Our friends at @eurosky.social have been working on something cool: they're launching eurosky.social accounts that will be hosted on European cloud and governed by European law. Register your account now: www.eurosky.social/register

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...

Heads up! We're sending out invite codes to our subscribers starting next week. Invites will roll out gradually and chronologically. We're excited to welcome you to safer skies! Read more about it here: northskysocial.com/posts/norths...

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...

🇪🇺 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...

There are many, many apps, startups and communities being built on the AT Protocol. We featured a tiny handful at #EuroskyLive last week. 🧵

Last week, we joined @eurosky.social in Berlin for #EuroskyLive, a conference on digital sovereignty, media independence, startup opportunities, and the future of social technology being built and governed in Europe. Here's a thread of panels and keynotes from the event 👇

What is a democratic technology and what does that actually mean? This was the guiding question that @ivansigal.bsky.social posed to Professor @ethanz.bsky.social and Mark Surman in their panel, Building the Next Generation of Democratic Tech, at #AttnGovernOrBeGoverned. 🧵

Lots of good stuff about #EuroskyLive in there! www.rnd.de/digital/soci...

This afternoon, we're listening to Jutta Horstman, the Bluesky team, Mathew Lowry, Christophe Leclercq, Markus Beckedahl, and more at #EuroskyLive. Watch the livestream here: stream.place/eurosky.soci...

@eurosky.social‘s live event has its own starter pack now: #EuroskyLive

It was an honour to have State Secretary Heike Raab give the opening keynote at #EuroskyLive. Thank you for your support for Eurosky and our mission.

Heike Raab at #EuroskyLive says "We need: 1. sustainable financing of free and independent media 2. to protect communication spaces from manipulation 3. to reform media concentration law against concentration in social media. Regulation isn't enough, we need our own European infrastructure."

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

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...

On November 19th, we will join @eurosky.social in Berlin for #EuroskyLive, a conference on digital sovereignty, media independence, startup opportunities, and the future of social technology being built and governed in Europe. www.eurosky.social/eurosky-live

Next week I’ll be in Berlin for a European Digital Sovereignty Summit satellite event to help launch @eurosky.social. So it's time to ask: what does #sovereignty look like in the #socialmedia space? mathewlowry.medium.com/building-res...

Super proud to be part of the EU Horizon proposal Social-PETs. It aims to bring privacy-enhancing tech (PETs) like homomorphic encryption and secure multiparty computation to open social networks such as #ATProto, making powerful recommender systems possible without centralised data.

We're very excited to announce our closing keynote for #EuroskyLive: Markus Beckedahl, Founder of the Zentrum für Digitalrechte und Demokratie (Center for Digital Rights and Democracy). cc @netzpolitik.bsky.social #EuroskyLive #DigitalSovereignty #EuropeanTech

Our agenda for Eurosky Live is now... live! We're very excited about it. Check it out here www.eurosky.social/eurosky-live We have a few spaces left, sign up here luma.com/knk1342n If you can't be there in person you can join the live stream, sign up here smokesignal.events/did:plc:ooen...

great thread of our IETF BoF session today huge thanks to everyone that participated in person & remote for more info on what a "BoF" is & what are plans at the IETF are check out: docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-...

@flashes.blue saw over 100k download in its first week after release. This month we‘ll introduce Stories, which will be moderated through the Commons Content Moderation framework we‘re releasing with @eurosky.social on Nov 19th. Eurosky will provide ATProto infra outside of the US.

I am so looking forward to @eurosky.social and I wrote down why I care about this ecosystem, both as an artist and as a coder. Including shoutout to @flashes.blue and @seabass.bsky.social #WeCanJustDoThings

Rose Wang is the COO of Bluesky. She was formerly the Head of Customer Experience at Forethought AI, an AI platform serving mid-market and enterprise customer support teams, and the CEO and co-founder of Chirps, a sustainable cricket protein food company featured on Shark Tank.

Bryan Newbold is a Protocol Engineer at Bluesky, where he develops the Authenticated Transfer (AT) network powering a new generation of social web apps. He previously worked at the Internet Archive preserving at-risk scholarly publications and research data.

The @bsky.app team will be at #EuroskyLive in force with @rose.bsky.team and @bnewbold.net. We're delighted they will be joining us as speakers.

