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W Social: Europas X-Alternative wirft so manche Frage auf | 1E9.community
Das Social Network W Social soll eine unabhängige europäische Alternative zu X werden – sicherer, offener und stärker an europäischen ...

Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
#WSocial will open up their beta program today… and I have a SCOOP for you: it appears that they have quietly gone closed-source! This is ironic, considering that the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu just unveiled their Tech Sovereignty Package, emphasizing the importance of #OpenSource. And yet they have migrated their main ATproto accounts to W Social - whose code can no longer be inspected! My full article - with a great analysis by @aral@mastodon.ar.al: 🔗: https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/ #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #BigTech
Un démantèlement d’ampleur des lois environnementales est en cours en Europe, alerte un collectif d’ONG
Vingt mesures de dérégulation ou d’affaiblissement du droit de l’environnement ont été adoptées depuis 2024 au niveau de l’Union européenne ; trente nouveaux reculs sont en cours de discussion, ont comptabilisé les organisations non gouvernementales.
Home - Open science monitoring initiative - OSMI
News All news OSMI is an original idea from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, the Université de Lorraine and Inria. Other initiators of OSMI include Unesco, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, PLOS, and SPARC Europe. The initiative is coordinated by Université de Lorraine, SPARC Europe and Unesco. To receive the latest news from OSMI, ...

Einzelheiten zur Initiative | Europäische Bürgerinitiative
annotations: La capitulation de l'Europe
Blog de sciences économiques et sociales de Martin Anota. Traductions, revues de presse.
Kann Eurosky den Europäern endlich die Kontrolle über ihre Social-Media-Daten zurückgeben?
Eurosky startet ein nutzereigenes Social-Media-Ökosystem in Europa und fordert Big Tech mit DSGVO-konformen Datenservern auf Basis des AT-Protokolls heraus. Privatsphäre und Wahlfreiheit für Alltagsnutzer.

W-Social: What does sovereignty mean for social media? – Open Future
The European Commission’s move to W-Social frames it as a European alternative to X, but its closed-source code and reliance on Bluesky’s infrastructure show that sovereign social media requires open infrastructure—not European ownership alone.

Scaling sustainable social networks in the public interest | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Brussels office - European Union
This policy paper identifies five key challenges for scaling a public-interest social web: infrastructure, governance, funding, attractiveness, and public mandate. It outlines a roadmap for overcoming these challenges and building the Open Social Web Alliance into a relevant force within months — starting in Germany.

Built, Owned & Stewarded in Europe
Steward & Employee Ownership keep mission, capital and talent rooted in Europe. We're asking the EU to make it an option.

Social Media: jetzt ist Europa dran! - Das Netz ist politisch
(see Social Media: Now It’s Europe’s Turn! for the english version)

W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty | Hacker News
And weirdly, there was never a peep about this in the press - while the W Social launch was on national news and a bunch of high-profile EU politicians immediately joined. What's going on here?
W Social – Public Beta Launch
LaSuite.coop
La boite à outils libres, open source et modulable pour les organisations collaboratives !
@wsocial.eu und @eurosky.social wollen alles besser machen: keine Bots, keine Desinformation und nur europäische Technologie. Doch was taugen sie wirklich? Mein Mini-Scoop vorweg: Der ehemalige Armeechef Thomas Süssli sitzt im "Advisory Board" von @wsocial.eu THREAD

Conflict Systems
Spaces as Layers - Nick's Blog
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Axioms for Organizers by Fred Ross, Sr. | Fred Ross, Sr.
The Tyranny of Stuctureless
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