Italian filmmaker, media critic and Fediverse + FOSS advocate living in Paris, France.
My main social media accounts are on the Fediverse; all my links: https://elena.social
Elena Rossini ⁂
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In early June the European Commission unveiled its Tech Sovereignty Plan, which emphasized their commitment to #OpenSource. Just recently, they migrated their main ATproto accounts to #WSocial, a for-profit network that has quietly gone closed-source.
blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-pub...
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 Swe...
Excited to hear @rude1.blacksky.team kick off the Open Social Awards - talking about building movements and everything he’s doing at @blackskyweb.xyz. “If you want to build for community, you should first have one.”
Elena Rossini ⁂
Ben Werdmuller
Hey @wsocial.eu where's the public repo of your app?
github.com/w-social-eu/...
And where's the video of the @anna.wsocial.eu keynote at the Monaco AI conference? Seems like the event org took it down!
Why's that?
Looking forward to your explanation 😎 #Closedsky
til w social client became closed source; a lil concerning since some high level eu officials moved to w instead of eurosky, might be the start of a "big tech but eu" trend
from W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty by @elenarossini.com
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Sascha Pallenberg
#WSocial is ushering in a new era of digital "empowerment": a 13-step process to confirm your identity so you can prove that you're human /s
🔗: aseachange.com/@elena/statu...
I just hope they have fixed their XSS vulnerability by now. Any updates on it @robin.berjon.com ?
This was definitely NOT on my bingo card for this year:
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen taking a moment between G7 meetings to promote the launch of the closed-source, for-profit network #WSocial.
🔗 : web.archive.org/web/20260617...
It may be a harbinger of things to come
How to create an account on #WSocial in 13 easy steps:
1️⃣ choose a username
2️⃣ choose a password
3️⃣ choose your interests
4️⃣ download the #WIdentity app to your phone (two options: Apple AppStore...
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Elena Rossini ⁂
Elena Rossini ⁂
It's been almost ten hours since a meaningful security issue has been publicly reported in W Social's component that is used to check people's identity papers and it's still online.
The establishment always wants its own internet. Different politics, identical structure: wealthy insiders, community infrastructure they didn't build, and openness performed just long enough to matter.
Interesting approach by the @ec.europa.eu to just ignore their own scientific service (JRC), which only 8w ago explicitly recommended to support @eurosky.social in this paper:
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC144603
“Brussels fails to recognise that digital sovereignty isn’t just about who owns or controls your technology. It’s also about having an independent vision for how that technology is designed, developed and deployed.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The European Commission has unveiled its plans for digital sovereignty. Its proposals betray a disappointing lack of vision, says Max von Thun of the Open Markets Institute Europe
We have now joined W, a new European social media network.
We’re present on 15+ platforms, and are especially happy to join one based in Europe and with the ambition to foster open and safer online conversations.
Keep the conversation going - whether from W, Bluesky or other compatible apps.
European Commission
B. Prendergast
Robin Berjon
Eurosky Sebastian
Marleen Stikker
Update it's pretty bad, even if just for reflected XSS
If someone told me this were a credential harvester and not a supposedly real project that the european commission now runs on I'd believe them
