Today I attended a workshop about an upcoming campaign urging our public institutions to do the right thing: join the universal social network, #PublicActivityActivityPub or #PAAP for short ;-)

@victor hosted the session and we had several people from cultural institutions, universities, schools and the open data lab like @basicavisual

A positive way to introduce the fediverse and share some strategies, like #POSSE and RAP.

There's much work to do and to share, as together we always know more, so this was a start to continue conversations.

https://publicactivityactivitypub.net/

The @EUCommission just released a statement positioning open source as central to #Europe’s #TechSovereignty.

We couldn’t agree more. #OpenSource is critical to a robust and independent society.

Here’s our full statement: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/europes-new-tech-strategy-puts-open-source-front-and-centre/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenWeb #DigitalSovereignty

Are you still on Elon Musk’s X?

If the answer is yes, ask yourself why.

Are you really okay with a billionaire meddling in your national politics manufacturing outrage and monetising rage?

X has become nothing more than an open sewer and pretending otherwise is self deception.

#twitter

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/04/keir-starmer-elon-musk-division-henry-nowak

I dunno, *can* we build #European alternatives to #Facebook and co?
The #EU community managers are at it again with promoting the EU instance on #Mastodon!

PS: the community management team (that's my team) are up for an award. Any chance you'd give us a vote? Project 32 on this link: https://enonet.eu/survey/index.php/227332?lang=en

Very disappointing news from #Brussels today about the Tech Sovereignty Package

"It is pretty clear that #Tech #Sovereignty for #Europe does not actually mean social networking sovereignty in any meaningful sense, judging by how the #EC is allocating the money."

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr165-fediverse-news-for-may-2026/

#digitalpolicy #social #opensocialweb #fediverse #socialsovereignty #TechSovereignty #SovereigntyPackage

Researchers found that writers using biased AI agents to auto-complete suggestions had their sociopolitical values shifted without their knowledge it was happening.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw5578

We worry about cognitive capture, what the LLMs of big tech are doing to our ability to identify and think through problems. We should be equally worried about them making a grab for our ethos, what we care about, and at population scales.

#ai #bigtech #ethics