Mastodawn

Mastodon friends! 🇪🇺 I’m expanding my digital presence to advocate for a stronger, tech-independent Europe. I've just joined Bluesky via Eurosky!

If we want a sovereign EU as a global power, we must own our digital public square. Let’s build a united European network. Follow me there and consider converting your handle to Eurosky to secure our digital borders! 🚀

Let's connect: https://bsky.app/profile/nox.eurosky.social

#DigitalSovereignty #Eurosky #EUPolitics #Bluesky #EU #Europe

Stefan Alvemo 🇪🇺 (@nox.eurosky.social)

🇸🇪 Ett suveränt EU som maktfaktor med fokus på handel, digital styrka och ett robust försvar. Sverige som drivkraft. 🇬🇧 A sovereign EU as a global power. Focus on trade, tech and a robust defense. Strong nations in a united EU.

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Stefan Alvemo 🇪🇺Feb 28

@ikuturso @mastodonmigration I appreciate the pushback! You're right that Eurosky relies on Bluesky's infrastructure today. But the core idea is long-term portability. By securing our data on a European PDS and our identities via DIDs, we are no longer owned by a corporate platform. If the company changes, we seamlessly move our network elsewhere. It’s a pragmatic first step: we get the mass reach of Bluesky today, with a built-in exit strategy for tomorrow. 🇪🇺

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ikuturso 🇪🇺Feb 28

@StefanAlvemo I don't see it as much of a first step and because there are pragmatic real solutions like joining a Mastodon instance in Europe.

It seems actively harmful when I see tons of people being misled and thinking they're somehow now fully digitally sovereign.

The "exit strategy" thing is a whole another can of worms even more broadly speaking. A new PDS definitely doesn't meaningfully make that idea more feasible in any significant way versus being on the US company's PDS.

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ikuturso 🇪🇺Feb 27

@StefanAlvemo unfortunately Eurosky seems mostly counterproductive to this goal. The biggest question is how much is a PDS going to do for digital sovereignty on the BSky network?

Not much so if people get a false sense of having done something when they practically achieved nothing by moving over to that, it's not a good thing at all.

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Mastodon Migration Feb 28

@ikuturso @StefanAlvemo

Precisely. Eurosky is simply a Bluesky dependent satellite. Your post is misleading.

Eurosky may someday be an independent AT Protocol entity, but it is not currently, and it seems a long way from being so.

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Dźwiedziu Feb 28

@StefanAlvemo
How tech independence is gained by using a technology that is externally dependent?