"La nouvelle aristocratie etait composée pour l'essentiel de bureaucrates, d'hommes de science de techniciens, de syndicalistes, d'experts en publicité, de sociologues, de protesseurs, de journalistes et de politiciens professionnels." — George Orwell: _1984_, p. 281 A comparer à un extrait […]

I think I just had THE fediverse moment: Scrolling through my timeline watching text posts, photos, a peertube video...A short video. "ah nice MTB video" , I thought. Until I saw the handle: someone@loops. Wait.. I see a loops here. This isn't just a video. This is a video on A DIFFERENT […]

The French city of Lyon is dropping #Microsoft software in favor of #opensource alternatives. It doesn't want to depend on proprietary, closed-source software, and it doesn't want to depend on *American* software. It doesn't want "potential [US] governmental surveillance." […]

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-meta-facebook-instagram-brussels-kill-infinite-scrolling/ #socialmedia #bigtech #eu

RE: https://piaille.fr/@davidchavalarias/116051484332784263 Une bonne nouvelle dans le domaine de l'indépendance numérique française et européenne, il ne faut pas passer à côté, car cela fait du bien.

Grâce à @AbdelghaniMaddi, je découvre PRISM https://openai.com/fr-FR/prism/ """ Une IA qui comprend votre article Une IA prenant en compte l’ensemble du contexte de votre projet, y compris les versions et révisions précédentes. Elle aide à clarifier les idées, valider le raisonnement et […]

Le dessous des cartes - L'essentiel - Union européenne : peut-on se passer des Gafam ?ARTE https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/126925-023-A/le-dessous-des-cartes-l-essentiel/ > Les Européens ont enfin pris conscience de leur dépendance vis-à-vis des deux […] [Original post on universites.social]

RE: https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/116051151349103390 Signée ! On en est à 120 000.

Le projet de sciences ouvertes Diamant’AIR : Accompagner et Interconnecter les Revues lorraines est l’un des 14 projets retenus sur les 52 soumis au FNSO. Ses objectifs : consolider et développer l’accompagnement des revues lorraines en accès ouvert diamant.#ScienceOuverte #RechercheUL

Safer Internet Day is a good reminder: You can’t defend democracy on platforms that profit from spreading disinformation. European politicians: Ditch autocrats’ propaganda. Leave X. Now. https://leavex.eu #saferinternetday #democracy #disinformation #autocracy #farright #leavex

📊 Open Science in Action: the Université de Lorraine Shifts to #OpenAlex for Bibliometric Reports! The Bibliometrics team at the Université de Lorraine has taken a major step in its open science commitment by using OpenAlex for the first time in the annual bibliometric report for the A2F […]

🔬 Des chercheurs de l’Institut Jean Lamour (CNRS, Université de Lorraine) remettent en cause l’efficacité de la nano structuration sur un alliage thermoélectrique clé. Résultats publiés dans Nature Communications. #RechercheUL #Matériaux

RE: https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/116025421547573109 The #fediverse, and #mastodon in particular, showcases what social media can be when designed for democratic dialogue rather than profit. It’s open source, so its rules and algorithms are transparent and accountable. No single […]

Après #nicolasguillou et le tribunal pénal international, #francescaalbanese

If decentralization is the future of social media, where millions or even billions of people share knowledge, then we can learn a lot from how the Open Knowledge Foundation (@okfn) and the Wikimedia Foundation (@wikimediafoundation) built cross-border, international movements with clear missions […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rfi/116028653007240737 How #tiktok, #x, #facebook, #instagram and co. are addictive: More than half of the advertising money spent in this country goes to social media companies, and the trend is rising. Society is also paying the players who are destroying it […]

@HennaVirkkunen, @DanaSpinant , the @EUCommission , @EC_DIGIT , @DIGITALSME , @alexandrageese all on Fediverse and we think that's beautiful! The more, the merrier! #fediverse #eu #mastodon #dsa #digitalsovereignty #diday #savesocial

Tomorrow I will represent @Mastodon at the EU Tech Stars Summit, organized by the European Greens at the European Parliament. I will also be part of a panel moderated by MEP @alexandrageese about user choice focused algorithms. https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/event/eu-tech-stars-summit

L’Etat cherche à orienter la commande publique de logiciels vers les entreprises françaises www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

Emails show Zuckerberg questioned research on Meta's harmful effects after repercussions on teenagers' mental health https://www.theverge.com/report/874176/meta-zuckerberg-new-mexico-email-teen-girls-research “One day after The Wall Street Journal published a blockbuster story about Meta’s own […]

Webinaire : L’intégrité scientifique au défi des nouvelles pratiques éditoriales – 12/02/2026, 14h-17h. Reproductibilité, métriques, rétractations. Ouvert à toutes et tous. #ESR #ScienceOuverte #RechercheUL

RE: https://chaos.social/@netzpolitik_feed/116001300670918374 "They want to uphold quality journalism and offer a counterpoint on platform X. But Tagesschau, ZDFheute, Spiegel and Zeit do not achieve many views or positive interactions with their audience. What they encounter most of all is […]

A huge shout-out to @hpod16 for her fantastic work on the #Fediverse, both on her personal profiles and for the @EUCommission ! In less than a month, she’s gained over 1,000 followers, and her posts are being widely shared. As we've said, when most European politicians join the Fediverse […]

Doing Science is Resistance. Sign from Tucson ICE Out protest, January 30th, 2026.

