Bought tickets to the @publicspaces conference on June 5th. Looking forward to learning more about #digitalautonomy Meet like-minded people and get some inspiration.

@elsua54
3. Words like #DigitalAutonomy usually RELY ON OTHERS to do it *for themselves* and aside from a few changes I don't know you can help others to manage their own #life or #undo #addictions or do the #betterpractices stuff other than give them time to catch on to it and a few #tips or #handholding posts / principles etc.

How could you speed up just general tips or convert them on to somethign else?

@collective_truth Yeah, I deleted everything. I only backed up the posts from my 21 year old blog (While I look for a new home for it within the EU) & my Flickr pictures. A clean start. A hard reset, while I try to figure out where to next ...

RE: daily work, I steward, facilitate and look after a worldwide collective of knowledge practitioners with in-depth knowledge and expertise about the underpinnings of both #DistanceWorking and #DigitalAutonomy

(See this toot ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป https://mastodon.social/@elsua54/116296951766624150)

@collective_truth Individually, at this point in time, I don't. I deleted all of my online life in December last year. I'm starting from scratch now, trying to apply what I've learned in the past 30 years to do better. All in all, as an effort to not repeat the same mistakes that brought me to late 2025 to delete everything and start again.

As a group, I'm part of a collective working on exactly this topic of #DigitalAutonomy & #SovereignByDesign right as we speak.

@danalinssen

Finally, great to hear. In general it seems hard to have people understand the difference between convienient locked-in platforms where you pay with your autonomy and privacy, compared to the open protocols the internet is build upon. We nevertheless do our best supporting the latter.

For example with explanations like this to our Dutch organizations, encouraging them to embrace the 'good' protocols as well: https://nietzonder.nl

#DigitalAutonomy #surveillancecapitalism

Niet Zonder! - Geen giftige socials zonder alternatief!

Geen Instagram zonder Mastodon, geen WhatsApp zonder Signal, geen Youtube zonder Peertube

NietZonder.nl
Yes, I'm late to the party, I know. But right now, I feel like a king: I have created my first usable container image from scratch and published both the source and resulting image on my own Forgejo server ๐Ÿ˜Ž

From now on, I can install a complete OpenLDAP server with only one command. This is only version 0.0.1 and needs more work to be useful for others, but it's a foundation on which I can build. Next step is to create my own schema file, because why not. I have special needs, so to speak ๐Ÿ˜

This LDAP server will be the source of truth for the Authentik server that follows, and the set of containers that will form a complete e-mail environment with all bells and whistles you can think of, and let's not forget Nextcloud, PowerDNS and Hubzilla.

It's almost time to say goodbye to my old server that has all software manually installed, and move to a modern setup where everything comes in its own container(s) and automatically plugs itself into Trรฆfik, my reverse proxy.

I'm a happy self-hoster ๐Ÿ˜Ž

#selfhosting #DigitalAutonomy #Docker #OpenLDAP #Forgejo #PowerDNS #Hubzilla #Traefik #Nextcloud
Forgejo โ€“ Beyond coding. We forge.

Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

In my lab, we have been using NextCloud for more than a decade. It stores manuscripts, Omics datasets, and theses of more than 50 students and researchers. You can self-host #NextCloud on your server or any provider. Thank you, @nextcloud

#DigitalAutonomy #PublicScience #FOSS

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub26-winter/

"Itโ€™s entirely possible to run a reliable, capable, professional digital stack mostly from European infrastructure"

For those interested, here's an interesting & rather useful blog post ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe

"Digital sovereignty isnโ€™t about paranoia. Itโ€™s about being conscious about your infrastructure, where you decide who holds your data, who can reach it, and what happens when politics shift" ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป

#SovereignByDesign #DigitalAutonomy #DigitalSovereignty

How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe

On digital sovereignty, and why European cloud is better than you think

To stay connected and be visible in #student life we are (still) on #instagram.

But the longer we stay, the harder it becomes to defend that choice.
It clashes with what we stand for as a #library: trustworthy information, #OpenScience, #DigitalAutonomy & student wellbeing.

We want to explore alternatives and open up the conversation about what responsible (online) #communication with students could and should look like.

Read our story and share your thoughts:
https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/a-university-library-on-instagram-we-want-to-leave-but-then-what

A university library on Instagram: We want to leave, but then what?

At the University of Groningen Library, we make deliberate choices about our digital presence. We moved to Mastodon and PeerTube, platforms that are part...

University of Groningen

RE: https://social.edu.nl/@wlaatje/116543008512013283

This is a great collection of position papers, interviews and articles on how #Dutch #HigherEducation organisations are preparing and taking steps towards more #DigitalAutonomy.

๐Ÿš€ https://communities.surf.nl/publieke-waarden/artikel/voor-dag-en-dau-22x-we-gaan-dit-samen-doen