European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source....
An article dispelling myths about W Social, the new European platform that aims to rival X: it is a fork of Bluesky that shares many similarities with Eurosky and requires government ID to sign up....
Looking back at a year of FOSS activism, spurred by political events....
setting sights on my next self-hosting adventure: liberating my media library...
Let's normalize sharing the tech we use - and the platforms we purposefully avoid. I'm sharing my tech stack in this post to let you judge for yourselves if I'm "walking the talk" when I discuss resistance to Big Tech....
Technological platforms are not neutral. If we truly want to resist the digital coup that is currently under way, we need to normalize the use of free, open source solutions....