Starting now, we’re recruiting general purpose servers with open sign-ups. To be eligible, servers must: - Run default Mastodon (for now) - Agree to the Server Covenant - Have existed for 1+ year - Have shut-down & disaster plans 4/6

Since @everton137 has been awarding Members of the European Parliament who successfully persuade their colleagues to leave X, this idea is being expanded. Now, this award goes to anyone who sends great emails or takes initiatives that help convince MPs from […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A video from Loops quoted on Mastodon #fediverse https://loops.video/v/dr9m59EZf0

Mise à jour du firmware du lave-vaisselle OK 😱 #iot

📅 Next week – 5 Feb @ European Parliament Meet the people building Europe’s digital future at the EU Tech Stars Summit 🇪🇺 An open event spotlighting EU tech innovators, digital sovereignty, and values-driven alternatives to Big Tech. Keynote by […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

True, but surprising to see in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦: "#wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00074-1 "The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it."

For those ~500 new followers in the last week, here is our main reasoning why the argument that you have to stay on social networks to provide opposition is complete nonsense https://leavex.eu/posts/why-stay-on-social-media-makes-no-sense/ If you agree, please share. This is mainly for those […]

TikTok Raises U.S. Censorship Fears After Messages About Jeffrey Epstein Are Blocked https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/tiktok-jeffrey-epstein-censorship-ice-1235505040/' #tiktok #leavetiktok #digitalsovereignty #epstein #uspol

> A computer can never be held responsible, therefore a computer must never make a management decision (1979 IBM training manual) https://werd.io/a-computer-can-never-be-held-accountable/

Les pubs vont arriver dans Whatsapp cette année en Europe. Il est temps de passer à la version Premium qui: - n’a pas de pub - n’a pas d’IA intégrée obligatoire - ne vous espionne pas et ne récolte pas vos données - améliore grandement votre sécurité et votre vie privée. - permet de discuter […]

Grassroots political groups, parties, and democratic institutions across Europe are already active on the Fediverse. So why are so many elected representatives still giving attention and legitimacy to the disinformation platform X, whose goal is to undermine democracies? Official Mastodon […]

Davos est mort, Trump l’a enterré https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/250126/davos-est-mort-trump-l-enterre > Point de rencontre des élites mondiales pendant 50 ans pour promouvoir le néolibéralisme, le sommet économique mondial a été marqué […] [Original post on universites.social]

Grant DOI registration fees have been reduced from 1 January 2026. Crossref has lowered the Current-Year fee to support growth of the Grant Linking System and strengthen connections across the Research Nexus. Learn more in the latest blog post. https://doi.org/10.64000/g6vyx-1tn51

Trying out the fediverse for the first time today. I've been reading a lot about it, now it's time to figure out how it works and build an internet home here. My goal is to figure out how I can bring www.gobikecamping.com into the fediverse and help people who love bike touring own their data […]

ActivityPub, the protocol that powers much of the fediverse and allows the various fediverse platforms and servers to talk to each other, has become an official W3C standard 8 years ago! https://www.w3.org/news/2018/activitypub-is-now-a-w3c-recommendation/ #fediverse #activitypub #standards […]

Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! My answer to the European Commission "call for evidence on Open Source." https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html #geminiprotocol link: gemini://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.gmi

RE: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115938794778974968 I agree with this wholeheartedly. We shouldn't create European versions of Google, Amazon or Microsoft, oligopols that benefit from vendor lock-in. Instead, we should have a commons based on open-source technology and standards, which can then be […]

This bizarre, hurried cut-and-paste Bluesky clone called "W" (wsocial.eu) says it will fill this huge gap in Europe where no social media platforms exist. Meanwhile... https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/fediverse-near-me_828094#3/25.80/29.79

🗺️ Nous sommes fiers d'avoir accueilli le titulaire de la Chaire Tocqueville Fulbright 2025, Kai Wehmeier, professeur de logique et de philosophie des sciences qui a passé 3 mois à Nancy, aux Archives Henri Poincaré ! 🎞️ Découvrez-le en image : http://bit.ly/4jWa2zO?mtm_campaign=hootsuite

Je viens de me reconnecter avec 25 comptes sur 79 grâce à @OpenPortability ! 🎉 Rejoignez le mouvement : https://openportability.org (avec une archive Twitter qui date du temps où c'était son nom)

Imagine telling someone in 1950 that train travel across Europe will one day be the expensive alternative chosen by well-off people with environmentalist opinions, while unskilled workers will only be able to afford air tickets, and arrive in a fraction of the time. #trains #Climate

Je suis un homme. Blanc. Cisgenre. Avec un très bon diplôme. Une très bonne situation. Dans un des endroits les plus protégés, les plus démocratiques. Bref, je serai parmi les tout derniers à souffrir des effets combinés de la politique et de la technologie. Et j’ai peur. Alors ne venez pas […]

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots How I managed to give an exam while giving the students the choice to use a chatbot or not. And what I learned in the process. https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html

Le HCERES est maintenu dans le texte issu de la CMP sur le projet de loi de simplification www.aefinfo.fr/depeche/7444...

Considering how popular the fediverse already is with at least some of the public institutions, this is a puzzling move. "European organizations are about to launch their own social media platform, W, amid rising tensions with the United States." […]