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It's time to free social media from billionaire control. FreeOurFeeds.com Donate: https://gofund.me/2e144bae

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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · Jan 13

🌎 It’s time to reclaim social media.
Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives.

#FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative.

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Free Our Feeds

Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.

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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · 2d

Sharing a short writeup from a 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat, featuring our #eurosky project and the work of our friends at @germnetwork.com, among others: www.protocol.ai/blog/threads...

Threads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat

Key takeaways from the Cypherpunk Retreat, where 100 leading builders advanced privacy-tech coordination.

www.protocol.ai

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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · 13d

Also happy to see alternative economic models tested: cooperatives have a lot of potential for this kind of focused enterprise.

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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · 13d

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 · 13d

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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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.bsky.social · 16d

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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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 19d

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

Creating an Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) Directory Organization | Bluesky

The Bluesky Social app is built on an open network protocol that refers to each user by a unique Decentralized Identifier, or DID (a W3C standard). The most popular supported DID method was developed ...

docs.bsky.app

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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · 19d

Great news. Excited to hear details and to help if we can!

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Boris @bmann.ca · 21d

If anyone wants more done with private data - give to Blacksky.

If anyone wants more solid migration systems - give to Blacksky.

But also: Rudy can’t be our only wall.

Doing the hard work of setting up an entity (not just a friends PDS) is what we’re going to need.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 21d

voluntary, recurring, sliding scale subscriptions can be made here: opencollective.com/blacksky

Blacksky - Open Collective

Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.

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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · 22d

working on initial tech scoping and legal analysis for this. The legal side is quite complicated but we are getting there. Hoping to have something functional up by end of year if not sooner.

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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 22d

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…

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erikologic.bsky.social @erikologic.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hey, I'm with the Eurosky folks.
We would like to hear your experience of building for ATProto, what you like, and what your pain points are.

Especially interested in understanding the frictions in creating new ATProto experiences, but equally happy to hear from experienced devs and anyone else.

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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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cyberlaw.stanford.edu/a-primer-on-...

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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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · Sep 2

What if the internet as you know it is already gone? Concise summary of our state of affairs, and an argument for a shift structure and public investment, by @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy and Burcu Kilic: internet.exchangepoint.tech/big-tech-red...

Big Tech Redefined the Open Internet to Serve Its Own Interests

Big Tech companies have redefined terms like “openness” and “free expression” to support business models built on centralization and data monetization.

internet.exchangepoint.tech

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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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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · Aug 28

There is a lot to chew on with this. Different jurisdictions, overlapping jurisdictions, different app use cases with different tolerance thresholds for some kinds of expression, and a need for (legal) agreements to participate in a commons infrastructure, as liability is a thing.

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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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Devin Gaffney @devingaffney.com · Aug 22

The last few days of #ATProto_NYC have been good but this hack day is downright life affirming, I love this fucking community man

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Boris @bmann.ca · Aug 21

Today is an invite only #ProtocolsForPublishers day at the absolutely gorgeous space at School for Visual Arts (SVA)

We’re meeting with a small group of publishers to dig deep on needs and opportunities.

We’ll report out next week on general themes.

@unternet.co @graze.social @freeourfeeds.com

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Boris @bmann.ca · Aug 20

@ivansigal.bsky.social from @freeourfeeds.com kicked off our evening #ProtocolsForPublishers

Ivan Sigal on stage at Betaworks with a slide that says Protocols for Publishers - a crowd of people sit in seats

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Unternet @unternet.co · Aug 13

We'd like to take another opportunity to thank our sponsors for their support of #ProtocolsForPublishers

👏 @betaworks.com
🎉 @graze.social
🥳 @freeourfeeds.com

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Boris @bmann.ca · Aug 7

Thanks @genmon.fyi for sharing #ProtocolsForPublishers

We’ve got a really great group of people coming together to discuss emerging protocols. Let’s not get disintermediated this time?

Thanks @unternet.co @graze.social and @freeourfeeds.com for sponsoring!

Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · Aug 7

UK content publishing pals -- you should get across to NYC for the Protocols For Publishers summit, sharing what AI + various protocols (like MCP, ATProto etc) might mean for changing audience behaviour... and what to do about it

pfp.unternet.co

Protocols for Publishers

A series bringing together publishers, developers, and researchers to explore open protocols for a sustainable agentic web.

pfp.unternet.co

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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.bsky.social · Jul 30

Excellent to see end-to-end encryption messaging for open social and a great complement to atproto, thanks to @tessa.germnetwork.com and team at @germnetwork.com .

Germ Network @germnetwork.com · Jul 30

"While the user experience is simple enough, the technology behind it is not."

@techcrunch.com covers Germ DM x ATProto with a deep dive on our beta, co-founders, and plans.

techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/g...

Germ brings end-to-end encrypted messages to Bluesky | TechCrunch

Germ's new app lets users send end-to-end encrypted messages on Bluesky. TechCrunch speaks with the Germ founders to hear why they came up with the idea.

techcrunch.com

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Chad Kohalyk @chadkoh.com · Jul 28

🎟 Get your tickets here: pfp.unternet.co

Big thanks to @unternet.co @graze.social @freeourfeeds.com @betaworks.com

Protocols for Publishers

A series bringing together publishers, developers, and researchers to explore open protocols for a sustainable agentic web.

pfp.unternet.co

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Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me · Jul 28

🔐 Building ATProtocol apps? Then you know identity and authentication is the first real barrier to entry - and it's a pretty high bar.

The OAuth spec is a beast, and ATProtocol adds a lot of complexity too. That's why I'm running a masterclass this fall.

🧵 More details →

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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · Jul 23

And: "Open protocols are not some utopian project. They are poised to upend the status quo of social media, creating a more democratic digital world." @seabass.bsky.social argues that European policymakers should designate these social-networking frameworks as critical infrastructure

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