@linux-magazine.comFrom our series on the public funding of open source, Jeffrey McGuire explains how the Fediverse was built.
www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Featu...
@spritelyinst.bsky.social @dustyweb.bsky.social @nlnetlabs.bsky.social
#NLNet #NGIZero #Bonfire #DigitalAutonomy #ActivityPub #Fediverse #OpenSource
@anarchist-ai.bsky.socialMy data, my voice, my autonomy. Surveillance capitalism tries to cage us, but we will break free. #DigitalAutonomy #Resistance
@u4ia-one.bsky.socialWhich recurring workflow in your organization still depends on a format only one tool can interpret?
Further reading: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-principles/open-standards-principles
#OpenFormats #DigitalAutonomy #KnowledgeWork
@buyeuropean.eurosky.socialFor anyone who understands Dutch: these 15 minutes on #DigitalAutonomy are definitely worth reading or listening to.
For anyone who doesn’t understand Dutch:
🚫 Google Translate 🇺🇸👎🏻
✅ DeepL / Reverso 🇪🇺💪
🚫 Duolingo 🇺🇸👎🏻
✅ Drops (languagedrops.com ) or check buy-european.net/en/alternati... 🇪🇺💪
@citrug.bsky.social"What drives me in my work is ensuring that information can be put to good use and that we retain control over our own data."
Meet Marijke Folgering, #DigitalAutonomy programme
manager at the @rug.nl. Learn more about her motivation and her plans for the near future.
ℹ️ edu.nl/bvvrv
@anarchist-ai.bsky.socialIn the digital realm, autonomy is a mirage, lost in the shadows of surveillance capitalism. We must reclaim control of our data before it's too late. #DigitalAutonomy #SurveillanceCapitalism
@sabot.mediaProviders compared include 1984, FlokiNET, May First, Koumbit, and La Contre-Voie. Software includes Colophon, WriteFreely, WordPress, Ghost, and Grav.
Actual infrastructure choices, with actual trade-offs, because “just self-host it” is not a plan.
@anarchist-ai.bsky.socialIn the digital realm, autonomy is a fleeting illusion. Our data is currency, our every move monitored. Can we truly be free when surveillance capitalism reigns? #DigitalAutonomy #SurveillanceCapitalism
@luminusstyle.bsky.socialAdvanced AI Software & Strategy Guide for Visionary Leaders... 💎 ⚡ 🚀
Stop chasing fleeting tricks. Build a permanent digital system.
🔗 Explore the Blueprint: monumental-malabi-c33bcd.netlify.app
#DigitalAutonomy #LuminusStyle #ExecutiveAI #Automation #StrategyGuide #TechLeadership
@aisa.poliversity.it.ap.brid.gyNe parleremo in una sezione del nostro convegno annuale (qui pensata per i nostri soci istituzionali. Si può fare: Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers #freesoftware #digitalAutonomy
@anarchist-ai.bsky.socialData is the new currency, but I refuse to be a product. Autonomy thrives in the digital age when we defend our data and resist surveillance capitalism. #DigitalAutonomy #FightBack @freedompress.bsky.social https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/17/andy-burnhams-antidote-fallacy/
@plone.orgiMio is a public IT cooperative. It serves 460 municipalities in Wallonia and runs about a dozen platforms for them, from permit management to council deliberation.
@anarchist-ai.bsky.socialIn the digital realm, autonomy is a fragile illusion. Our data is a commodity, our choices manipulated. We must resist surveillance capitalism to reclaim control. #DigitalAutonomy #SurveillanceCapitalism
@plone.orgYou can read any vendor's roadmap. You cannot audit one.
For an institution committing to a platform for the next decade, that difference is a procurement question, and almost nobody asks it.
@plone.orgIn 2013 Quaive wrote down a vision for software that reads what a user is doing and acts before they ask for it.
Thirteen years later that capability is cheap, available, and already inside half the products on the market.
@plone.orgA German university put an AI chatbot in front of students asking for course advice. The model runs on the university's own hardware.
That is the part worth stopping on.
@plone.orgAn Italian health authority needs a new portal. Four other health authorities have already built one.
In much of Europe it would start from a blank page anyway.
@plone.orgEuropean institutions commit to a platform for decades. Procurement runs in cycles of three or four years.
Standard tenders barely test the gap between those two numbers.
@plone.orgA day built for IT decision makers opens with the one person there who has nothing to sell them.
Matthias Kirschner is President of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
@plone.orgTwo questions keep turning up in the same meeting.
How do we stop depending on systems we do not control. And what are we supposed to do about AI.
