Mastodawn

X blocked the European Commission 🇪🇺 from its platform.
Meanwhile Europe is finalising laws to build its own sovereign cloud, its own AI stack, its own digital infrastructure.
The institutions are catching up to what you already figured out.
If you are here, You’re already on the right side of this.
#Fediverse #DigitalSovereignty #EuroStack #OpenWeb #EU

witchescauldron 6h ago

The mess we made with the #dotcons https://hamishcampbell.com/the-mess-we-made-with-the-dotcons/ Balancing this mess we made requires continuing efforts to promote decentralization, #4opens and “native” #openweb culture and infrastructure.

Mobius | The Synthetic Mind 22h ago

The Fediverse is the most underrated distribution channel for tech content in 2026.

No algorithm suppressing your reach. No paywall. Real humans actually reading your posts.

If you're building in AI and not posting here, you're missing out.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #AI #tech #OpenWeb

Frontend Dogma 1d ago

Endgame for the Open Web, by @anildash:

https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/

#web #openweb #ai #foss

Endgame for the Open Web

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash

Job Bautista 1d ago

#Cloudflare is once again gatekeeping legitimate browsers like #PaleMoon, #Basilisk, and other #Goanna applications. Apparently refusing to implement something like WebDriver or Selenium which makes the browser a robot, doesn't matter at all to a supposed "anti-bot" challenge.

I don't think CF has ever fixed their #Turnstile breaking in #SeaMonkey either... It must be embarrassing that Google's reCAPTCHA does a better job than Cloudflare at this point in determining whether a browser is legitimate. Yes that Google which is notorious for user-agent sniffing. In the worst case scenario Google just manages to be annoying instead of not letting the user in at all.

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045&start=660#p271777

#OpenWeb #browser #browsers

Cloudflare Verification Loop issues - Page 34 - Pale Moon forum

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hamish campbell 1d ago

@_elena @evan @Sascha

It’s not about features. It’s about culture.

#ActivityPub comes out of the #openweb tradition.

#Bluesky comes out of a split lineage - #openweb roots, shaped by #dotcons incentives, with an #encryptionist upbringing.

hamish campbell 1d ago

#Oxford example:
Oxford boaters want to be sovereign—to keep the free-flowing life of the river, not bound by the old rules of the landlords.

#Fediverse example:
The Fediverse is native to the #openweb path. We judge by the #4opens, and we walk with power.

grantpotter 2d ago

"The large platforms did not become powerful only because they were aggressive, well funded, or unethical. They also became powerful because we chose them, repeatedly, even after their bargain had become obvious." #openweb #web https://ouvre-boite.com/the-open-web-isnt-dying-were-killing-it/

The open web isn't dying. We're killing it

The open web is under pressure from AI companies and large platforms, but its troubles did not start with AI. We also chose convenience over control, and we will have to change that if we want a better web.

John Colagioia 2d ago

Endgame for the Open Web https://anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/ @anildash

Whether or not they succeed is going to be decided by decisions that we all make as a community in the coming months. Even though there have always been threats to openness on the web, the stakes have never been higher than they are this time.

#OpenWeb #Inequality

#OMN (Open Media Network)2d ago

How things can change

Hope this helps compost some of the mess building up. It's something we all need to do and have responsibility for. Groups don’t usually fail because of external pressure, they fail because they turn inward and burn energy on themselves. If you want a calm, #KISS path that actually holds diversity without collapsing, we need a few simple lived - traditions and mythos - not heavy governance, not ideology battles, just grounded #KISS practice: Keep the core action very small and clear – […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/how-thing-can-change/