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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.
not in a long time. My achilles tendon is, well, my achilles heel.
"public-interest projects are being hit by industrial-scale AI scraping": good summary of the threats to the open internet from rampant scraping for AI training data: www.opendemocracy.net/en/ai-chatbo...
Sadly no, but we'll be writing up and sharing the results.
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.
US State Dept "removing all posts on its public accounts on the social media platform X made before President Trump returned to office on Jan. 20, 2025". Another reason we need open social infrastructure: records of public entities should be easily duplicated. www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...
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.
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
“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’
Nope!
It's very exciting to see Eurosky launch their first piece of open infrastructure.
It's been great to help this come into shape from early discussions of running independent Bluesky infrastructure to getting something to users.
that would be "personal data server", not "service" Operating on only a couple hours of sleep here. If I can move my account with a serious sleep deficit, well, anyone can.
I've just moved to eurosky.social, and you can too! For European data storage, and to demonstrate how a decentralized, open social network looks like in practice. We are testing the personal data service (PDS) transfer this week, sign up if you want in! www.eurosky.tech/register #eurosky
Also, not impressed with "will require identification and photo validation." You're totally missing the point and just creating a privacy nightmare.
If you want a European social media effort, look at @eurosky.social or various ActivityPub efforts. Don't build some new proprietary platform.
The last thing anyone needs is a new "platform" for microblogging. The whole point is we should be moving beyond silo'd platforms into an open social world. So my response to the launch of "W" as a competing platform to "X" is simply: "but Y, tho?"
cybernews.com/tech/europe-...
This looks like a tasty and provocative read: nearly 1/3 of social media research has undisclosed ties to the tech industry: www.science.org/content/arti...
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
A card that reads "Social media is critical infrastructure. It needs to work for people, not exploit and mislead them. Modal Foundation supports decentralized social tech that helps people create, circulate and discover trustworthy information."
Hi Bluesky! We're Modal Foundation, a new nonprofit dedicated to making open social tech viable at scale. We grew out of the @freeourfeeds.com campaign and support @eurosky.social. Our work will connect experts, strategists, builders and communities to create a human-centered internet.
We envision a world in which tech serves people over companies and governments. Find out more and get in touch here: modalfoundation.org
Very excited that @modalfoundation.bsky.social is now public, fulfilling our @freeourfeeds.com commitment to set up a public interest tech foundation to support social tech based on open protocols.
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 the initial announcements 🎉
#ProtocolsForPublishers
protocolsforpublishers.com/pfp-london-d...
The first of many things we're planning, to find out more see www.eurosky.social/development-...
❕Registration will open in batches, the earlier you register, the more likely your username of choice will be available.
❕You can migrate your existing Bsky account
❕You can use your custom domain
Yes, this is a PDS :)
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
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.
