Michael Foster

@michael.eurosky.social

Co-founder @newsmast.bsky.social.
Discovering things, paths, people, ideas.
Driving change through the social web.
“A secret new internet you may not have heard of, a paradise to which we may all yet escape.”

https://newsmastfoundation.org

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Growth has slowed on the open social web. We can’t win fighting Big Tech on their own turf: we need to move sideways. New ‘holdfasts’ (see @kissane.myatproto.social) won’t grow from protocols alone: we need to build communities.

Some paths emerging here:

www.blog-pat.ch/moving-sidew...

blog-pat.chMoving sideways: paths to growth on the social webNetwork resilience on open social networks is emergent, writes Laurens Hof. Riffing on this, and looking beyond the recent DDoS attacks, the feeling of becoming and emergence is what I love about dece...
@cypherhippie.bsky.socialReposted by @michael.eurosky.social

‘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

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🖖

audreyt.orgループを、閉じる ——DD2026 · オードリー・タンAudrey Tang's closing remarks at Digital Democracy Summit 2026, with written answers to all 266 Slido questions across 18 rooms: a receipt anyone can inspect.
en.wikipedia.orgSalutogenesis - Wikipedia
@timothychambers.netReposted by @michael.eurosky.social

"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...

substack.comThe Next Information War Is Already HereAI systems are consuming false, misleading, and manipulated content from across the internet - and increasingly presenting it as authoritative answers to millions of users.
@newsmastfoundation.orgReposted by @michael.eurosky.social

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" 🕺

A graphic showing a man wearing glasses, Michael Foster, in a cut out neon style frame on a background of neon stars. Around the image, words read: D Web Camp. BLN. Newsmast Foundation. Michael Foster. 2026-08-09 12:00-12:30 CET. Black Holes & Day-Glo Symphonies: Onboarding Communities to the Social Web.
@samvie.eurosky.socialReposted by @michael.eurosky.social

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!

atmo.rsvpat:// DWeb Camp BerlinDWeb 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
@michael.eurosky.social

👕 Thirty t-shirts with a top secret design. 🔊 A Bose S1 Pro+. 👩‍🎤 A Lily Allen track. 🐬 A TikTok meme. ⚫ And one black hole. Potentially more hazardous than the spray cans? Cont...

@michael.eurosky.social

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...

Neon Day-Glo spray paint - four cansPink megaphone
@rude1.blacksky.teamReposted by @michael.eurosky.social

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

Waag FutureLab, Commons Network, Blacksky group photo
Blacksky Algorithms@blackskyweb.xyz

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

JD at the Blacksky booth smiling at visitors; wearing a “no more invites to the cookout” teeJD posing in front of the Blacksky booth; wearing a “no more invites to the cookout” teeThe “Blacksky” sign
@rude1.blacksky.teamReposted by @michael.eurosky.social

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

Rudy smiling and posing with Millie; one of the aunties and organizers of We The People NYC.Rudy, Relly Rebel and a neighborhood organizer chopping it up during We The People NYC distro
Rudy Fraser@rude1.blacksky.team

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 ✊🏾

We The People NYC group photo
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