2026-08-11 12:50 UTC
@elena@aseachange.com @pallenberg@mastodon.social So pleased to hear 'W' is tanking.
As far as I could see, it was nothing much more than an underhand attempt at collecting detailed user IDs under the guise of social media.
There was no naiveté in von der Leyen's publicising it's launch - the EC wants your data.
Glad to see so few fell for it! 👏👏
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@elena@aseachange.com 2026-08-11 13:58
@Oyu_Fka@mastodon.social @pallenberg@mastodon.social I wouldn't qualify it as "tanking" because the ship never really left the port 😜 I see it as a Trojan Horse trying to bring in mandatory identity verification for social media platforms. Their biggest mistake / original sin was picking an open protocol - ATproto - and then immediately forking and quietly going closed-source. We can see all their numbers (no bullshitting possible) and they stick out like a sore thumb in the world of FOSS... it's a total clown show