‘The loop closes when the people who spoke can see what their words changed’ This reminds me of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salutog... Comprehensibility Manageability Meaningfulness When we comprehend how to improve what is dear to our hearts, and when we have the capacity to keep going, stuff happens.

⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳@audreyt.org · 3d ago

Digital democracy is a garden we tend — together!🤝 ⿻Plurality, co-creation & #CivicAI🌱 are our tools. Humanism, love & trust are our soil.🫂 Read my Digital Democracy Summit 2026 closing remarks.🙏 ▶️ audreyt.org/dd Learn more.💡 civic.ai #LLAP🖖

"The Next Information War Is Already Here" - check out this article I co-wrote with @willrobinson1776.bsky.social ... we work to frame very big changes coming to the political digital landscape faster than most think. Up for any thoughts, notes, and appreciate all... substack.com/@willrobinso...

The Next Information War Is Already Here

AI systems are consuming false, misleading, and manipulated content from across the internet - and increasingly presenting it as authoritative answers to millions of users.

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Well, good morning. Would you like to also look at some beautiful seaweed and think about knowledge? www.wrecka.ge/holdfast-0-s...

Holdfast 0: Situating

This post introduces the written version of some optimistic and constructive thinking on knowledge in networks that I’ve been wrestling with since the end of last year.

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If you're heading to DWeb Camp this week, it shouldn't be hard to find @michael.eurosky.social just follow the neon glow 🙌 Or put on your brightest clothes and head over to his talk on Thursday at 12pm CET - "Black Holes & Day-Glo Symphonies: Onboarding Communities to the Social Web" 🕺

Tomorrow is travel day and opening of #Dwebcamp. Please come say hi, if you want to speak about European digital policy & advocacy, like #DMA #DSA #GDPR or about building alliances for digital commons. Please reach out if you have funding possibilities so we can change things in Europe and beyond!

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DWeb Camp is happening this year July 8th - 12th in Alte Holle, about an hour and a half drive outside of Berlin, Germany. Yes, there's actual camping! Are you part of the atproto community or interested in learning more, and planning to attend? Let us know you're coming by RSVP'ing, and get involved in coordinating in the community forum. DWeb Camp has lots of unconference spaces and time, we can bring many of our beloved stickers, and share what we're building. Note as well that Local-First Conf https://www.localfirstconf.com/ is right after, and after THAT we're considering a July 15th one day hack session in Berlin Community Forum coordination https://discourse.atprotocol.community/t/coordinating-around-dweb-camp-local-first-conf-and-possible-atproto-hack-day/847

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Here's what's going in my bag (and what's not) as I pack for "Black Holes & Day-Glo Symphonies" at #DWebCamp on Thursday: 🎨 Six cans of Day-Glo paint. Not allowed on the plane 😬 so fresh graffiti paint is shipping to Alte Holle. 📋 Three flipcharts. 📣 A pink Day-Glo megaphone. Cont...

The first era of Blacksky was building community. The next era of Blacksky is building coalitions. Blacksky to the world and back. 🌍 @jdot.blacksky.team

Blacksky Algorithms@blackskyweb.xyz · last mo.

Our very own @jdot.blacksky.team is representing Blacksky at the Dutch “Day of the Community Economy” (DE DAG VAN DE GEMEENSCHAPS-ECONOMIE) held at Oosterpark, Amsterdam In solidarity with the other initiatives envisioning new futures Learn more about the event here dagvandegemeenschapseconomie.nl

The fediverse icon. ⁂

Benjamin@benjamin.network · 2mo ago

Which logo would you put in front of your ATprotocol handle if you had to put it on a poster or website? Mostly I've seen people using the Bluesky logo, but now there's mu.social, @eurosky.social, @blackskyweb.xyz and others, all with their own logo's, it's starting to get confusing.

Once you’ve built your community, Your community can build. All power to the people. ✊🏾

Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂@rude1.blacksky.team · 2mo ago

Prerequisite: In order to build for community, you should first have at least one. By the people, for the people. Who the people? We The People ✊🏾

Businesses, governments, and citizens rely on American Big Tech social media. Can you afford to be held hostage by the whims of a US government in the information age? #EUSovereignty

💯 “Because everyone knows that everyone knows that they are publicly committing to these ideas, the cost of acting together is meaningfully lowered…And getting there is the achievement, and the most important part of the declaration, more than the principles or any individual commitment.”

Laurens@laurenshof.online · 2mo ago

new from me: on the European Social Stack declaration, and how decentralised social networks without owners need to build their own systems for coordination connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...

Wow - we are less than 100 users away from 10,000 on Find Out Social. Can you help us break 10k? Reply in the comments and I’ll send you the info to join us!

new from me: on this week's riots in Belfast, Musk, and European states openly declining to defend their own sovereignty. What does it even mean to build digital sovereignty infrastructure when states themselves don't want to be sovereign? connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...

FR#166 – No Change

Many people in Europe see the open social web as a path to digital sovereignty. This week demonstrated a problem: the assumption that European governments actually want to be sovereign.

