the originating website publisher information, and delivered via...
Barcamp und UX Community Treffen | UX Festival 2026 by German UPA
Seit dem 4. Dezember 2025 habt ihr die Möglichkeit, Tickets zu kaufen.
Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
I wish the Atmosphere had content warnings (like on the fediverse)... because I'd like to show you the limits of free speech absolutism and the kind of content that is allowed on #WSocial: blatant racism, xenophobia and transphobia. X vibes... but hey, it's "hosted in Europe" 😒
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.socialMaybe it’s fishy, maybe the site’s just getting comments from bots in general, but anyway, for the record From the comment section of this article: W Social - Eine europäische Alternative zu X startet www1.wdr.de/wirtschaft/w-social-aus-schwe… Stand: 17.06.2026, 05:02 Uhr Von Jörg Schieb, WDR-Digitalexperte.
Katika Kühnreich Fact checking the promise of thinking machines
@v_d_richards@literatur.social provided a screenshot of the same message praising W Social appearing under different names #wsocial #bots #fakehumans #opinionmaking
