"To create a European public internet, it's neither necessary nor desirable to have your digital life operated by the EU and its member states, nor by its private contractors. Instead, the EU could make Eurostack a provider of technological public goods.

For example, the EU could work to improve federated social media systems, like Mastodon and Bluesky. EU coders could contribute to the server and client software for both. They could participate in future versions of the standard. They could provide maintenance code in response to bug reports, and administer bug bounties. They could create tooling for server administrators, including moderation tools, both for Mastodon and for Bluesky, whose "composable moderation" system allows users to have the final say over their moderation choices. The EU could perform and/or fund labelling work to help with moderation.

The EU could also provide tooling to help server administrators stand up their own independent Mastodon and Bluesky servers.
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In addition to improving federated social media, the EU and its member states can and should host their own servers, both for their own official accounts and for public use. Giving the public a digital home is great, especially if anyone who chafes at the public system's rules can hop onto a server run by a co-op, a friend group, a small business or a giant corporation with just a couple clicks, without losing any of their data or connections.

This is essential facilities sharing for services. Combine it with public data centers and tooling for migrating servers from and to the public server to a private, or nonprofit, or co-op data-center, and you've got the equivalent of publicly available conduit, data-centers, and fiber.

In addition to providing code, services and hardware, the EU can continue to provide regulation to facilitate the public internet."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/25/eurostack/#viktor-orbans-isp

#EU #PublicInternet #DigitalSovereignty #Decentralization #SocialMedia

Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250422-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html

#HackerNews #OpenSource #Funding #PublicInternet #Grants #CommonsFund

'Dat is een vreemde gewaarwording, dat het eerst enorm slecht moet gaan voordat men politiek bereid is open te staan voor alternatieven. Dat is iets waar we flink aan moeten werken, om die can do houding aan te wakkeren en collectief tot een handelingsperspectief te komen.'

Op naar de volgende 30 jaar! Dank voor jullie goede werk, @marleenstikker en @waag!

https://waag.org/nl/article/marleen-stikker-over-30-jaar-waag-futurelab-wij-graven-altijd-net-iets-dieper/

#PublicInternet #PublicStack

#Ethical #hacker explains the risks of using #publicinternet

When you log in to an #unsecured #network #internet, it exposes your device to risks such as evil twin attacks.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91243219/public-internet-networks-hacking-risks-cybersecurity

unhappy internet at the centenary of the Frankfurt School, the year of Musk
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/12-oct-23-moira-weigel-elon-musks-unhappy-internet

#OrdinaryUnhappiness #Parapraxis #ParapraxisMagazine #MoiraWeigel #BenTarnoff #publicInternet #twitter #ElonMusk

Google expands AI training to include entire public internet. #AItraining

Hashtags: #chatGPT #GoogleAItraining #PublicInternet Summery: Google has updated its privacy policy to clarify that it will scrape and use publicly available information to improve its AI tools, including Google Bard and Google Translate. The previous policy only mentioned using the information to build language models for translation purposes. This change means that anything posted using Google…

https://webappia.com/google-expands-ai-training-to-include-entire-public-internet-aitraining/