OpenAI's browser doesn't even show us the web, just a simulcrum of it. Thanks @anildash.com www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...

I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...

'Robin, you're speaking'. @robin.berjon.com had no choice. But you do, join us at #EuroskyLive in Berlin on 19 November. To register in person: www.eurosky.social/eurosky-live Streaming: smokesignal.events/did:plc:ooen...

Previously, he was VP of Data Governance at The New York Times, where he worked on data strategy and safeguarding media independence, and Vice-Chair of the board of the World Wide Web Consortium. And of course, Robin is part of the Eurosky team :)

He is Principal at Supramundane Agency, Deputy Director of the IPFS Foundation, and a Senior Fellow with both the Future of Technology Institute and the Public AI network.

@robin.berjon.com is a technologist specialised in the governance of technology. His work focuses on digital sovereignty, issues of power in the digital sphere, and bringing democracy to the internet.

Slowly getting there. The next version of @skeetsapp.com will let you set custom proxy headers so that you can use other AppViews - like that of @blackskyweb.xyz CC @rude1.blacksky.team

on the challenges when an authoritarian regime joins a social networking platform to troll

The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news outlets’ homepages have plummeted in recent months — Nieman Lab reporters @andrewdeck.bsky.social and @hanaatameez.bsky.social found they declined by 87% starting in May of this year. They decided to find out why. buff.ly/rhtRGcr

Funk is a joint collaboration between Germany's two public broadcasters ARD and ZDF. It's a content network that publishes engaging, informative, critical, and entertaining videos and podcasts for audiences aged 14 to 29. Philipp Schild, Funk's managing director, will be speaking at #EuroskyLive

Great to see @gandersocial.bsky.social doing so well with their fundraising effort! www.frontfundr.com/gandersocial

Happy to share latest update from #freeourfeeds campaign, covering highlights from the past few months and outlining upcoming events and appearances. free-our-feeds.ghost.io/free-our-fee...

atmosphere devs! 🧑‍🚀 just published a protocol checkin: docs.bsky.app/blog/protoco... tl;dr expect to see a lot of updates from us in the next few months. we're hard at work on making AT easier to build on & ensuring the network remains a resilient foundation for the future of open social

Looking forward to the next ATProto Community Conference, Vancouver, Canada, March 26th-29th 2026. Great folks, and great vibes from @atprotocol.dev: news.atmosphereconf.org/3m3cwwz4mpk2...

Representing both @flashes.blue and @eurosky.social in Brussels 🥳

We’re delighted to welcome Catherine Tait as a speaker at #EuroskyLive. With decades of leadership across public media and digital innovation, Catherine brings a unique perspective on how decentralised ecosystems can strengthen democracy and public space online. #DigitalSovereignty #EuropeanTech

Join #freeourfeeds and @eurosky.social on Wednesday, 19 November in Berlin as European leaders, policymakers, developers, and investors explore what's already being built and chart the path forward for Europe’s open social web. We are so pleased that @alexandrageese.bsky.social will be joining us!

Join us on Wednesday, 19 November in Berlin for Eurosky Live. This is for anyone building, funding, or shaping Europe's digital future. Register luma.com/knk1342n

Our European-focused work, under the brand of @eurosky.social is taking off. Our first in-person event happens in Berlin on November 19, to discuss and share opportunities for European open social #atrproto infrastructure operated in Europe. We're announcing our speakers here!

Sharing a short writeup from a 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat, featuring our #eurosky project and the work of our friends at @germnetwork.com, among others: www.protocol.ai/blog/threads...

Very pleased to see this #Indiesky project put #freeourfeeds funds to good use, supporting Northsky in their community building efforts. Congratulations @transrights.northsky.social and @knowtheory.net @bmann.ca

Amazing news. Alaa pardoned after, this time, six years in prison and a lifetime fighting for freedoms in Egypt. What an inspiration. This would be a good time to grab his book, "You have not yet been defeated": what it takes to fight oppression. #freealaa fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/you-ha...

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

If anyone wants more done with private data - give to Blacksky. If anyone wants more solid migration systems - give to Blacksky. But also: Rudy can’t be our only wall. Doing the hard work of setting up an entity (not just a friends PDS) is what we’re going to need.