"Yes we have a business model, it's not a philanthropy, we are not a B corp, we actually want to make money. - Anna Zeiter, CEO of #wsocial
They're talking about 50 billion Euros per year. You want to help them make some money, right? So it "stays in Europe".
Their proposal also aligns nicely with ending anonymity online. They'd require government ID verification for account creation.
I’ll skip it, thanks.
Was hoping for a privacy-preserving platform based on open source.
It’s fails on both those counts.
No different from X or Threads. So what’s the point?
A big nope!
#WSocial will open up their beta program today… and I have a SCOOP for you: it appears that they have quietly gone closed-source!
This is ironic, considering that the @EUCommission just unveiled their Tech Sovereignty Package, emphasizing the importance of #OpenSource. And yet they have migrated their main ATproto accounts to W Social - whose code can no longer be inspected!
My full article - with a great analysis by @aral:
🔗: blog.elenarossini.com/w-social…
#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #BigTech
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-so…Elena Rossini
