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pocksuppetyesterday at 12:56 PM3 repliesview on HN

W Social felt extremely shady since their first advertisement on HN.

Also, for all their talk about human verification, I have 6 accounts under different names :)


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sparklingyesterday at 2:25 PM

Super shady.

The german public broadcaster gave them a 5 minute feature on yesterdays evening news, that felt more like a paid ad than journalism. The report made it sound like it is some kind of semi-official EU-endorsed project, but its just... a closed source, for-profit social network? I guess the folks behind it are just well connected in Brussels.

Thank you but no thank you.

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hackerbeatyesterday at 8:52 PM

The name is terrible too.

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darigyesterday at 2:22 PM

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