Post #2010716
2026-05-05 10:15 UTC
Replies (11)
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@mkj@social.mkj.earth 2026-05-05 12:04
@elena@aseachange.com https://www.eurid.eu/en/ lists a contact email address through the domain details lookup (whois). Not sure to what extent that's monitored but it's *supposed* to be valid.
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@zl2tod@mastodon.online 2026-05-05 10:45
@elena The domain is still registered, but it's DNS servers are unreachable from here. There's an email address for the registrant in the whois, but it's on the same domain as one of the unreachable DNS servers and so is unlikely to work.
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@papa@wheeli.social 2026-05-05 10:46
@elena I did a search for that original conversation, and it was @bash2 who mentioned that url. I don't know if they were the ones who put it up or not.
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@arunshah240@mastodon.social 2026-05-05 10:48
@elena I'm not still get invite code #WSocial
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@jpmens@mastodon.social 2026-05-05 10:49
@elena all three authoritative DNS nameservers for the domain REFUSE the answer, so it looks pretty dead to me.
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@David@setouchi.social 2026-05-05 11:01
@elena Damn. I thought everyone had forgotten about Wsocial. A TV ad... that's bad... (and sadly, I can't answer your question)
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@me@social.k3can.us 2026-05-05 11:11
@elena I don't know if this helps, but... I see an SSL cert that appears valid until Jun, but I think the there's a problem with the domain name (as of April 18). Maybe the domain got seized for some reason? I'm not sure what EU laws are like around that. I don't know what the site looked like before, but the server still provides a response if you hit the IP directly:
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@regendans@todon.eu 2026-05-05 12:07
@elena There's three Internet archive snapshots of the site : https://web.archive.org/web/20260115000000*/https://w-social.eu/ This copy has a world map : https://web.archive.org/web/20260122071830/https://w-social.eu
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@gici@freiburg.social 2026-05-05 12:25
@elena yesterday i heard by chance this interview Aus der Dlf App | Interviews | Social-Media-Plattform | Social-Media-Plattform – W Social will europäische Alternative zu X sein https://share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothek-audio-teilen.html?audio_id=dira_23DE4BCC478311F17152B883034C2FA0 and, I could access here https://wsocial.eu/public/signup But I was wandering too, if it is an alternative to the Fediverse or if it integrates with it and why should it be better.
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@andypiper@macaw.social 2026-05-05 12:55
@elena ... but eyou.social just launched today, how will I choose between these exciting new options?!
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@jonas@social.violoncello.ch 2026-05-05 13:21
@elena Apparently wsocial.eu's focus is on mandatory Identification (through government provided ID) as soon as you want to post anything.