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Open social tech in the public interest
https://www.modalfoundation.org/
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Ivan Sigal
10 days ago
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...
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Briefing_Building a New Social Web-20260218.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10-WDRuXhnSNcuxPU4i9ye35X1Zi_3Wy_/edit?referrer=luma
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Ivan Sigal
10 days ago
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=...
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Building a New Social Web: Protocols, People and the Promise of a Democratized AI-Data Economy · Luma
On the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit February 20, 11 am - 1 pm IST. Join the Social Web Foundation and Project Liberty Institute, in partnership with…
https://luma.com/25chdoy8?tk=pafk91&utm_source=ep-MaGRFnHyEN
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Maike
15 days ago
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
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Integrating Germ with AT Protocol — Germ Network
End-to-end encrypted Germ DM is now a Bluesky messenger. In this technical post, we introduce the architecture of Germ’s integration with AT Protocol. From the beginning, Germ has been building for an...
https://www.germnetwork.com/blog/integrating-germ-atproto
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Robin Berjon
19 days ago
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
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Web Tiles
Tiles are composable web docs and apps that can safely be used in arbitrary contexts and assembled from multiple sources to carry out complex user interface tasks.
https://webtil.es/
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Sebastian
18 days ago
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.
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GitHub - eurosky-social/u-haul: ATProto account migration tool with a simple web interface. Built with Rails 7. Includes progress tracking, encrypted credentials, and background job processing via Sid...
ATProto account migration tool with a simple web interface. Built with Rails 7. Includes progress tracking, encrypted credentials, and background job processing via Sidekiq. - eurosky-social/u-haul
https://github.com/eurosky-social/u-haul
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Xan López
22 days ago
Hi from
@eurosky.social
👋 My data is now hosted in 🇪🇺, managed by a non-profit (
@modalfoundation.eurosky.social
) and governed by European law.
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Sebastian
22 days ago
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
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Cori Crider
24 days ago
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.
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Robin Berjon
24 days ago
"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
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Chris Powers
24 days ago
“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’
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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
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Protocols for Publishers
about 1 month ago
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/
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Protocols for Publishers ✨ London
Join us in London on Feb 4-5, 2026
https://protocolsforpublishers.com/london-2026/
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Sherif Elsayed-Ali
25 days ago
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.
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Sherif Elsayed-Ali
25 days ago
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.
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Sherif Elsayed-Ali
25 days ago
Folks who get the invitations early should expect a service that works but where things can go wrong. Early adopters and all that 🙂🙏
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Sherif Elsayed-Ali
25 days ago
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.
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Sherif Elsayed-Ali
25 days ago
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.
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Sherif Elsayed-Ali
25 days ago
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
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New_ Public
about 1 month ago
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.
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Modal Foundation
Supporting decentralized social tech and open standards to create trustworthy, public-interest social media alternatives and ensure access to vital information.
https://www.modalfoundation.org/
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New_ Public
about 1 month ago
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.
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🇪🇺🌐 The future of social media may be decided in Europe
A survey of European AT Protocol projects, including 4 mini case-studies
https://newpublic.substack.com/p/the-future-of-social-media-may-be
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Announcing the Modal Foundation
We're a nonprofit dedicated to supporting decentralized social technologies that help people create, circulate and discover trustworthy information.
https://modalfoundation.leaflet.pub/3mcz4ap5dx22f
about 1 month ago
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Ivan Sigal
about 1 month ago
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...
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Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry, preprint claims
Industry-linked studies were also more likely to focus on particular topics, suggesting these ties may be skewing the field
https://www.science.org/content/article/nearly-third-social-media-research-has-undisclosed-ties-industry-preprint-claims
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We agree,
@alexandrageese.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/alexan...
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about 1 month ago
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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
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Hackathon on Decentralised Media - TEP (Trusted European Platforms) Bluesky, Nostr · Luma
Every year, thousands of developers of free and open-source software from all over the world gather at FOSDEM. For two weeks around this event – from the 26th…
https://luma.com/9f10yt6f
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New_ Public
about 1 month ago
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?
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Lilian Edwards
about 1 month ago
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...
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Europe Enters the Slop War
Cori Crider urges EU leaders to take a hard line against US tech barons’ efforts to subvert democratic institutions.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/europe-fight-against-x-opening-salvo-of-war-for-democratic-debate-by-cori-crider-2026-01?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=oganic-social&utm_campaign=page-posts-jan26&utm_term=innovation-tech&utm_content=link-image
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Protocols for Publishers
about 1 month ago
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
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We're All Set: Final Details for PfP✨London
The last pieces have been locked in for our next in-person event in London. Firstly, we would like to announce or last speaker: Jeremiah Lee from the Interledger Foundation who will be discussing dev...
https://protocolsforpublishers.com/final-details-for-pfp-london/
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AT Protocol Community
about 1 month ago
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 ->
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Conference Hotel
We have reserved rooms and special rates at the Gage Suites, which is about a 10min walk on campus to The Nest venue where the conference takes place. This Booking Link will take you to a 5 night sta...
https://discourse.atprotocol.community/t/conference-hotel/295
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Robin Berjon
about 1 month ago
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
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@proto @fosdem · Luma
The AT Protocol is an open, decentralized network for building social applications. https://atproto.com/ Start your FOSDEM with a convivial evening of casual…
https://luma.com/jj7nths0
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Sebastian
about 2 months ago
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 🇵🇱.
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New_ Public
about 2 months ago
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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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.
about 2 months ago
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