For the first time this year, the FOSDEM conference will host a devroom for Local First, CRDTs* and sync protocols and sync engines. FOSDEM is the biggest FOSS conference in Europe. This is a great opportunity to show your work, and meet other developers interested in Local First software. The […]

What an announcement from #Telegram owner Pawel Durov! To provide just a few critical notes, he - makes believe he is just a commoner, and not the billionaire owner of one of the largest message, media and metadata *cleartext* databases on earth - skips over […] [Original post on chaos.social]

🇫🇷 La ministre allemande de la Justice : « Le #chatcontrol sans motif doit être un tabou dans un État de droit. » La communication privée ne doit pas faire l'objet d'une suspicion généralisée. « L'Allemagne n'approuvera pas de telles propositions au niveau européen. »

If you are an expert on E2EE, join the expert panel of European Commission, and defend E2EE ! You have until the end of August to do so: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/possible-end-to-end-to-end-come-help/

Niko Bonnieure (@nextgraph): • Interoperability is a component of usability. It’s not only a problem for proprietary software. Open source solutions lose when they require complex configuration. • We need symmetric Internet connections (equal upload and download connectivity). To increase […]

When people talk about the "survival of the fittest" or "the crime of empathy," I want clips like this to be pressed into the sides of those people's self-serving dumbfuck heads until they cave in.

Email servers used by European municipalities. https://jurgen.gaeremyn.be/map.html https://jurgen.gaeremyn.be/2025/03/08/european-critical-dependencies/

This Monday at 17:00 CEST we will be presenting NextGraph at the ODI Solid World webinar, together with LDO. Tune in at https://theodi.org/news-and-events/events/solid-world-june-2025/

@GrapheneOS a good moment to shine! While Android is slowly but surely restricting sideloading, GrapheneOS doesn't. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/android-now-allows-apps-to-block-sideloading-and-push-a-google-play-version/

Industry Committee vote: Technology sovereignty is only possible with Free Software The Industry committee of the European Parliament shows necessity and benefits of “open-source first” policy but report lacks concrete measures. https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250603-01.en.html #softwarefreedom

We are excited to be part of the biggest annual event of the Local First community, namely, the Local First Conference in Berlin, from Monday 26 to Wednesday 28 of May ! The first day is called the Community Day, with workshops and unconference activities, plus an after-party. We will be […]

We are excited to be part of the biggest annual event of the Local First community, namely, the Local First Conference in Berlin, from Monday 26 to Wednesday 28 of May ! The first day is called the Community Day, with workshops and unconference activities, plus an after-party. We will be […]

We’re going to the Open Source Community Annual Conference OW2con’ in Paris on the 17-18 of June. Participation is free! On the second day, wednesday 18th of June, in the morning at 9:45 in the “February Breakout Room” we will present NextGraph for 15 mins along other NGI projects. Come and […]

We’re going to the NGI Forum June 19-20 in Brussels. Participation is free. The event is organized by the European Commission’s NGI program, to foster collaboration between projects and exchange on the hot topics of the moment, and plan the future developments ahead. We will be on stage with […]

@firesidefedi interviewed @laurin a developer with the #ActivityPods @activitypods#ActivityPods#project! Watch this nice conversation about Laurin, ActivityPods, and anything else to get to know Laurin. https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/bxNGMNuVGN6r45DyxVgy5P

Self-hosting in a nutshell https://selfh.st/sick-freaks/

𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗜 💕 #𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆! Our 30th episode of the #softwarefreedom podcast is dedicated to the #ilovefs day ! Thank you to the @appfair for participating in the special episode <3 In this episode @annabonnie and Marc Prud'hommeaux discuss the #dma and how it levelled […]

Here is the video of our presentation at FOSDEM 2025. It was so much fun to attend FOSDEM for the first time! And to meet all the people we interact with online since months and years. Looking forward the next edition! A big thank you to organizers of the devroom, of the whole FOSDEM, and to […]

Here is the video of our presentation at FOSDEM 2025. It was so much fun to attend FOSDEM for the first time! And to meet all the people we interact with online since months and years. Looking forward the next edition! A big thank you to organizers of the devroom, of the whole FOSDEM, and to […]

My first FOSDEM was wild. I heard from so many people doing fascinating work in depth and breadth that left me in awe. So inspired & grateful for the experience. Thank you to all the speakers for the hard work of presenting your work. Thank you to everyone I met for the first time, first time […]

Reminder: We will be presenting NextGraph at #fosdem in the devroom "Collaboration and Content Management" at 13:15 on Saturday in the H.1308 (Rolin) room. Come say hi! #fosdem2025 We will be in Brussels on Friday and Saturday, but not on Sunday. Would be nice to meet you! […]

New grant and new roadmap ! We are excited to announce that our project has been selected by @NGIZero / @EC_NGI and @nlnet for another grant with the NGI Zero Commons Fund! Last week we signed the Memorandum of Understanding and the work can start! Big thank you to the team at NLnet for their […]

At FOSDEM, we will give a 10-minute presentation on ActivityPods and the new architecture it enables. It will take place on Sunday during the Social Web BoF. More info: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6617-social-web-bof/ See you there ? 🙂 #socialwebfosdem

New grant and new roadmap ! We are excited to announce that our project has been selected by @NGIZero / @EC_NGI and @nlnet for another grant with the NGI Zero Commons Fund! Last week we signed the Memorandum of Understanding and the work can start! Big thank you to the team at NLnet for their […]

Reminder: We will be presenting NextGraph at #fosdem in the devroom "Collaboration and Content Management" at 13:15 on Saturday in the H.1308 (Rolin) room. Come say hi! #fosdem2025 We will be in Brussels on Friday and Saturday, but not on Sunday. Would be nice to meet you! […]

We will be presenting NextGraph at FOSDEM in the devroom "Collaboration and Content Management" at 13:15 on Saturday in the H.1308 (Rolin) room. Come say hi! We will be in Brussels on Friday and Saturday, but not on Sunday. Would be nice to meet you! […]

X/Twitter/formerly Goebbels' lair -> https://joinmastodon.org/ mark the date: 1st Feb spread the word @Mastodon #exit #antifascism

Whatsapp -> https://signal.org mark the date: 1st Feb spread the word @signalapp #exit #whatsappexodus

Instagram -> https://Pixelfed.org mark the date: 1st Feb spread the word @PixelFed #exit #InstagramExodus

New blog post about the roadmap of ActivityPods for 2025: https://activitypods.org/our-roadmap-for-2025

Twitter/X is right wing controlled. Meta (Instagram, Threads, Facebook) is right wing aligned. TikTok is aligning itself with Trump. Crypto-centric decentralized platforms are right wing aligned (the jury's out about whether crypto-funded ones are too). Major newspapers are aligning […]

Holy shit #pixelfed 😲 This is just nuts! 😲

We will be presenting NextGraph at FOSDEM in the devroom "Collaboration and Content Management" at 13:15 on Saturday in the H.1308 (Rolin) room. Come say hi! We will be in Brussels on Friday and Saturday, but not on Sunday. Would be nice to meet you! […]

Some personal news: Excited to team up with @snarfed.org to form A New Social, a non-profit focused on building cross-protocol services and tools for the open social web. It's time for social media to be centered around people, not platforms. Let's build bridges 🌐 […]