@feb @Lioh not to sound cocky but I don't think you can find someone who goes into more detail than me 😆
The full series: https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/ start at the bottom... give or take 40 minutes reading time 🤗
@feb wie ist das einzuschätzen?
#WSocial startet heute "Das europäische soziale Netzwerk für verifizierte Menschen".
Es wird nichts anderes als ein kometenhafter Start erwartet. Die Basis bilden 419 Menschen auf wSocial + die vielen unverifizierten Menschen auf den anderen PDS'en.
Es wird nichts anderes als ein kometenhafter Start erwartet. Die Basis bilden 419 Menschen auf wSocial + die vielen unverifizierten Menschen auf den anderen PDS'en.
@feb wie ist das einzuschätzen?
#Linktipp: W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/
Elena Rossini
W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty
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-source.
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@Sascha thank you for sharing Sascha 🙏
Will Tuladhar-Douglas
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#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:
Elena Rossini
W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty
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-source.
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Elena Rossini
I got my PhD almost exactly 10 years ago. I have a permanent position as an academic at a reasonable research university. I have held some version of this position for the last 8.5 years. I am also a brown woman who is much shorter than average, and I don't wear makeup. At conferences, I go out of my way to talk to students to meet new faces, and also to help them build a network. All of this is just context for the rant that is incoming.
Over the last 10 years, in more or less every research event I go to, someone has asked me if I am a student. I proceed to explain that I am not. I have mostly no problem with the people who apologise at this point and move on.
But a majority of people double down at this point. With things like: "but you look so young" or "take it as a compliment" or "so... <dubious look> postdoc?" or "I thought you were a student of <slightly older white tall male collaborator>'s".
This needs to stop! It's not a compliment - they're implicitly disregarding 10 years' worth of my work. On one hand it tells me that they're placing me (in their mind) on the bottom rung of the academic ladder. On the other hand it also exposes their biases, which is a whole problem in itself.
I have definitely made incorrect assumptions about someone's "academic level" in the past, but over the years I have learned to know better.
So, PSA to everyone. Don't assume, ask. Or better yet, don't try to rank people from the outset. It will go a long way towards making events more inclusive.
In my time in academia I discovered that if I just assumed everyone who seemed interesting was a full professor (1) I was almost always wrong and (2) the world instantly became a better place. It's so much fun to say to someone "You really should be running a research group!"
Will Tuladhar-Douglas
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"when did Star Trek get woke??"
In the very first episode of Star Trek: the original series, we see a white Captain reporting to his black Admiral boss, a black woman on the bridge just a couple years after Jim Crow was abolished, wearing a short skirt (a symbol of feminist liberation at the time), a Japanese helmsman on the bridge only 20 years after the internment camps, a Russian crewmate on the bridge during the Cold War [edit: actually did not appear until Season 2 but the point stands], and the foundation of the modern concept of queercoding.
In the very first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, we see male crossdressing crew members, a female officer on the bridge in charge of security, a literal ship's counselor stationed at all times on the bridge, a single mom raising her teenage son on her own while juggling a full career in medicine, a blind mechanic whose "disability" is shown to be a strength, and an angry, all-powerful godlike being who is revealed to be simply a petulant child masquerading as a deity.
In the very first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, we see a black man gain a powerful command position, respect the hell out of the customs of a religion he didn't understand, show respect and equal treatment to members of three other alien races he didn't understand, appoint a female guerilla fighter who defeated imperialist fascists to a position of authority within his administration and defer to her judgement in areas of her expertise, accept his friend's gender change, and tell his son he loves him.
Star Trek has always been woke. You just grew up to be a bad person.
@_elena do you think you can make some posts on Reddit too? Buyfromeu sub doesn't seem like it's informed about it
@lefteristrip23 feel free to share on Reddit!
Will Tuladhar-Douglas
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I've come to think that caring for people requires a degree of resistance to the culture around us. Not because people are bad, but because so much of the dominant culture is built around values that put profit, status, and competition ahead of human need.
In that sense, care becomes a quiet act of rebellion.
#openweb #mutualaid #care #solidarity #deathcult #climatechaos
Latest SCOOP on #WSocial:
The European Commission Spokesperson for tech sovereignty Thomas Reigner just migrated his ATproto account from Bluesky (open source) to W Social (closed-source). How ironic!
🔗 : https://clearsky.app/thomasregnier.ec.europa.eu/profile
And now excuse me as I go pick up my child from daycare. I'll be intermittently online for the rest of the day. Thank you for all your boosts and comments!
#DigitalSovereignty #OpenWashing #EuropeWashing #SovereigntyWashing
@_elena do you think you can make some posts on Reddit too? Buyfromeu sub doesn't seem like it's informed about it
@_elena @EUCommission @aral W Social has all the checkmarks for a scam to collect public funding...
Please use the money to found open source project that actually do work for all europeans (and humanity in general).
RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116764738020685078
Thinking of Jürgen Möllemann, who was forced to demission as German minister of economy (and vice-chancellor) in 1993 for advertising for a shopping cart token using his ministry’s letterhead.
Tempi passati.
@mxp tempi passati indeed 😭
@_elena @EUCommission @aral hmm. I get it is not great. But is it better than meta? Most of my family and friends use meta services. So if it could be an alternative I could leave meta for a better option. Even though it isnt perfect
@Fabirucho Eurosky is around, based on ATproto, European infrastructure, is open source and doesn't require ID verification
#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:
Elena Rossini
W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty
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-source.
⁂
More from
Elena Rossini
@_elena @EUCommission @aral hmm. I get it is not great. But is it better than meta? Most of my family and friends use meta services. So if it could be an alternative I could leave meta for a better option. Even though it isnt perfect
RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116764738020685078
Thinking of Jürgen Möllemann, who was forced to demission as German minister of economy (and vice-chancellor) in 1993 for advertising for a shopping cart token using his ministry’s letterhead.
Tempi passati.
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@altim open-washing, sovereignty-washing, Euro-washing... they should open a chain of laundromats 😆
