To escape X, the EU joined a closed-source startup and ignored the open one (blog.elenarossini.com)
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.
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