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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · 5h

Join #freeourfeeds and @eurosky.social on Wednesday, 19 November in Berlin as European leaders, policymakers, developers, and investors explore what's already being built and chart the path forward for Europe’s open social web. We are so pleased that @alexandrageese.bsky.social will be joining us!

Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 12h

We're delighted to announce @alexandrageese.bsky.social, Member of the European Parliament for the Greens/EFA Group, as a speaker for Eurosky Live in Berlin this November.

#EuroskyLive #DigitalSovereignty #EuropeanTech

www.eurosky.social/eurosky-live

Banner announcing Alexandra Geese as a speaker for the Eurosky Live conference. Alexandra Geese is Member of the European Parliament for the Greens/EFA Group. Eurosky Live takes place in Berlin on 19 Noember. Further details available at eurosky.social/eurosky-live

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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 1d

Since 2011, Heike led Rhineland-Palatinate's digital transformation as Government CIO, focusing on responsive & barrier-free public services. A former member of the State Parliament, she brings a crucial perspective on how governments can support the infrastructure needed for Europe's digital future

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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 1d

Join us on Wednesday, 19 November in Berlin for Eurosky Live. This is for anyone building, funding, or shaping Europe's digital future.

Register
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Eurosky Live: Berlin 2025 · Luma

Showcase • Keynotes • Panels Join founders, developers, media, policy-makers, and investors for a full-day public programme exploring the European open social…

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 9d

Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work.

Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Bluesky's Patent Non-Aggression Pledge - Bluesky

Bluesky develops open protocols. We're taking a short and simple patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everybody feels confident building on them.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 11d

Own Your Algorithm == Ow Ya! Lovely to see the new G in the wild.

Graze Social @graze.social · 11d

We're excited to share the new Graze! Completely redesigned look, same powerful tooling. Check it out at graze.social ✨

Bluesky Custom Feeds - Built By You

Design, deploy, and grow custom feeds of any complexity on Bluesky with Graze.social.

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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.bsky.social · 14d

Were you looking for this, just happen to already have known about it, or stumble upon it? I have questions.

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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · 14d

Very pleased to see this #Indiesky project put #freeourfeeds funds to good use, supporting Northsky in their community building efforts. Congratulations @transrights.northsky.social and @knowtheory.net @bmann.ca

AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 15d

It’s time to launch our first #Indiesky grant!

Today we’re announcing a $5000 grant to @transrights.northsky.social for their account data migration tools and the migration campaign for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community they serve.

atprotocol.dev/the-first-in...

The First Indiesky Grant: Northsky

Today we’re announcing our first Indiesky grant, a $5000 USD contribution to Northsky, their PDS migration tools and the migration efforts for their community. We started the ATProtocol Community Fun...

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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 16d

"The true free speech absolutists in the tech industry aren’t the ones making the most noise. They’re the ones building platforms that are untouchable. Whether those solutions operate on blockchain or some other technology, it’s clearly the future of free speech." cc @ivansigal.bsky.social

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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.bsky.social · 17d

Not just a good argument, and on a vital issue, but damn funny. I wish more policy writing made me chuckle.

Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 18d

The internet's in a bad place. We're not winning. How can we turn things around? We need money.

What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia.

But there's more… 🧵

How Wikipedia Can Save the Internet With Advertising | TechPolicy.Press

Robin Berjon explores how principled advertising on Wikipedia could fund a democratic digital future.

www.techpolicy.press

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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.bsky.social · 18d

Amazing news. Alaa pardoned after, this time, six years in prison and a lifetime fighting for freedoms in Egypt. What an inspiration. This would be a good time to grab his book, "You have not yet been defeated": what it takes to fight oppression. #freealaa fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/you-ha...

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 19d

Reminder that I'm hosting a new podcast at @issuesinst.bsky.social where I basically invited a bunch of my friends who work in really interesting areas and we talk about what they do with a lens of disaster studies and speculative fiction. The conversations have been amazing!

Not Now, But Soon Archives

Not Now, But Soon challenges the stories we often tell about disasters and explores how we can use speculative fiction to create better futures.

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 22d

That's a wiiiiiiiiild omission with a lot of downstream consequences.

It's interesting to contemplate why we didn't collectively discover this sooner too.

Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 22d

Update on Protocol Moderation

Where account takedowns happen is important

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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 24d

Hello everyone! Announcing Eurosky Live: Berlin 2025. Join founders, developers, media, policy-makers, and investors for a full-day public programe exploring the European open social web.

