All going well on the PDS side of @eurosky.social accounts. We're going slow mainly because folks are having some hiccups with the migration process and our support capacity is limited. Once the migration tool @seabass.bsky.social is working on is ready, we'll go full steam.

To anyone who wants to join in here and contribute - it would be highly appreciated!

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.

Welcome to Eurosky @xanlopez.xyz, great to have you on board! 🥳

I presented @eurosky.social as one solution to the issues we’re facing and invited everyone to join us in creating this European social media ecosystem that is based on interoperability and common infrastructure.

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

Testing testing

👋 @eurosky.social 😁

As some of you have noticed https://eurosky[.]social (no www) doesn't take you to our website as it's going to the PDS home. Main domain has moved to eurosky.tech but www.eurosky.social also redirects.

We're getting ready to launch - making sure we've got testing, observability and backups all in good order. It's taking a smidgen longer than we hoped but first invites will arrive on the first week of February and roll out throughout the month. Thank you for your patience 🙏

We’re partnering with @europemedialab.bsky.social For Stars4Media Day XII – Democracy infrastructures: European platforms & Eastern correspondents. Main point of the agenda are Trusted European Platforms, a new framework for sovereign, reliable and open digital spaces.

A bunch of us are working on the practical questions of how to decentralize ATProto and create other strong nodes that complement Bluesky. And Bluesky itself wants this. Coming soon: a European identity for ATProto, 1st step toward Euro infra: www.eurosky.social/register @eurosky.social

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

Not necessarily PDS-as-a-Service but if you’re simply looking for EU-based account hosting - @eurosky.social will be up in Jan

Seems like the registration form for eurosky.social accounts is not loading for some folks using Firefox. It works on Chromium-based browsers and Safari. Will see if there’s a workaround. 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.

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

💯 this! @ec.europa.eu // @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu > now is the time to actually lead & stop using X! All gov't posts should be made on here. + look at the work they're doing at @eurosky.social! That should be backed. Decentralised European social media! Also support @freeourfeeds.com!

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...

Coverage of @eurosky.social

this weeks ATmosphere/bluesky news, with how Eurosky helped show that the atproto ecosystem is bigger than just Bluesky, Bluesky doing dev grants, and how Gander is thinking about creating cultural sovereignty with their platform

🇪🇺 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...

Metrics are important for purpose. For @eurosky.social’s success I have one personal metric: in 5 years time I want to see 50%+ of social media in Europe to be on open platforms.

Spread some #ATProto love today in a masterclass I gave @ the largest convention when it comes to content creators in Germany (conveniently named #ContentConvention). Shoutout to @torbatschow.de who was there too calling for funding niche / grassroots technologies. www.contentconvention.de

@seabass.bsky.social and Enrico Graziani demonstrated how the Commons for Content Moderation, a core @eurosky.social component, will provide a shared moderation system for developers and startups building applications on top of AT Protocol. vimeo.com/1140579395?s...

Thanks for having me! @eurosky.social as a mix of government / policy / media / builders was a really great event. Gives me a lot of hope & energy to see the interest in the room. We can do better than #WurstSky! #EuroSkyLive

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 👇

@evelyn.northsky.team talk at @eurosky.social has been published along with the others. If you missed the livestream, watch the recording to see what’s coming! #EuroskyLive #ATproto

Huge shoutout to the @eurosky.social team for last week's #EuroskyLive in Berlin. Here's my "one week later" first take: mathewlowry.medium.com/politics-mee...

And if you raise a significant chunk of funding for #Eurosky, I'll record your favourite pop choreography in the style of Tom Holland's all-time-classic Lip Sync Battle.

All #EuroskyLive sessions are now available to watch here vimeo.com/showcase/eur... featuring @bnewbold.net @robin.berjon.com @erikologic.bsky.social @seabass.bsky.social @mathewlowry.bsky.social

The video of the #EuroskyLive morning sessions is up! You'll find time to jump to specific sessions in the description. Featuring, among others @robin.berjon.com @seabass.bsky.social @gaurivangulik.bsky.social @alexandrageese.bsky.social @geurkink.bsky.social vimeo.com/1140026673?s...

toller Bericht über die @eurosky.social Konferenz am 19.11., Alternativen zur Welt der Tech Milliardäre sind möglich! Wenn die EU es ernst meint, mit digitaler Souveränität: HIER lohnt sich jeder €€€ Investment! ohne Paywall: https://archive.is/7KxFR Funfact: ein Skeet von mir ist im Artikelbild 😍

Takeaways from #eurosky: big tech social media displaced journalism, a core pillar of democracy, and has been bad for society. EU lawmakers want European, privacy-centered tech. There are still questions of whether the internet is worth building on and what to build. But they are talking about it

Now we get back to building and breaking walls We spent the day yesterday in a retro/reflection/(not)post-mortem/planning. Something exciting is bubbling, watch this @eurosky.social space 😉

Thank you so much to everyone who came, watched and gave their time for #EuroskyLive. Thank you to all the speakers, startups and projects that presented. We’re so grateful you helped make the day a success, energising, inspiring and full of ideas. @eurosky.social

Coming down gently after the whirlwind of #EuroskyLive I wish a heartfelt thanks to @robin.berjon.com, @seabass.bsky.social , @sherifea.com and all @eurosky.social contributors for opening rich seams of opportunity for the #ATmosphere : tools, communities, and a real elevation of potential. Bravo 🙌

Has been fun following #EuroskyLive updates today! Sad to not be there in person (promised myself I'd not travel too much more after moving country this summer 😅), hope to get a chance to meet other atproto devs in person someday soon

I spent the day at #EuroskyLive and it is so energizing to hear developers make a better case for European innovation and competition policy than a whole high-level summit on digital sovereignty yesterday...

Very exciting seeing @transrights.northsky.social’s plans - w @evelyn.northsky.team

Applause of the day was certainly for @evelyn.northsky.team and that was before she started :)

Cat of the day #EuroskyLive

A great analogy by @netzpolitik.bsky.social: what we want is “not a cathedral, like a European Facebook, but a bazaar” #EuroskyLive

Fashionably late to the #Euroskylive party and excited to see @sherifea.com, @rose.bsky.team, @erikbugge.bsky.social, and Euractiv founder Christophe Leclercq talk about how we fund and scale the open social web.

incredible atproto-tier slide from @atconnect.eu tag yourselves! #euroskylive

Slight change in schedule, we will have Markus Beckedahl @netzpolitik.bsky.social followed by @chipnick.com and @transrights.northsky.social

@danirabaiotti.bsky.social got a shout out at @eurosky.social as @mathewlowry.bsky.social talks about the impact of bluesky has on traffic and engagement. #EuroskyLive

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

Amazing to hear Jen Mitchell’s vision for sovereign social with @gandersocial.bsky.social and how they inspired Canadians to make it a reality