June 18, 2026
Open source? Open gossip
Has W Social switched to closed source?
Europe’s ‘anti-X’ app is facing a trust meltdown as users call it shady and pointless
TLDR: W Social, a Europe-branded alternative to X, is under fire after reports that its public code disappeared just as major EU accounts moved onto the platform. Commenters are roasting it as shady, closed, and destined to repeat the same social media mistakes all over again.
The big shocker here isn’t just that W Social — the self-styled European answer to X — may have quietly pulled its public code out of sight. It’s that major European institutions, including the European Commission and top officials like Ursula von der Leyen and Christine Lagarde, reportedly moved their accounts onto W Social’s systems right as fresh questions about transparency exploded. For a platform that markets itself as cleaner, safer, and more European, the community reaction was basically: wait, seriously? this?
And the comments did not hold back. One of the loudest reactions was pure distrust: users called W Social “extremely shady” and mocked its promise of human verification after one commenter bragged they had “6 accounts under different names.” Ouch. Others went full doom-post, arguing this is just the same old social media trap in a new blazer: a private company luring people in before the usual decline into ads, lock-in, and disappointment. One commenter practically waved a giant “Use Mastodon this time” sign, while another cheered for the more open rival Eurosky, which has been building in public.
The hottest insult of the thread? Calling W Social “TruthSocial with a European accent.” Another jab said its launch at the World Economic Forum was “everything I need to know.” Translation: the internet jury has already put on its sunglasses, delivered the verdict, and started writing the punchlines.
Key Points
- •The article reports that ATproto accounts for the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the European Central Bank, and Christine Lagarde were migrated from Bluesky PBC to W Social’s servers.
- •The author says the migration information was verified using clearsky.app, an ATproto indexing site.
- •The article contrasts W Social with Eurosky, which it says is run openly by the non-profit Modal and has been building independent ATproto infrastructure in Europe.
- •The article explains that a fully sovereign ATproto deployment requires multiple components beyond a Personal Data Server, including a relay, AppView, moderation service, and PLC infrastructure.
- •The article claims W Social may have become closed-source after its public GitHub repository for the app was reportedly taken down or made private.