@thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange
Post #3359421
2026-06-19 04:45 UTC
How to create an account on #WSocial in 13 easy steps, by @elena@aseachange.com . As she says,
"Please save this toot as reference if you ever hear somebody say that IT'S TOO COMPLICATED TO JOIN THE FEDIVERSE BECAUSE YOU NEED TO PICK A SERVER"
And speaking of Elena, here's the Hacker News discussion on her article I posted earlier in the thread. The first comment says "Also, for all their talk about human verification, I have 6 accounts under different names :)" - big if true!
#WSocial
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@thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange 2026-06-19 16:54
On Bluesky, @thisismissem@hachyderm.io does some digging and discovers that W Social and W Identity are basically the same people. So much for the line that "W Social doesn't know who you are because W Identity handles all the identity verification". https://bsky.app/profile/thisismissem.social/post/3mond5z5mmc2r #WSocial #WIdentity