#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:
🔗: blog.elenarossini.com/w-social…
#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #BigTech
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-so…Elena Rossini
Souverain 🛡️
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Troed Sångberg
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Seems to be regular old #corruption at @EUCommission
EU institutions need to get better at saying no to corporate lobbyists.
#eupol
@aral
ikuturso 🇪🇺
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •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
jose
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •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
Elena Rossini 🌈
in reply to jose • • •sebulon
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •tanavit
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •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
Saito Network
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Well, well, well... Who would have thought?
The good old EU bait and switch 😩