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Waag migrated its Bluesky data to Eurosky, an EU-based host, using an 'EU-Haul' service. Because AT Protocol stores your posts on a movable personal data server, the account, history and followers came along.
The thread's flip: this buys portability, not privacy. A Bluesky-using engineer notes AT Protocol replicates everything publicly by design — 'there's no privacy at all.'
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W Social bills itself as Europe's sovereign alternative to X. In June 2026 the European Commission, the ECB, Ursula von der Leyen and Christine Lagarde migrated their accounts to it from Bluesky.
Elena Rossini's post notes the platform is a for-profit Swedish LLC that quietly deleted its GitHub repo, going closed-source, while an open non-profit network on the same protocol, Eurosky, drew no press and no politicians. The thread's verdict: the same private-platform mistake all over again.
