I totally support the movement towards European digital sovereignty. At the moment the focus seems to be predominantly on cloud service providers. For digital autonomy, that's definitly what we should do.

However, there is still the privacy issue: ditching M365 for (e.g.) Nextcloud while running a Windows machine still leaves a massive attack vector open! Especially given Microsoft's crush on agentic AI. Companies+government should go Linux.

#bigtech #digitalsovereingty #eu #strategy #linux

Looking for a hosted code repository system located in Canada? Came across the linked platform today. I have no personal experience with it... yet.

https://about.worktree.ca/

#DigitalSovereingty #Canada #Linux #RunBSD #HomeLab #SelfHosting

This article really hits the mark and relates to my last two reflections: "The tolerance problem of the tech scene: Taking people with you instead of lecturing them," by @kuketzblog.

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/das-toleranzproblem-der-tech-szene-menschen-mitnehmen-statt-belehren/

(Thanks for sharing, @Trifisch !)

It's in German, but I think any automatic translator on your favorite browser can do the job.

When I joined the @okfn community several years ago, I resonated with one of its principles: "Let's be pragmatic, not fanatic."

#Dialogue #OpenSource #Diday #DigitalSovereingty #Tolerance #Fediverse

Publiquei hoje no #GGN uma curta análise sobre o bloqueio do WhatsApp na Rússia e suas implicações para a soberania digital de todos os países.

https://jornalggn.com.br/internacional/o-caso-russo-e-o-dilema-da-soberania-digital-dos-estados-nacionais-por-james-gorgen/

#digitalsovereingty #internetgovernance

RE: https://mastodon.social/@seboslaw/116053607853749962

If public funding is being considered for a for-profit model, a robust and transparent technical assessment should be conducted first, including an evaluation of whether the AT Protocol is truly more scalable than ActivityPub.

I disagree that the two are technically complementary. Currently, BlueSky operates as a largely centralized platform, allowing it to avoid many of the governance and moderation challenges inherent to decentralized networks.

Its growth, with ~40 million users, shows that strong product design, marketing, and familiar timelines attract nontechnical audiences. This is a lesson in usability and investment, not necessarily a protocol advantage.

If they complement each other, it is politically and socially, not architecturally. One has capital and media visibility. The other has a live, interoperable ecosystem in which public institutions are already participating.

Public funding decisions should be made accordingly.

#ATProtocol #ActivityPub #BlueSky #Mastodon #EU #DigitalSovereingty

RE: https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116053354839102261

If Mastodon is chronically underfunded, shouldn't we discuss serious public investment in its development, including its usability and design?

Twitter was purchased for $43 billion and is now widely used to amplify disinformation and polarization through hate speech and an extremist agenda.

How much are we willing to invest in a bold, interoperable, European alternative that strengthens democratic discourse?

If projects like “EuroSky” move forward, will public funding be diverted there, instead of supporting and scaling the Fediverse?

Mastodon already exists and has millions of users, official EU servers, and institutional accounts. Why start from scratch when what works can be strengthened?

Cc @EUCommission @HennaVirkkunen @mellifluousbox @alexandrageese @Gargron

#EU #OpenSource #DigitalSovereingty #Mastodon #BlueSky

RE: Cory Doctorow's keynote at #39c3 ; if you (the reader of this toot) are working on an initiative to create a core infrastructure service (e.g. CloudFlare, Office365, AWS) that enables #digitalsovereingty free of influence from the United States, I want in. I'm an enterprise architect with over 20 years of #FOSS experience, and I've been leading teams as an executive since 2015. Let's #deenshittify the internet. #getfedihired

Check out the keynote here: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

https://www.heise.de/en/news/How-a-French-judge-was-digitally-cut-off-by-the-USA-11087561.html

#DigitalSovereingty