Dear Fedi friends,

It may be time for a re-introduction: I'm Elena, an Italian creative (writer, photographer, filmmaker) living in Paris, France.

You may have initially gotten to know me for my advocacy for the Fediverse (like my Fedi intro video: blog.elenarossini.com/fedivers… or my blog or my Fediverse stock photo). So, you may have been a bit confused lately, over all my critical posts about the new network W Social. Why do I keep bringing it up?

I believe that W Social - and its required, companion app W Identity - are an existential threat to the Fediverse. So I'm fighting tooth and nail to oppose and resist them.

Why? The European Commission has enthusiastically embraced this new hard fork of Bluesky that requires age verification. Even Ursula von der Leyen advertised the launch of W Social in between G7 meetings last week.

I have MOUNTAINS of evidence of poor planning, extremely lax security, use of U.S. Big Tech platforms for something that purports to be "based in Europe, for the world."

Why is it a threat for the Fediverse? The only way to make sense of the European Commission's embrace of this platform is that maybe it sees it as a trial run for MANDATORY age verification for social media across the European Union.

No Fediverse app has infrastructure in place to comply. And if a mandate is introduced, it would spell the end of the open social web and internet anonymity... like Chat Control, but basically killing the Fediverse.

I find it EXTREMELY disturbing to see the enthusiastic embrace of W Social by the European Commission. It took them YEARS to change their website footer and add Mastodon and Bluesky instead of X. In the span of 5 weeks, they replaced the Bluesky logo (a butterfly) with the "W" from W Social.

All my posts about W Social from last week went viral. My articles have been quoted in articles in French, Dutch and German news sites (blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-so…).

I have held back from sharing more evidence I found because I don't want to appear like a bully who promotes pile-ons. I'm a nice, sweet person, I promise! I take ZERO pleasure in writing about W Social, but I have unwittingly become an expert on them - after researching them for 5 months. So here I am.

I will keep investigating them. If you don't want to hear about this topic anymore - I would understand - you can mute the hashtags #Wsocial and #DubyaSocial (that's a pretty apt way to describe them IMHO).

Peace out.

#introduction #reintroduction

Už tuto neděli 21.6. v 16:00 se v Praze koná další demonstrace na podporu veřejnoprávních médií proti jejich zestátnění. Tentokrát to bude pochod od stanice metra Pražského povstání před budovu ČT. 📺

Tentokrát nevím, jestli se zvládnu zúčastnit, protože má být horko a mě se z veder bohužel dělá špatně. 😟🥵 Ale pokusím se. Pokud aspoň trošku můžete, přidejte se, prosím. 🙏

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#média #ČT #ČRo #milionchvilek #demonstrace #demokracie #politika #Česko

Nový pravidla pro elektrokoloběžky v praxi 👀
Věděl jsem, že mají mít registraci, ale netušil jsem, že dostanou dospělou SPZ. I samolepku z STK to mělo.

Nebudu lhát, trochu jsem se ho lekl, když mě podjížděl 😄

cc: @micromobilita

Průvodce fediversem, na kterém jsem teď v posledních dnech pracoval, je technicky hotov a mají ho v rukou korektoři, aby ho jazykově zpřístupnili i lidem vládnoucím nejen češtinem, ale i češtinou.

Tak nějak si myslím, že se vám to bude líbit, a nerad bych, abyste mi vičýtaly nějakí to nesprávní y.

#fedik #fediverse

Za 79 dní má Google v plánu další velký krok k uzavření #Android-u. Tady je to přehledně sepsané:

keepandroidopen.org/cs/

This is Haru and Tanos. Haru is the black cat. We adopted him from a shelter at two years old, after he lived there his whole life. Tanos is a Malinois. We took him in when his owner could not keep him anymore.
Life can change fast, animals are often the first to lose their home. This is why I made #PawFed, a shared map for animal welfare. Not many people use it yet, but it is worth sharing. It relies fully on #ActivityPub and uses #OSM.

pawfed.org/how-it-works