Sandra Barthel (@samvie) is coming to #fediforum and wants to talk about: Political demands from the Fediverse to political leaders at the European level and its member states with regard to the digital summit on 18th of November in Berlin #eufediverse Discuss interoperability extension within […]

I wonder if @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social is aware that adversarial interoperability is key to tech sovereignty? And if so, what is her plan to increase the chances of being able to enforce it against the power of giants? www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Media freedom in the Western Balkans is deteriorating fast: 381 alerts since 2024, with Serbia seeing the most attacks on journalists. Independent media face immense pressure as propaganda grows. President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu must address this on her visit. www.ecpmf.eu/call-on-pres...

An Open Source Phone Is the Free Software Foundation's Next Project www.howtogeek.com/the-free-sof...

🛡️ Reporting from exile means confronting digital threats, surveillance, and censorship across borders. Yesterday, our EU Advocacy Officer Ena Bavčić participated in a workshop on innovation, resilience, and safety for exiled journalists and activists at #PrivacyCamp25.

This is really the crux of it. Bluesky isn't censorship resistant when there's a single point of failure concentrated in the United States. We need Eurosky like yesterday.

New on #DeregulationWatch: Is EU Commission President Von der Leyen getting worried about MEPs and governments not buying into her #deregulation agenda? In a speech last week VDL called upon industry lobby groups to get their "influence to the table" 🤔 ➡️ www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

On 22 October 2025, OpenForum Europe will host a roundtable about the European Standardisation System from 16:30 to 18:30 at Maison de la Poste in Brussels. Register now: openforumeurope.org/event/solvin...

‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism connectedplaces.online/blueskyism-p...

If you're uncomfortable with Bluesky owning (and being able to delete) your data but don't want to go the whole way to self-hosted/another service, you should: 1) Register identity recovery keys, which will allow you to point your current identity to a new PDS 2) Backup your PDS periodically

🚨 A former Meta lobbyist will join the DPC as a commissioner in October. With this appointment, the Irish government does not even pretend to care about enforcing EU law anymore. Read our full statement on the matter here: noyb.eu/en/former-me...

Mit 1. September hat die Datenschutzbehörde neue Aufgaben im Rahmen des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes bekommen, nun muss sie aufgrund Personalmangels ihre Tätigkeiten einschränken. www.derstandard.at/s... 1/2

Read OFE’s new report: Funding Europe’s Open Digital Infrastructure. The report urges the EU to launch a Sovereign Tech Fund to support the open source tech powering Europe’s digital future. Read the report: eu-stf.openforumeurope.org Watch the intervention: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgCC...

♻️ berlinfediday: 🚀 2. Berliner Fediverse Day am 4. Oktober 2025 im @cbase Berlin! 🤘 Workshops, Vorträge & jede Menge #Fediverse‑Vibes – für Neulinge, Veteran:innen & alle dazwischen. Eintritt frei, let’s federate together! Programm, Timetable und SpeakerInnen werden stetig… https://berlin.social/…

And a few weeks earlier: the German Fediverse Day. Great timing again, kicking off on this year's German Unity Day. (Unity - ATProto&ActivityPub - nudge, nudge, wink, wink) berlinfedi.day

More details on the Franco-German Digital Sovereignty Summit here. www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-...

Today, I had the pleasure of meeting @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social at the invitation of the Austrian Chancellery at their summit on 🇪🇺 #digitalsovereignty We are calling for #open protocols & #interoperability to be strengthened when building public #digital #infrastructure ✨