Sunday October 18th – 8:40am
15 minute firehose comparison between #WSocial (48.2k accounts) and #Eurosky (36.9k accounts). W has 151 events (likes, posts, follows, re-posts) whereas Eurosky has over 5 THOUSAND events.
Please DO NOT call W a "ghost town", it really triggers their leaders and MEGA fans, ok? They plan to monetize their platform in 2027, ok? Ok?!?
Hilariously, their co-founder even came up with the hashtag #NOGhostTown 👻
@_elena@mastodon.social keep going. You are doing journalism here.
Thank you for taking the time to do this and write it up.
@onepict@chaos.social thank you Esther! I really appreciate your encouragement because I'm on the receiving end of so much bullying by W Social MEGA fans, ouf. Reporting on this topic is not for the faint of heart 🥲
@_elena@mastodon.social I think you've got an article series on your hands.
Plus the fact that minor accounts were created and the accounts are still up there is alarming.
@onepict@chaos.social I've already published 6 articles about them and I'm feeling super guilty this clown show is taking time away from me promoting the Fediverse: https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/
But no one in mainstream media is covering W in a fair way... therefore I persist 🥲
And apologies dear Fedi friends if I continue to write about #WSocial, but I have my reasons:
The platform is fully endorsed by the European Commission!!! With von der Leyen taking time away from G7 meetings to do a video ad for their launch (!!!)
The #openweb #privacy destroying #EUKidsAct has been discussed between W and the EC during a meeting in early September. If W Identity is the thing implementing it in Europe, we're all in trouble as they publish personal details to the open web