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5000 users on Eurosky
💥 The number of @eurosky.social users increased by 1,000 in just under 27 hours 🎉
For the record: it took a couple of weeks to reach the first 1,000 accounts. The 2,000 mark was reached 72 hours later, the 3,000 mark 31 hours later, and the 4,000 mark 37 hours later.
Almost 5k 🚀 let’s get there today - tell your friends!
🇫🇷 On passe les 5,000 aujourd’hui? Parlez d’Eurosky à vos amis!
🇪🇸 ¿Llegamos a 5,000 hoy? ¡Cuéntaselo a tus amigos!
🇩🇪 Schaffen wir heute 5,000? Erzählt euren Freunden von Eurosky!
🇳🇱 Halen we vandaag de 5,000? Vertel je vrienden over Eurosky!
4000 users on Eurosky
💥 It took 37 hours to register the fourth thousand accounts on @eurosky.social 🎉
The first thousand (a slow, cautious launch) took a couple of weeks, the second 72 hours, the third 31.
For You, For Everyone: we're thrilled to announce that our feed personalization engine is now live — and fully open source. Read our @leaflet.pub announcement below, or follow the 🧵:
EU-HAUL has migrated over 1.2k accounts in just 3 days. Go @eurosky.social !
https://github.com/eurosky-social/eu-haul
PSA: If you’re verified on @bsky.app and you want to move to @eurosky.social please give us a heads-up (either through DM - eurosky account or me - or via mail to support@eurosky.tech) so that we can coordinate the re-verification with Bluesky for after the migration.
Please reshare!
This morning we’re over 3,000 strong. Invite codes are now arriving within 24 hours of registration. How many will we be by the end of the day?
We’re working on an updated Q&A to help answer all sorts of questions about @eurosky.social. If there’s anything you want to know more about please add your question(s) in this 🧵.
We cooked up a briefing paper to describe our concerns. Called People, Protocols and AI: Power and Governance in Open Social Networks. Find it here: drive.google.com/file/d/10-WD...
Amidst the scrum of the Indian AI Summit, there are some excellent side events. Looking forward to joining @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy @thelastjosh.bsky.social @projectliberty.io and the Observer Research Foundation to host this: luma.com/25chdoy8?tk=...
Here’s a little background on why we’re building u-haul.
I should have published something sooner so that people don’t have to speculate on the reasons, but we’re all wearing 5 hats these days at @eurosky.social and there is just too much stuff to do in parallel.
Hot off the internets — there's a brand new kid on the DASL block: Web Tiles!
It's still early days, some key features are missing, and there are some rough edges, but you can publish tiles to AT and play with the idea!
webtil.es
a group photo of the EU tech stars summit including Alexandra Geese and Henna Virkkunen
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.
“Authoritarian infrastructure leads to an authoritarian society” @robin.berjon.com said, in reference to our current tech stack.
And he also brought up the infamous Technate, a “deeply rooted ideology that keeps reappearing”.
Before giving several recommendations for ‘regime change’
Sebastian on stage at the European Parliament
"Why do people keep calling for a 'European X' or a 'European Instagram' when instead, by sharing infrastructure as we're doing with @eurosky.social, we could have 20 or 30 social networks?" — @seabass.bsky.social
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 all the details 🎉
#ProtocolsForPublishers
protocolsforpublishers.com/london-2026/
It's early days and it will take many people and orgs together but we'll get there. My personal target: 50% of European social media users on open platforms by 2030.
In parallel, we've also been working on all the non-tech side of things. Having an institutional home @modalfoundation.bsky.social, compliance, fundraising.. We're setting up for the long term. After the PDS, it will be appview components and apps.
Folks who get the invitations early should expect a service that works but where things can go wrong. Early adopters and all that 🙂🙏
We also want to make the user experience for migrating accounts as easy as possible. There are good tools that do this today but it's a bit of an involved process and many people may find it a bit complicated. We're working on a more streamlined tool but it will take a few weeks because of capacity.
There are thousands of folks registered already and we haven't really been promoting this beyond a couple of posts on Bluesky. We want to make sure you get a reliable service. Something always go wrong in any product and we want to minimize any future service disruption.
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
However, W have their own funding, and are not at present working with us.
Yes at the moment @modalfoundation.bsky.social is mostly funded by the Free Our Feeds campaign, as well as by a lot of volunteer and in-kind work. We have huge appreciation for everyone who gave, and the majority of our funds have come from individual donations - more than 2200.
We agree, @alexandrageese.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/alexan...
The event will be structured around 15 tables, each bringing together small and mixed teams to work on projects using decentralized tech.
We're having an AT Proto gathering at FOSDEM, on the Friday right before, at 17h00. Come! It'll be nice and fun.
luma.com/jj7nths0
As we start confirming speakers and travel support, it's also time to remind people about booking their stay at the conference hotel.
We just got an update, and more than half of our reserved rooms for Wednesday March 25th and Thursday March 26th are booked.
Details in the conference FAQ ->
Announcing @modalfoundation.bsky.social, a nonprofit making open social tech viable at scale. Modal will connect experts, strategists, builders and communities to create a human-centered internet. The foundation will oversee @freeourfeeds.com, @eurosky.social and more to come. modalfoundation.org