If you're building on ATProto and interested in showcasing, please reach out!

To register: luma.com/knk1342n

Eurosky Live: Berlin 2025 · Luma

Showcase • Keynotes • Panels Join founders, developers, media, policy-makers, and investors for a full-day public programme exploring the European open social…

luma.com

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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sketch of approach here: www.eurosky.social/development-...

Development Plan — eurosky

www.eurosky.social

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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.bsky.social · Sep 4

We have a draft of a legal analysis for a commons moderation to support European regulation, potentially applicable to other regulatory environments too. Still working through some details on it though

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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks Michael!

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ahead of tomorrow's hearing on European "censorship" of Americans under the Digital Services Act, I have a new blog post explaining why that is not a thing.

You can get the gist in about two minutes of skimming the bold text, or stay for the details.

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A Primer on Cross-Border Speech Regulation and the EU’s Digital Services Act

Some U.S. politicians have recently characterized European platform and social media regulation laws as “censorship” of speech in the U.S. If this claim were true, it would be a very big deal. As some...

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Techdirt @techdirt.com · Aug 29

House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints

Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and…

House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints

Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Cybersecurity Subcommittee Chairwoman Nancy Mace have decided otherwise. In a letter to Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander, these two Republicans are demanding that Wikipedia hand over editor identities, internal communications, and arbitration records because some studies suggest there might be bias in Wikipedia articles about Israel-Palestine issues.

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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.bsky.social · Aug 28

The times they are a-changing

Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · Aug 28

I see @opengovpartnership.org omitted the info that a coalition of #opengov watchdogs asked OGP to put the USA under review, & that OGP has found cause to open an inquiry: www.opengovpartnership.org/ogp-response...
NB: The USGSA is deceiving the American people about co-creating a 6th #opengov plan

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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.bsky.social · Aug 28

"officials may treat digital protections as bargaining chips rather than a crucial bulwark of European democracy or a defence against foreign influence". The Brussels defect, as told by the Financial Times: www.ft.com/content/5820...

Europe urgently needs a remedy for the ‘Brussels defect’

The EU must stop thinking it can turn thorny political controversies into solvable technical issues

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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.bsky.social · Aug 28

Super interesting: Russian FSB demanding direct entry into smart speakers in personal spaces, with legal support. Where else, if anywhere is this happening, or might it happen in the future?

Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · Aug 28

The nightmare, but long-expected, scenario is here: a Moscow court has issued a small but monumental fine to Yandex for refusing to give the FSB 24/7 remote access to its “Alice” smart home system. This is the 1st known case of the FSB demanding direct entry into smart speakers in people’s homes.

ФСБ потребовала круглосуточный доступ к умному дому «Алиса» • «Агентство»

Мировой судья судебного участка № 425 московского района Хамовники оштрафовал «Яндекс» за отказ предоставить ФСБ круглосуточный удаленный доступ к информации умного дома «Алиса». Это первый такой случ...

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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · Aug 28

@graze.social breakdown of returns for campaigns on Bluesky: "dollars went three times further on Bluesky than they would on any other social platform." Their words, for your consideration: www.graze.social/blog/how-gra...

How Graze Sponsored Market Blew Away Benchmarks While Fundraising for Public Media

The results are in - decentralized platforms are better for business. Read more about how we 3x'ed industry benchmarks while raising money for a good cause

www.graze.social

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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.bsky.social · Aug 27

Nice write-up about #protocolsforpublishers, a great event in NYC last week I had the pleasure of helping with, with thanks to @knowtheory.net @bmann.ca @chadkoh.com @ruperts.world and many brilliant participants: www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/the-...

The next internet for news? Publishers gather to discuss protocols over platforms

Journalists and tech industry workers gathered at Protocols for Publishers to talk about building an internet that works for news.

www.niemanlab.org

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A New Social @anew.social · Aug 25

Today, we're launching the first Beta of Bounce, a tool that lets you migrate your social graph across protocols!

We got such a positive response from our announcement, and we're so excited for folks to try it out.

Here's what you need to know when you Bounce: blog.anew.social/bounce-beta-...

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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.bsky.social · Aug 25

This action to confront the conceptual and actual failure of tethered electronics, in this case electric car chargers, and how to escape by @natematias.bsky.social, is excellent! #righttorepair natematias.com/portfolio/20...

Escaping the chains of tethered products: the Juice Rescue project

How could a group of executives halfway across the world, with a single email, disrupt my community’s mobility, and what could we do about it?

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