We cooked up a briefing paper to describe our concerns. Called People, Protocols and AI: Power and Governance in Open Social Networks. Find it here: drive.google.com/file/d/10-WD...

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=...

Hi. I'm new here. My first steps have been 1. create a @eurosky.social PDS 2. install and configure the @skeetsapp.com 3. read and not understand how @germnetwork.com integrates with ATproto #firstpost

Hot off the internets — there's a brand new kid on the DASL block: Web Tiles! It's still early days, some key features are missing, and there are some rough edges, but you can publish tiles to AT and play with the idea! webtil.es

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.

Hi from @eurosky.social 👋 My data is now hosted in 🇪🇺, managed by a non-profit (@modalfoundation.eurosky.social) and governed by European law.

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.

I want to add something this morning. Watching the folks who are building open social - @seabass.bsky.social and @sherif.eurosky.social and the whole Eurosky team - is one of the genuinely inspiring stories in Europe right now. It's not easy to take territory from Big Tech. But we can, and we will.

"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’

We have moved our ATProto handle 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 personal data server (PDS) transfer this week, sign up if you want in www.eurosky.tech/register #eurosky

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 all the details 🎉 #ProtocolsForPublishers protocolsforpublishers.com/london-2026/

It's early days and it will take many people and orgs together but we'll get there. My personal target: 50% of European social media users on open platforms by 2030.

In parallel, we've also been working on all the non-tech side of things. Having an institutional home @modalfoundation.bsky.social, compliance, fundraising.. We're setting up for the long term. After the PDS, it will be appview components and apps.

Folks who get the invitations early should expect a service that works but where things can go wrong. Early adopters and all that 🙂🙏

We also want to make the user experience for migrating accounts as easy as possible. There are good tools that do this today but it's a bit of an involved process and many people may find it a bit complicated. We're working on a more streamlined tool but it will take a few weeks because of capacity.

There are thousands of folks registered already and we haven't really been promoting this beyond a couple of posts on Bluesky. We want to make sure you get a reliable service. Something always go wrong in any product and we want to minimize any future service disruption.

Hello! Update on eurosky[.]social accounts. - PDS is ready with backups and observability - We've onboarded a small number of testers to see how things are holding up - We'll start sending invites to folks who registered in the next few days We're doing this slowly, here's why 👇 #eurosky

Our friends at the brand new @modalfoundation.bsky.social are focused on this through their project Eurosky, which aims to build out the infrastructure that would allow over 450 million people in the EU to experience the social internet outside of Silicon Valley apps.

Many Europeans want to be free of American and Chinese Big Tech apps. Open, decentralized protocols like ActivityPub (powering Mastodon) and AT Protocol (powering Bluesky) may be the key to a new sovereign social media infrastructure.

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 agree, @alexandrageese.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/alexan...

Ready to turn the discussion around building European platforms into concrete technical features? Join open source devs, media professionals, policy experts and business leaders January 30th in Brussels for a hackathon hosted by @europemedialab.bsky.social and @eurosky.social. luma.com/9f10yt6f

This is what we’re thinking about right now. Let’s peel the onion together 🧅 New_ Public Co-Director @eli.bsky.social wants your opinion: How will we be talking to each other online in two years?

Terrific piece from @coricrider.com "What Musk and Trump portray as a fight over who has the right to speak is really a fight over who has the power to force others to listen." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...

Final details for #PfP✨London are locked in. We have our 🏛️ venue, last 🗣️ speaker confirmed, and the 🎟️ registration is now completely open! protocolsforpublishers.com/final-detail... #ActivityPub #ATProto #AI #webpayments #webpublishing #events #London

As we start confirming speakers and travel support, it's also time to remind people about booking their stay at the conference hotel. We just got an update, and more than half of our reserved rooms for Wednesday March 25th and Thursday March 26th are booked. Details in the conference FAQ ->

We're having an AT Proto gathering at FOSDEM, on the Friday right before, at 17h00. Come! It'll be nice and fun. luma.com/jj7nths0

Aside from Stories (!) @flashes.blue now comes in multiple languages: We’ve started adding localization to the app for Japanese 🇯🇵, Korean 🇰🇷, Spanish 🇪🇸, German 🇩🇪, Italian 🇮🇹, French 🇫🇷, Portuguese 🇵🇹🇧🇷 and Polish 🇵🇱.

Last year, we shared a lot of innovative research findings showing that having meaningful connection and conversation on social media isn’t a lofty dream — it’s possible! Here are some of our favorite studies from 2025. 🔬🦠💬

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