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Elena Rossini
Personal blog · blog.elenarossini.comwebculture
Elena Rossini's personal blog at blog.elenarossini.com covers web and culture. Since 2024, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Elena Rossini's posts critiquing W Social, a European social network for verified humans. They cover fictional metrics, traffic throttling, and the Bluesky trademark dispute.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Essays by Italian film director and photographer Elena Rossini - about creativity, digital literacy and harnessing the power of the internet for change
Most-linked posts?
- W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-08
- Has W Social switched to closed source?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-06-17
- W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-25
What Hacker News says?
This, a thousand times this. A network where mandatory government id is fine. Sure it maybe run by the shadiest sharks. But these are sharks that are pushing for the anti-internet, the anti-speech, the anti-privacy, and that's all that matters to the politicos of the world right now. https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and... Left right center: every politician is aligned on trying to put the De…
Comment linking /w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/
on “Has W Social switched to closed source?”Submitted Has W Social switched to closed source? as a story · 12 points
HN discussionReally sad seeing europa.eu and high profile politicians switching switching to such obviously bullshit low effort hacks. Ursala von der Leyen just joined and fired off a hello, for example. Many agitated replies to it, discussing the matter, with lots and lots of discontent for W Social: https://bsky.app/profile/vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu/post/3moio... There's two really good blog posts in these W Social people, with…
Comment linking /w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/
on “Has W Social switched to closed source?”Submitted How W Social Makes Their Verified Users Personal Details Visible on the Open Web as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/ Basically, because they didn't warn Bluesky that they were going live, they had their traffic heavily trottled and they were unable to function. So long for decentralisation if you need to talk to the owner of the protocol you are trying to use...
Comment linking /w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/
on “Bluesky Trademarks ATProto”Submitted Elena Rossini: My year of Fediverse explorations as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSome points raised here seem worth pointing out: https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality...
Comment linking /w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
on “W – The European social network for verified humans”Submitted We need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted If Big Tech social platforms are junk food, then what is Bluesky? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Untold Story About W Social as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype as a story · 1 points
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