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Porting the whole post over for the skyline bc it’s easy to misinterpret from the first half

Felix Hlatky@mellifluousbox.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2mo ago

After individually meeting @rose.bsky.team in April and @seboslaw in May, it felt great to meet both again with @rude1.blacksky.team at #pubconf2026 This is still a competitive situation. Our protocols and the incentives they create matter. Our backgrounds influence what we build. Our financing […]

🗣️🗣️🗣️ THE OPEN SOCIAL WEB IS THE LONG GAME If we win, it'll be for the next generations. Sit with that thought, move accordingly.

Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂@rude1.blacksky.team · 2mo ago

Many builders in the Open Social Web are discouraged by the lack of funding in the ecosystem, slow pace of feature development (e.g. private accounts), and “low” adoption relative to incumbents like Meta. In my keynote I emphasized multi-generational struggle & movement building. People who faced…

Many builders in the Open Social Web are discouraged by the lack of funding in the ecosystem, slow pace of feature development (e.g. private accounts), and “low” adoption relative to incumbents like Meta. In my keynote I emphasized multi-generational struggle & movement building. People who faced…

Vielen Dank @christianstoecker.de für die Erwähnung der „The European Social Stack Initiative“, an der ich mit @eurosky.social ebenfalls beteiligt bin.

Meinung: Technologiestandards: Europas geheime Superkraft - Kolumne

Wer schon einmal an einer Ladebuchse verzweifelt ist, weiß: Der falsche Stecker kann einem den Tag ruinieren. Hier liegt aber auch eine Chance für Europa, seine Souveränität zu verteidigen.

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Still can't quite believe this!!! Congrats to @sill.social and @blackskyweb.xyz for winning the Excellence Awards and to @anew.social, @dandelion.events, @stream.place, @leaflet.pub and Bonfire Networks for being recognised as Honourable Mentions. Let's keep pushing each other to build better!

Newsmast Foundation@newsmastfoundation.org · 2mo ago

We're the Grand Prize Winners at the inaugural #OpenSocialAwards 🥳🍾🥂 @newpublic.org @publicspaces.net

The European Social Stack declaration is a big step in bringing European players together - launched today thanks to the efforts of @michael.eurosky.social and Björn Staschen. Check it out and add join us european.social

Sherif EA@sherif.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

With @michael.eurosky.social @elenarossini.com @cubicgarden.com and Björn Staschen at the PublicSpaces conference

Huge congratulations to the winners of the first ever Open Social Awards @newsmastfoundation.org @blackskyweb.xyz and @sill.social

It was great meeting you Rudy! Congrats again about your powerful presentation on Blacksky and community building. It will stay with me for a long time.

Well, that was the first time I finished an open source / liberatory tech event by dancing to Dancing Queen. Into it - thank you to @newsmastfoundation.org for a great party.

Such a big deal. I was excited to be in the room - and what @newsmastfoundation.org, @blackskyweb.xyz, and @sill.social are doing really matters. These are all projects that solve real problems for real communities, aligned to the values of the open social web. Congratulations to all.

New_ Public@newpublic.org · 2mo ago

🏆 Congratulations to @newsmastfoundation.org, @sill.social, and @blackskyweb.xyz, the winners of the first ever Open Social Awards! 👏👏👏 New_ Public, @publicspaces.net, and @waag.org are proud to award them in recognition of their excellence and innovation on the open social web. newpublic.org/OSA

Huge huge huge congrats to @michael.eurosky.social & the @newsmastfoundation.org team for winning the Open Social Awards! And to the excellence award winners: @tylerjfisher.com for @sill.social & @rude1.blacksky.team & team for @blackskyweb.xyz! Couldn't imagine folks who deserve this more 👏

“The time for dialogue with these people is long gone.” @robin.berjon.com’s opening talk is a call to action to build collective power in opposition to extractive big tech. #pubconf2026

No lies told!

Guido X Jansen@gui.do · 2mo ago

Kickoff by @robin.berjon.com!

With @michael.eurosky.social @elenarossini.com @cubicgarden.com and Björn Staschen at the PublicSpaces conference

Here for the launch of the European Social Stack: “We [are moving] away from large monopolistic platforms with their authoritarian governance and editorial positions, and are joining forces to establish a diverse and resilient information infrastructure in Europe.” #pubconf2026 european.social

Just launched at Public Spaces in Amsterdam, The European Social Stack Open Declaration! A set of common principles agreed by complementary technology leaders 🫶 Read the declaration, add your signature, and share: european.social #EUSocialStack #Europe

Here's the call to action @newsmastfoundation.org is taking to @publicspaces.net It's time for a fresh start. Big dreams. In the Fediverse and the Atmosphere: Make connected community spaces our mission for the year ahead. Heading to PublicSpaces? Come find us. www.blog-pat.ch/connected-co...

Connected community spaces

This week the Newsmast team is heading to Amsterdam for Public Spaces, where the theme is Technology for Democracy. Here are three talking points - and one call to action - for the conference, the Ope...

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