These awards are for developers with MVP products built on open protocols, including both AT Protocol & ActivityPub. Let’s showcase the best alternatives to Big Tech products and platforms, and celebrate the potential of the open social sector. Deadline is May 1 app.formbricks.com/s/cmn3lqvw6b...

Excellent opportunity to showcase work on decentralized social tech, and pleased to work in partnership with @newpublic.org with @modalfoundation.eurosky.social on supporting better online social spaces.

If you're at #atmosphereconf come join me @offline.arushibandi.com and @christian.bsky.social to explore possible futures. Starting shortly: atmosphereconf.org/event/Bzy111e

Damn - @graze.social @stream.place @roomy.space all involved, posting updates on @leaflet.pub + @standard.site, and a schedule on @smokesignal.events lexicon to boot. @atmosphereconf.org is atproto-maxxing and then some.

I'm in the process of updating it but wifi is a little spotty on the train.

Some very exciting news - it looks like the working group for AT Protocol at the IETF has been approved! (though not formalized in the datatracker just yet) This is a big milestone in the standards process. But is also just the start of the actual process - years of meetings & work ahead!

I am very excited to announce our partnership @eurosky.social with @igalia.com! The partnership will accelerate the development of independent, European-operated infrastructure for the open social web, enabling developers, organizations, & communities to build new applications. cc @xanlopez.xyz

Updated FAQ up on our website - answering many questions we've been getting about @eurosky.social these past weeks including on moderation, verification, tech & all sorts. eurosky.tech/faq

Eurosky has a relay as well, so this isn't necessarily a question of control. We could run a separate app view reading from that relay and publish a forked Bluesky client that uses that app view, but that would only make it possible to control the whole process for app.bsky.* microblogging.

We are thrilled to be able to support #atmosphereConf this year, and look forward to excellent discussions. @ivansigal.eurosky.social @sebastian.eurosky.social and @robin.berjon.com will all be there representing!

"We need thousands of spaces for every scale." Following up from the #Rebuild event last week, the group has published an open letter about European social media. Thousands of spaces for every scale is exactly what @eurosky.social and the Atmosphere are about! letter.rebuild.net

Almost 5k 🚀 let’s get there today - tell your friends! 🇫🇷 On passe les 5,000 aujourd’hui? Parlez d’Eurosky à vos amis! 🇪🇸 ¿Llegamos a 5,000 hoy? ¡Cuéntaselo a tus amigos! 🇩🇪 Schaffen wir heute 5,000? Erzählt euren Freunden von Eurosky! 🇳🇱 Halen we vandaag de 5,000? Vertel je vrienden over Eurosky!

💥 It took 37 hours to register the fourth thousand accounts on @eurosky.social 🎉 The first thousand (a slow, cautious launch) took a couple of weeks, the second 72 hours, the third 31.

"public-interest projects are being hit by industrial-scale AI scraping": good summary of the threats to the open internet from rampant scraping for AI training data: www.opendemocracy.net/en/ai-chatbo...

Amidst the scrum of the Indian AI Summit, there are some excellent side events. Looking forward to joining @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy @thelastjosh.bsky.social @projectliberty.io and the Observer Research Foundation to host this: luma.com/25chdoy8?tk=...

Here’s a little background on why we’re building u-haul. I should have published something sooner so that people don’t have to speculate on the reasons, but we’re all wearing 5 hats these days at @eurosky.social and there is just too much stuff to do in parallel.

US State Dept "removing all posts on its public accounts on the social media platform X made before President Trump returned to office on Jan. 20, 2025". Another reason we need open social infrastructure: records of public entities should be easily duplicated. www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s Summit. The @greens-efa.eu & @alexandrageese.bsky.social had invited myself and several other technologists, including @robin.berjon.com, to speak in the EU parliament as part of the „EU Tech Stars Summit“ www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/event/eu-tech-stars-summit.

"Why do people keep calling for a 'European X' or a 'European Instagram' when instead, by sharing infrastructure as we're doing with @eurosky.social, we could have 20 or 30 social networks?" — @seabass.bsky.social

“Authoritarian infrastructure leads to an authoritarian society” @robin.berjon.com said, in reference to our current tech stack. And he also brought up the infamous Technate, a “deeply rooted ideology that keeps reappearing”. Before giving several recommendations for ‘regime change’

It's very exciting to see Eurosky launch their first piece of open infrastructure. It's been great to help this come into shape from early discussions of running independent Bluesky infrastructure to getting something to users.

I've just moved to eurosky.social, and you can too! For European data storage, and to demonstrate how a decentralized, open social network looks like in practice. We are testing the personal data service (PDS) transfer this week, sign up if you want in! www.eurosky.tech/register #eurosky

Also, not impressed with "will require identification and photo validation." You're totally missing the point and just creating a privacy nightmare. If you want a European social media effort, look at @eurosky.social or various ActivityPub efforts. Don't build some new proprietary platform.

