Seems to be regular old #corruption at @EUCommission

EU institutions need to get better at saying no to corporate lobbyists.

#eupol

@aral

them going closed source isn't that surprising and something Bluesky has chosen to make possible for themselves and others from the beginning via their licensing choices that stand in stark contrast to Mastodon's.

Personally I don't really find Eurosky all that much better because they're only contributing to the overall Bluesky ecosystem anyway and their messaging and how they are set up doesn't really make me very confident about how European they are either.

@EUCommission @aral

I read your article, pretty nice investigation are you in ! - in fact I keeping reading your posts also the info and adventures from Gina too.

As always politician and big guys trying to use the miss information to achieve their stupid stuffs - It's funny and curious what EU commission statement publishes vs reality !

They think they can hide it by adding # "commented" character or as we noted here by deletion or setting as private an entire project - no cool no good no sovereignty

Once upon a time, JAVA™ was open source.

The only source whose you could be sure to have an eternal access to is the one you manage yourself, open or closed.

Opening source is mean of extending collaboration, not a guarantee of sovereignity.

An example is the French Tresor. As far as i know, it owns its computer infrastructure and has an internal computer science team. But the software is closed source.

@EUCommission @aral

Well, well, well... Who would have thought?

The good old EU bait and switch 😩

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/2026061708…

I fear this may be a harbinger of things to come: MANDATORY AGE VERIFICATION for social media across Europe. I hope I'm wrong on this.

#privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #EUBigTech

Sigh

@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).

I am not a programmer, at all, zero knowledge, but for 20 years, I've been listening to OS evangelicals tell me how important OS is

and you know what ?
I don't care
I really don't

and I am, among my entire circle of friends/family/coworkers, the "odd guy" who cares about stuff like this

so if I don't care, I would guess that 98% of the population doesn't care

so maybe OS evangelicals need a better message ?

This is a tactic that is getting more and more common. It's especially so in the VC funded, quick growth bullshit going on.

Crypto is a big one When I was researching blockchain a bit I bought a couple sets of Tensor cards. This was Open Source when I got it and they were still peddling themselves as Open Source last I saw after they'd quietly changed all their licenses in all their repositories.

Happens in the services too though. Hashicorp. Bait and switch.

*dons tin foil hat*

When something this fishy is going on you can be sure that a lot of money is changing hands and a "not-for-public-knowledge" agenda is being implemented behind the scenes.

IMO the answers to your top 3 questions are probably something like:
1) shhh of course but I won't acknowledge that to you.

2) irrelevant--the image of being "the"
European alternative is the important thing, and besides (shhh) some components need to be hosted in places where certain inconvenient EU privacy laws don't apply, and

3) Because we wouldn't be able to manipulate it or any other open source platform to our goals.

@EUCommission @aral

And there's more sad news on this trap
@EUCommission @aral
@rysiek

journa.host/@occrp/11676656778…

OCCRP (@occrp@journa.host)

Attached: 1 image OCCRP has today announced a strategic partnership with W Social. “W” is a social media network designed to counter the rise of bot-driven disinformation and data privacy erosion on mainstream platforms.

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