The last thing anyone needs is a new "platform" for microblogging. The whole point is we should be moving beyond silo'd platforms into an open social world. So my response to the launch of "W" as a competing platform to "X" is simply: "but Y, tho?" cybernews.com/tech/europe-...

This looks like a tasty and provocative read: nearly 1/3 of social media research has undisclosed ties to the tech industry: www.science.org/content/arti...

We’re excited to share that Eurosky now has a supporting legal entity, @modalfoundation.bsky.social - a new nonprofit dedicated to making open social tech viable at scale. Big Tech’s dominance can feel inevitable, but it doesn’t have to be that way. modalfoundation.org

Hi Bluesky! We're Modal Foundation, a new nonprofit dedicated to making open social tech viable at scale. We grew out of the @freeourfeeds.com campaign and support @eurosky.social. Our work will connect experts, strategists, builders and communities to create a human-centered internet.

We envision a world in which tech serves people over companies and governments. Find out more and get in touch here: modalfoundation.org

Very excited that @modalfoundation.bsky.social is now public, fulfilling our @freeourfeeds.com commitment to set up a public interest tech foundation to support social tech based on open protocols.

Join us in London on Feb 4-5, 2026 to discuss how we can preserve an open, equitable web, where no one company holds the keys. Here are the initial announcements 🎉 #ProtocolsForPublishers protocolsforpublishers.com/pfp-london-d...

The first of many things we're planning, to find out more see www.eurosky.social/development-...

❕Registration will open in batches, the earlier you register, the more likely your username of choice will be available. ❕You can migrate your existing Bsky account ❕You can use your custom domain Yes, this is a PDS :)

Announcing eurosky.social accounts - launching January 2026. ✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative ✅ Hosted on European cloud ✅ Governed by European law www.eurosky.social/register

When we were planning the August edition of @protocolsforpublishers.com we knew that being in the US wasn’t going to work for a lot of people. @chadkoh.com is running with it & now has set a date for London in early February.

Our very own @robin.berjon.com reports from his time at @eurosky.social's Eurosky Live in Berlin two weeks ago. There's a bright future for content addressing on tomorrow's web! ipfsfoundation.org/ipfs-at-euro...

Big Tech continues to control our online spaces, threatening free speech and democracy globally, but we’re doubling down on our commitment to support decentralized open social technology. For #GivingTuesday, we're asking for your support: www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fr...

This #GivingTuesday don't forget about global, multilingual, community journalism. @globalvoices.org brings you the stories that our community members know need telling. We're under threat from authoritarianism, budget cuts, & attacks on journalists. You can help. globalvoices.org/donate/

Another timely summary plus analysis on state of open social by @laurenshof.online. If this topic is your jam, this newsletter is for you.

🇪🇺 Eurosky is building EU-hosted social media infrastructure on ATProtocol. Priorities: Commons for Content Moderation (CoCoMo), decentralized architecture, and reducing Big Tech dependency. Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...

We're excited to announce that Bluesky PBC included us in a round of grants to help foster the ATmosphere! Their generous grant will support infrastructure costs for Bridgy Fed and Bounce. We're so lucky to be included among so many phenomenal builders 🙏🏼 Here are a few we're excited about: 1/🧵

Catherine Tait, Philipp Schild, @amlung.bsky.social, @sandervdwaal.bsky.social and @ivansigal.bsky.social discussed how interoperable infrastructure can reinvent media’s relationship with audiences, break down platform monopolies and preserve journalistic independence. vimeo.com/1140417552?s...

Very happy to have been able to contribute to this event, and thanks to @taylorowen.bsky.social and colleagues for producing a stellar event.

Eurosky Live in Berlin was this week (great to see so many cool people!), and I wrote about building open social networking protocols is about more than just building an alternative to Big Tech's platform power

Love that by extension (via screenshot) @laurenshof.online, @sherifea.com, @anke.domscheit-berg.de, @robin.berjon.com, @bnewbold.net and Colin Robinson (those who know know) made it into the German news :) Great article (!) about the @eurosky.social conference with mentions of:

What do we have here? @bnewbold.net and @robin.berjon.com talking all things AT Protocol. #EuroskyLive

Live now: all about the future of of media #EuroskyLive

And @alexandrageese.bsky.social is on fire today. Frustration from yesterday's tech sovereignty summit? #EuroskyLive

We're in Berlin this week with @eurosky.social and many others for #EuroskyLive, a conference on digital sovereignty, media independence, startup opportunities, and the future of social technology being built and governed in Europe. free-our-feeds.ghost.io/free-our-fee...

We've kicked off #EuroskyLive in Berlin. Livestream the event here: stream.place/eurosky.soci...